The world of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age is one that has only grown in the years following the release of the first game in 2009. Since then, the series has gained multiple games, comics, web series, shows, you name it. The world of Thedas has only gotten richer with each entry, if a tad harder to find the origins of (if you'll forgive the pun).

With the ancient history of the series becoming all the more prominent with each entry, and much of that history spread across a plethora of different mediums, it's become hard to get a singular vision of what is and isn't important. Well strap in, because we're giving you a fast-tracked class in the history of Thedas.

Thedas is the known world in which the series 𒊎takes place, though not the entirety of it.

The Initial Settlement Of Thedas

The Elves And The Imperium

The history of Thedas begins with the Elves. They had first settled in the lands of Thedas long before any other race of beings had existed and created here their capital, Arlathan. The elves had an innate affinity with magic as the Spirit and Mortal realms had not yet been separated. To the Elves, to use magic was as natural as breathing. over the course of their time, they eventually came in contact with Dwarves and their underground kingdoms. They briefly warred, tho🔯ugh overall kept amꦫicable relations.

Over time, humans settled in the lands of Thedas, descended from the Nermomenians. Humans lived relatively isolated lives for a time, making small communities until various spirits, supposedly the Old Gods that are destined to become Archdemons, contacted them about how to control magic and about the true nature of the world. This spurred a degree of ambition in humanity, who went on to form grander civilizations.

In the periods during the human settlement of Thedas, the Elves had an internal civil war among those who fashioned themselves as gods. Fen'harel sealed away these tyrannical gods, creating the Veil to keep them away from the mortal realm. The natural consequence of this was the removal of magic from the Elves, something they had known for thousands of ye✨ars. At the same time, humanity had gone on to form the Tevinter Imperium, a king💯dom that still stands in the Dragon Age.

The pantheon of Elven gods was known as the Evanuris.

Convinced of their own victory, the Tevinter Imperium went to war with Arlathan. The elves, weakened by the loss of magic, and humanity, boosted by their communication with the Old Gods in the Fade, fought a bitter war. Humanity prevailed, and the already-ancient Elven civilization was literally buried, left to be forgotten while the Imperium claim🥃ed their land as thei🐲r own. A severe consequence of this was the enslavement of the Elves, the repercussions of which still stand.

Dwarves faced their own internal struggles and receded even deeper underground, though kept close ties with the Imperium where they could. Emboldened by their victory over the Elves, the Imperium stretches further afield, subjugating any and all native tribes they encounter, and inc💛orporating them into their empire. This continu﷽es for millennia, with various civil wars, independence movements and further conquests occurring.

The first collapse of Tevinter occurs at the height of their hubris. Already empowered by their belief in the Old Gods, they seek to enter the Fade and find them directly in hopes of attaining even more power. Yet they find nothing but demons and come back themselves corrupted. This marks the origins of the Darkspawn and the beginnings of the First Blight. The Grey Wardens are created, ♔Tevinter loses faith in their Old Gods, the Dwarven kingdoms are decimated but ultimately, the Archdemon is defeated.

In Chantry teaching, this was originally known as the Golden City, but became defiled after the Tevinter Magisters entered it, marking it as the Black City.

The Sacrifice Of Andraste

In lieu of a religion, other beliefs take hold. A woman came to the fore, Andraste. Born to the Alamarri tribe, she eventually married Maferath to unite their clans, though was subsequently kidnapped by the Imperium during a raid on her land. With only Maferath remaining, he negotiated the release of Andraste. During this time, Andraste claimed to have found faith in a new god, The Maker, and that it became her mission to spread his word and message 𝕴of freedom.

With the power of the Alamarri, Andraste and Maferath declared war against the Imperium and freed the Elven slaves they held. Yet victory after victory, Maferath became disillusioned. He left they had taken too much, too quickly, and felt shunned by the professing of faith in The Maker, with no respect for his own victories. In a fit of rage, he secretly betrayed Andraste to the Imperium, allowing the Archon Hessaria🌳n to take her and put her to death.

Yet when it came time for her funeral pyre, Hessarian took mercy. He pierced Andraste's heart and made her a martyr. He converted to belief in The Maker through his guilt and revealed Maferath's role in Andraste's betrayal. The lands conquered by and granted to Maferath for handing over Andraste splinter at this news, while the Imperium undergoes a new period of peace as it converts to Andrastianism.

The blade used to kill Andraste would later be called the Blade of Mercy, and appeared in a copycat murder centuries later 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:by the Antivan Crows.

Over time, despite various wars, the belief in Andrastianism spread across the length of Thedas until it was officially crowned a formal religion in Orlais with the founding of The Chantry.

The Origins Of The Chantry And The Creation Of Ages

With the birth of the Orlesian Chantry, Tevinter grew displeased. Andraste had been born there, faith in the Maker had thrived there, and now a nation that had once been within their borders claimed religious dominion over her. Yet they still shared the belief, so Tevinter petitioned Orlais to allow them to head the Chantry. While concessions were made, Orlais ultimately refused as Tevinter both allowed men to serve as priests, despite men betraying Andraste and also praised the usage of magic, wh🌳ich Andraste claimed should serve man, not control them.

As a result of these actions, the Imperium refused to recognise the Orlesian Divine and instead formed the Imperial Chantry. Over time, a Great Schism occurs between these two opposing factions in the form of Exalted Marches. The p﷽air remain split to this day, neither recognising the other and even use their own calendar syst✤em.

The Orlesian Chantry refers to the Divine of the Imperial Chantry as the Black Divine, in reference to the Black City.

With the crowning of Divine Justinia in Orlais, a new calendar was created - Ages. This first Age was called the Divine Age, and everything prior was known simply as the Ancient Age. Each Age lasts for 99 years, at which point the current Divine seeks a message from the M🗹aker on 🐷what the defining aspect of the following Age should be. The Ages are they currently exist are as follows:

• The Divine Age - named for the crowning of the first Divine.
• The Glory Age - named for the multiple successful Exalted Marches in loosening Tevinter control and subjugating the faithless Elves.
• The Towers Age - named for the completion of the Grand Cathedral of Val Royeaux
• The Black Age - named for their failures, such as the formation of the Imperial Chantry and loss of Alamarri lands, home of Andraste.
• The Exalted Age - named for the ongoing Exalted Marches against the Imperium.
• The Steel Age - named for the assassination of Queen Madrigal in a similar fashion to Andraste.
• The Storm Age - named for the united front that Orlais and Tevinter employ against the various Qunari invasions.
• The Blessed Age - named for the birth of Emperor Etienne of Orlais' twin sons.
• The Dragon Age - named for the re-emergence of the thought to be previously extinct dragons.

Officially, Thedas is now in its ninth Age with no signs of slowing the formation of new Ages. The divide between the Imperial and Orlesian Chantry is at its widest in the current Age, with their only united front being against the Qunari.

The Various Blights

Thedas has currently weathered five Blights. The First Blight occurred in a period before the current calendar, even before the formal practice of Andrastianism. Indeed, it was the p♈reachings of Andraste that led many to believe in a god after the devastation of the First Blight.

A Blight occurs when the Darkspawn, digging in the Deep Roads, uncovers the soul of an Old God. Upon finding this, it is born as an Archd𒀰emon, and a new Blight begins. The First Blight lasted for over a century as the world came to terms with just what this curse was, though it was subsequently quashed with the formation of th🍨e Grey Wardens.

It is presumed that the Blights will end when every Old God is discovered. As such, a maximum of seven Blights are assumed to be possible.

The Grey Wardens undertake a ritual wherein they drink tainted Darkspawn blood. If they live, then it becomes possible to sense the Darkspawn and the Archdemon, and can also sacrifice your ﷽life to kill it. Otherwise, the Archdemo✨n is night invincible. This is thus far how every Blight has ended.

Here is the full lis꧃t of Blights ༒and when they occurred.

• First Blight - Occurs in the Ancient Age, lasting 122 years and only ends with the formation of the Grey Wardens.
• Second Blight - Occurs in the Divine Age, and lasts for 90 years.
• Third Blight - Occurs in the Towers Age, and lasts only 15 years.
• Fourth Blight - Occurs in the Exalted Age, and lasts only 12 years.
• Fifth Blight - Occurs in the Dragon Age during the original game. Lasts less than a year.

The speed with which the Fifth Blight was handled led many to believe that it was not a Blight at all. Depending upon player choice, it is also possible for the soul of this particular Old God, Urthemiel, to live on in Morrigan's child.

The Tearing Of The Breach

Following the Blight, Thedas continues on as it did beforehand. With the Fifth Blight lasting less than a year, with was no more than a blip for every other nation. Only Ferelden was targeted, and it already had poor relations with most other nations, so the impact was largely ignored. Indeed, it took the very sky tearing open for Thedas to unite✅ once again.

In Dragon Age Inquisition, a short few years after the ending of the Fifth Blight, the sky is torn open and becomes known as the Breach. The current Divine, Justinia V, is killed in a dramatic explosion that reveals Corypheus, one of the ancient magisters that first entered the Fade and created the Darkspawn. This sparks international fe🧔ar, and a new Inquisition is fo🅺rmed, the last having formed in the years preceding the Chantry to put down heretics following the First Blight.

Corypheus, awakened after millennia asleep, has a singular goal - to return the Tevinter Imperium to its original glory. While ultimately defeated, he plunges the world into an event not unlike that of a Blight, albeit it for only a brief period. Ultimately however he is defeated, the leader of the Inquisition sealing the Breach with the combined power of Corypheus' orb and the Anchor on their hand. During this act, Corypheus is disintegrated and presum🅺ably pulled into the Fade once again.

The orb is eventually returned to Solas, who later reveals himself to be Fen'harel, the very figure that created The Veil separating the Mortal and Spirit Realms in the fi🐭rst place. He wishes to rectify his mistake and is now empowered enough through his orb to do so. Solas will tear down the Veil and unite the worlds of Mortal and Spir𓂃it once again.