Timeline

The Chantry calendar measures time as a period of Ages. The current is the Dragon Age, while the period before was the Blessed Age. Each Age lasts approximately a century and there have been nine so far.

The First Age was marked by the First Blight. Time periods before the first age are called Ancient, so 400 years before the first Age would be -400 Ancient. This is equivalent to 800 TE by the Imperial reckoning or about 1,300 years before the present.

A new Age is named by the Divine according to some event or portent at the very end of the last one. The last portent was a dragon awakening and going on a rampage. This suggests an age full of violence and destruction.

The game starts at approximately 40 Dragon Age.