June

June is the elven Master of Crafts,^[1] a god of crafts and building.^[2]

Dalish legends[]

We dedicate all our crafts to June, for it is he who taught the People to bend the branches of trees to make our bows, and to fashion coverings of furs and ironbark. Without June, would we have the aravel, or the harnesses for our halla?

—From Codex entry: June: God of the Craft

Tales describe June either as a brother to Andruil and Sylaise^[3] or as Sylaise's husband. It is even said that he created himself.^[4]

The Dalish tell that before Sylaise and June came to them, the elves wandered the forests without purpose, eating only the berries and nuts they could find and shivering naked through cold nights. June taught the elves to make all needful things,^[4] and in particular used Sylaise's gentle lessons to the elven people to teach them how to make bows, arrows, and knives to hunt Andruil's gifts.^[3]

Little is known of June.^[2] In keeping with his inscrutable nature, Dalish elves train their minds with an insoluble wooden puzzle carving they call "June's knot."^[5] The sword Evanura was forged by the High Keeper of June.^[6] Another High Keeper of June was a smith as well.^[7]

In Elvhenan[]

This section contains spoilers for:
Trespasser.

Depictions of June stretch back to ancient Arlathan, but he appears most seldom of all elven deities and the oldest depictions have none of the tools the Dalish associate with him. An Orlesian source speculates that June's role may have changed over time.^[2]

Thousands of elves channeled raw essence from the Fade into a sphere in the air to create the Grand Sonallium. It was a gift from Blessed Sylaise to Clever June as thanks for a great favor.^[8]

June's greatest invention was the first Eluvian.

This section contains spoilers for:
Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

The Evanuris weaponized the Blight in their wars of supremacy, especially during Solas' rebellion against them. Solas told Mythal of the other elven gods' abuse of the Blight and she sought to convince them to cease its use on behalf of Solas. The other elven gods had somehow acquired Solas' lyrium dagger and murdered Mythal with it when she confronted them. Solas recovered the Lyrium Dagger from Elgar'nan and from it extracted a fragment of Mythal that had lain hidden within its depths.^[9] For unleashing the Blight onto the world and murdering Mythal, Solas imprisoned the Evanuris in the Fade and used their lives to sustain the Veil by connecting their blood to his Lyrium Dagger. Yet Solas did not anticipate that the Elven pantheon that he had imprisoned would speak through the Old Gods and manipulate the Magisters Sidereal into breaching the Black City and releasing a portion of the Blight onto Thedas.^[10]^[11]

Bellara Lutare believed that June's high dragon thrall was Urthemiel, the Old God of Beauty, and the Old God of the Fifth Blight, due to a mutual association with well-crafted luxury goods and beautiful architecture. If Bellara is correct, a remnant of June may have been preserved through the Dark Ritual.