History of Thedas

• 9:30
  • Fifth Blight begins
  • Drakonis – Battle for Ostagar. King Cailan is killed
  • Cloudreach – Circle Tower in Ferelden is sealed
  • Hawke and her family escape to Kirkwall
  • 8 Bloomingtide – Crestwood encounters the Blight. Dam is broken flooding the valley and stopping the darkspawn
• 9:34
  • Qunari uprising in Kirkwall
    • Hawke is declared the Champion of Kirkwall
• 9:37
  • Chantry explodes in Kirkwall
  • Knight-Commander Meredith invokes the Right of Annulment sparking the Mage-Templar war
  • Hawke sides with the mages and kills Knight-Commander Meredith
• 9:40
  • Divine Justinia calls for a Divine Conclave at the Temple of Sacred Ashes to bring mages and Templars together to end the war
• 9:41
  • Temple of Sacred Ashes is destroyed in a massive explosion that creates a Breach in the sky
  • Everyone who attended the Conclave is dead, except for Ariana Trevelyan

The Orlesian Chantry is the dominant religious organization in Thedas. It is based on the Chant of Light, a series of teachings written by Andraste, the prophet of the Maker, and her disciples. It was founded by Kordillus Drakon, the first emperor of Orlais. The Chantry is a denomination of Andrastianism; its followers are known as Andrastians.

The Chantry’s goal is to spread the Chant of Light to all four corners of the world and to all races. The view of the Chantry on non-humans is that they need saving—they have turned even further from the Maker’s grace than humanity has—a view that has led much of humanity to look down on them. There are no known Andrastian Qunari. The elves worshipped, and in some cases still worship, the Elven pantheon, and dwarves venerate the Stone. Once all peoples have accepted the Chant and practice its teachings, the Maker will return and restore the world to its former glory. As such, Andrastian religion in Thedas can be described as deistic in that the Maker abandoned the world, and he will not heed prayer or perform any other function until his favor is regained.

The Orlesian Chantry calendar is used everywhere in Thedas, save for the Tevinter Imperium, and is the source of the names of the Ages.

The most common calendar in Thedas is the Chantry calendar, which is used everywhere outside Tevinter. Its first year honors the appointment of the first head of the Chantry, Divine Justinia I. Anything prior to 1:01 Divine is known as the Ancient Era and denoted using negative numbers. The Chantry calendar is further divided into Ages, each a hundred years long and named by the incumbent Divine in the last year of the preceding age based on predictions of things to come. There have been nine ages since the formation of the Chantry.

The calendar consists of twelve thirty-day months with an additional five days known as annums which are used to mark the transition between the four seasons and the first day of the year. The annums are major holidays celebrated throughout most of Thedas.

•     1st month: Wintermarch (Annum: First Day)
•     2nd month:  Guardian (Annum: Wintersend)
•     3rd month:  Drakonis
•     4th month: Cloudreach
•     5th month: Bloomingtide (Annum: Summerday)
•     6th month: Justinian
•     7th month: Solace
•     8th month:  August (Annum: All Soul’s Day)
•     9th month:  Kingsway
•     10th month:  Harvestmere
•     11th month:  Firstfall (Annum: Satinalia)
•     12th month:  Haring