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.

Chronology
This is a rough listing of events in Thedas’ history that the people of the setting believe happened. They may be fact, legend, or contain elements of both.


 * Elvhenan, the home of the elves, covers much of Thedas.
 * The Elvhenan meet the Magisters of the Tevinter Imperium. The elves begin to lose their immortality and so isolate themselves from the humans.
 * The Imperium wages a successful war against Elvhenan and subjugated the elves. The Imperium becomes the largest and most powerful nation in Thedas.
 * A couple millenia before the present, a group of Magisters attempt to physically enter the Fade. Something goes wrong and they are transformed into darkspawn. The First Blight occurs.
 * The Deep Roads are overrun. The Grey Wardens are established and defeat the Blight.
 * Andraste leads a tribal horde against the Imperium, blaming them for the Blight. At the same time, the Imperium's elven slaves rebel. She is able to takes large parts of their southern land before being killed. The Imperium never recovers.
 * The elves are given the Dales as a second home land.
 * The Second Blight occurs. Hafter unites the Alamarri tribes and becomes the first Teyrn.
 * Calenhad unites the Clayne tribes into a single nation, becoming the first King of Ferelden.
 * Approximately 400 years before the present, the Fourth Blight occurs.
 * The Blessed Age begins.
 * The Orlesian Empire conquers Ferelden and rules it for almost a century. It is the most powerful nation in Thedas.
 * A dragon awakens and goes on a rampage.
 * The Dragon Age begins.
 * King Maric Theirin successfully rebels against Orlais and reestablishes Ferelden as an independent kingdom
 * Dragon Age, Year 40: The present day. The Fifth Blight begins.

Unknown
Here are important events that we cannot yet place on the timeline
 * An Orlesian Emperor founds the Chantry of Andraste.
 * The elves created a second elven homeland in the Dales, but the Chantry leads an Exalted March against it and conquers the people. The Dalish elves are created.