Towers Age

The Towers Age (3:00–3:99)[note 1] is the third named Age in the history of Thedas. It is named after the two towers of the Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux that were completed in 2:99 Glory.Dragon Age: Origins: Prima Official Game Guide Collector's Edition - Traveler's Guide, p. 343.
Archon Vespasian is assassinated the same day that the construction of the Grand Cathedral is concluded .
== Chronology ==
* 3:00 Towers: Flemeth is said to be born in the village of Highever in northern Ferelden.Dragon Age: Origins: Prima Official Game Guide Collector's Edition - Traveler's Guide, p. 360.
* 3:06 Towers: King Caspar Pentaghast of Nevarra dies in his sleep at the age of 127, after a reign of sixty years.Codex entry: Caspar the Magnificent Per , Caspar's rule began in 2:46 Glory.
* 3:09 Towers: The Right of Annulment is invoked for the third time since its inception. The mages of the Circle of Antiva are put to the sword.Description of Magehunter. After reports that the Right of Annulment might have been invoked to cover up a massacre by a serial-killing templar, the Antivan Crows are hired to eliminate the highest members of the Antivan Templar Order.Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights, Eight Little Talons
* 3:10 Towers: The Third Blight begins with an awakening of the Old God Toth. Central regions of the continent are overrun by a horde of darkspawn that appear in numbers greater than ever before. The darkspawn attack the cities of Marnas Pell and Vyrantium in Tevinter, as well as Arlesans, Montsimmard, and Churneau in Orlais. The Grey Wardens swiftly form a defense and succeed in fending off the darkspawn, but the besieged cities suffer heavy losses.Dragon Age: Origins: Prima Official Game Guide Collector's Edition - Traveler's Guide, p. 344.
* 3:18 Towers: Darkspawn lay waste to the cities along the Minanter River in the Free Marches. Orlesians and Tevinters initially do not react and focus on rebuilding their own countries, but after much pressure from the Grey Wardens in Weisshaupt, they send aid to the Free Marcher city-states.
* 3:25 Towers: The Orlesian and Tevinter forces gather in Hunter Fell where they join the Grey Wardens in the final battle of the Third Blight.
: Toth is slain and the darkspawn are decimated. The battle of Hunter Fell is remembered as one of the most bloody in history. Records say that the darkspawn corpses are piled up into mounds as high as one hundred feet and then burned. The sight takes on a symbolic meaning for the citizens of the Free Marches.
: The Free Marcher city-states suffer a surprise attack from the armies of Orlais and Tevinter who recently liberated them from the darkspawn. Orlais claims the city of Nevarra, while Tevinter annexes Hunter Fell.
The Alamarri hero Cormac travels north and joins the fight against the Blight. He helps the Marchers defeat the darkspawn horde, dying in the battle of Hunter Fell.[note 2]
* 3:41 Towers: The Canticle of Silence is declared dissonant by Divine Amara I and removed from the Chantry canon.
* 3:44 Towers: The 'Rebellion of Three Dragons' begins in Qarinus.
* 3:49 Towers: Hunter Fell breaks away from the Tevinter Imperium.
* 3:65 Towers: Nevarra achieves independence from Orlais.
* 3:86 Towers: Divine Joyous II is chosen to lead the Chantry.
* 3:87 Towers: The two main branches of the Chantry in Orlais and Tevinter Imperium come to large disagreement over the interpretation of the Maker's second commandment: "magic must serve man, and not rule over him." Tevinter priests claim it only prohibits the use of magic to control people's minds, and that the best way to utilize magical powers to "serve man" is to allow mages to be rulers. Tevene Chant of Light is altered to facilitate this interpretation. Divine Joyous II demands a revision to conform to the Orlesian Chant. Tevinter clerics refuse, positing that the Val Royeaux branch has been corrupted. Joyous II declares all Tevinter clergy as heretics. In response, the Archon appoints Grand Cleric Valhail, a man and a mage, as Divine of the Tevinter Chantry. In the south, Valhail is widely reviled and dubbed the "Black Divine." The event marks the Schism between the southern and northern branches, which become known as the Orlesian Chantry and the Imperial Chantry.
: In Ferelden, the local Circle of Magi moves to Kinloch Hold after the original tower in Denerim is razed.Kinloch Hold. BioWare wiki.
: Mages are forced to abandon their tower in Denerim as a result of resentment against magic that spread across Thedas following the Chantry Schism.
* 3:99 Towers: The death of Divine Joyous II is celebrated in Minrathous. The Imperial Divine makes it a holiday.
: The Black Age is named as the southern Chantry calls for retribution against the Imperial Divine.
== Notes ==
* The "Ages" description in Dragon Age: The World of Thedas Volume 1 page 21, erroneously describes every age starting with year 1 and ending with year 99, claiming the Glory Age took place between 2:1-2:99, the Towers Age between 3:1-3:99 etc. This is directly contradicted in the timeline within the same book, which cites the existence of 3:00 Towers, 4:00 Black, and 9:00 Dragon. Such a system would result in each age lasting ninety-nine years, not one hundred.
* In an unspecified date within the Towers Age, the Chasind along with other "terrible things" were led by Flemeth's daughters, the Witches of the Wild. This force invaded the Fereldan Valley and were all but unopposed until the hero Cormac led an army of Alamarri fighters and Orzammar dwarves. After a long series of dreadful battles, the Chasind were all but destroyed, and the witches burned. To this day the Fereldans eye the Korcari Wilds warily, regarding the Chasind with suspicion and hatred.Dragon Age (tabletop RPG) Player's Guide Set 1, p. 9Dragon Age (tabletop RPG), Core Rulebook, p. 153
* Other accounts say there was never a war between Flemeth and Cormac to begin with, nor a Chasind invasion at that time. Some say that in truth, Cormac led a brutal civil war against his own people under the pretense of rooting out an evil corruption amongst its nobility. The legend of Flemeth leading an army of Chasind Wilders to invade the Ferelden lowlands was a lie spread afterwards, presumably to be used as propaganda when the wars between Ferelden's Alamarri and the Chasind eventually came.Dialogue with Morrigan if discussing Flemeth's legends in Dragon Age: Origins.
* Dragon Age: Origins: Prima Official Game Guide Collector's Edition - Traveler's Guide p. 360 includes a version of Flemeth's story; she was born in 3:00 Towers and fled into the Korcari Wild after being betrayed by her husband Conobar, where she plotted for one hundred years to take revenge against her homeland. During this time, she brought the Chasind tribes under her control and gave birth to many daughters. In the end, she was defeated by Cormac. However, the Traveler's Guide also claims that Cormac died heroically in the battle of Hunter Fell in 3:25 Towers, which conflicts with the timeline of Flemeth's story.
== References ==
Category:Ages