The Silent Plains are a desolate area on the southern borders of the Tevinter Imperium, with Nevarra laying further south and the Free Marches to the south-east. The Imperial Highway stretches crosses the region.
History[]
Historians have found signs of cities and settlements across the Silent Plains that were destroyed before the First Blight. They likely belonged to the Inghirsh mentioned in Threnodies 6. The Neromenians defeated the Inghirsh, made them chattel and claimed their lands.[1]
In -203 Ancient (992 TE) the area became the site of the titanic Battle of Silent Plains. Grey Wardens amassed a large force of Tevinter, Rivaini and Ciriane soldiers[2][3], men and dwarves[4] and slew the archdemon Dumat, the Dragon of Silence, ending the First Blight.[2] A third of all the armies of northern Thedas were lost to fighting.[5][6]
The Plains have still not recovered from the ravages of the First Blight and are now a gray, wind-blasted wasteland[7] filled with dust, fine as ash, and occasional rocks.[8] The land was so tainted in the wake of the battle that no plant would grow there a thousand years later, save for the rare felicidus aria, commonly known as the Silent Plains Rose.[9][10] There are stories of ghasts and wyverns stalking those who brave the area.[8] The Dalish have a legend of a clan that lived on the Silent Plains and its Keeper who encountered Fen'Harel in dreams. The Plains are described as terrible and lonely, yet inhabited by deer, hares and wolves to be hunted.[11]
Hasmal, a Free Marcher city on the edge of the Plains, experiences a regular influx of Tevinter refugees, who are often escaped slaves.[12]
Involvement[]
Dragon Age: Inquisition[]
Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights[]
Genitivi Dies in the End
By special commission of the Inquisition's Inner Circle, Philliam, a Bard!, Brother Genitivi, and (Formerly) Sister Laudine are sent on an expedition to the Silent Plains to find the true history of the elven pantheon. They are accompanied by Mateo, a Lord of Fortune.
Codex entries[]
Trivia[]
- The Box of Screaming that is on display in the Black Emporium was given to the author of a mysterious journal in the Silent Plains.[7]
- One of the Bottles of Thedas is "Silent Plains Piquette". Its description reads:
- An artisanal treatment of a Tevinter slave wine. Grape pomace is soaked and pressed, then buried for a year under the wastes where the first Archdemon fell. One assumes. They keep finding the stuff.
- Records do not say who exactly performed the killing blow on Dumat. Many Wardens struggled against him, and the Archdemon's very death throes slew seven or more of them.[14]
Gallery[]
![Fairbanks and his team travelling through the Silent Plains.[15]](/wiki/File:Silent_Plains_Absolution.png "Silent Plains Absolution.png (7.39 MB)")
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