Grand Forest Villa

The Grand Forest Villa is a fortress situated on the southwestern most edge of the Hinterlands.

Background[]

The villa was built during the Storm Age^[1] by the contemporary Arl of Redcliffe, Jacen Guerrin. Despite being married to a woman, Jacen was ostensibly either gay or bisexual, and in a relationship with a Bard and swordman by the name of Ser Corram.^[1] Jacen's wife knew about the extra marital relationship of her husband, but insisted that Ser Corram does not stay with them at Redcliffe Castle.^[1] And thus the Arl built the fortress known as the Grand Forest Villa to house his lover. Arlessa Marguerite allowed Ser Corram to stay in the villa even past the Arl's death, and Ser Corram lived there until his peaceful death at the age of ninety. He was burned in Arl Jacen's hunting cloak as ordered by the late Arlessa.

For about 300 years after Corram's death the villa was used for storage or as a summer house by the Guerrins, until the Fifth Blight, when the villa was abandoned due to the chaos surrounding the current Arl of Redcliffe.

Involvement[]

This section contains spoilers for:
Dragon Age: Inquisition.

In 9:41 Dragon, the villa plays a significant role in a large lyrium smuggling operation. It is used as a base of operations for the bandits terrorizing the refuges in the Hinterlands. The outlaws have also teamed up with the Carta to mine Valammar, an abandoned dwarven thaig, to transport lyrium through the Hinterlands via the East Road using the docks in Lady Shayna's Valley.