—Dragon Age—

The ninth Age is named after the first high-dragon sighted in many centuries. By the end of the Blessed Age, most in Thedas believed that all the dragons had vanished, hunted down into extinction, that is until a dragon was sighted rampaging in the Frostbacks. Divine Faustine II, then leader of the faithful, declared the next age after the Blessed Age to be one of violence and destruction, thus ever it was heralded the 'Dragon Age'.

The Fereldan Rebellion saw the re-emergence of the dragons as a good omen, and, led by Prince Maric, drove the Orlesian Occupation out of their lands, re-establishing Fereldan's sovereignty in 9:2 Dragon. The King allows the Grey Warden Order to return to Fereldan after two centuries of exile.


—BOOK ONE—

TRAITORS TO THE REALM


The Chantry calendar measures time in "Ages". Each Age lasts approximately a century and so far there have been nine. The first Age, called the Divine Age was marked by the creation of the Chantry of Andraste while time periods before that are referred to as Ancient, so 400 years before the first Age would be -400 Ancient. This is equivalent to 800 TE by the Tevinter Imperium reckoning, when their mages, misguided as they were, attempted to physically enter the Golden City, they returned as the Darkspawn.

In the 99th year of each Age, the Divine looks for an event or portent to determine the name of the new Age: The Divine Age, The Glory Age, The Towers Age, The Black Age, The Exalted Age, The Steel, The Storm, The Blessed and The Dragon Age.