- See also: Character: Sten
Codex text
"Either you have an enviable memory, or a pitiable life, to know nothing of regret."
The northern islands are remote: lush jungles that harbor cities rumored to be the most extraordinary ever built. These are the lands of the Qunari--lands that no foreign eyes ever see. Only the stories of the three Exalted Marches waged against the giants have reached the south... until the arrival of Sten.
The stoic giant in the cage was surely the strangest thing the people of Lothering had ever seen, until the Blight struck.
The Darkspawn Chronicles Codex Text
Sten was a soldier of the Beresaad, the vanguard of the Qunari. He was sent to Ferelden to investigate the threat of the Blight, but Sten and his brothers-in-arms were ambushed by darkspawn one night. Only Sten survived. He chose not to return to Par Vollen with his report, but lingered instead to fight the Blight, and to uncover the secrets of Ferelden's sweet, crumbly baked goods.