Storm

**Bold = HPBM Canon**

Regular = Bioware Canon

## Storm Age

### 7:5 Storm

* After losing the Fereldan throne to her cousin Arland Theirin, Sophia Dryden joins the Grey Wardens and rises to the rank of Warden-Commander in Ferelden.
* Arland is considered by many to be a tyrant. Banns approach Sophia, asking her to intercede. She accepts and attempts a coup against her cousin using the Grey Wardens. After the bloody Battle of Soldier's Peak, Arland declares himself victorious with Sophia killed. The Grey Wardens are expelled from Ferelden and Soldier's Peak is abandoned.

### 7:23 Storm

* The Qunari are pushed back to Seheron and Rivain, but they are well entrenched. The Battle of the Nocen Sea is the largest naval engagement in history and results in a stalemate and the destruction of many of the ships on both sides. With both sides exhausted, an impasse begins.

### 7:25–85 Storm

* The Exalted Marches on the Qunari are declared, by both the Imperial Chantry - to retake Seheron and the eastern city of Qarinus - and the Orlesian Chantry - to retake Rivain.
* During the Exalted Marches, Orlais manages to steal the Tome of Koslun from the Qunari.

### 7:28 Storm

* A dragon cult following the rampage of the High Dragon Urzara devastates the northern Free Marches until the dragon is slain by a group of militia men.

### 7:34 Storm

* Archon Nomaran is elected directly from the ranks of the enchanters. He overturns the old rules forbidding mages from taking part in Tevinter politics.

### 7:44 Storm

* The newly crowned emperor of the Orlesian Empire, Freyan, allows women to become knights after witnessing the death of Ser Aveline, the Knight of Orlais.

### 7:52 Storm

* The second New Exalted March ends in a disaster, as the Qunari capture much of Antiva.

### 7:54 Storm

* The Qunari land in Estwatch and use it as a launching point for fleets of dreadnoughts.

### 7:55 Storm

* Raiders from Llomerryn unite under the banner of the Felicisima Armada. Together, their pirate fleets help turn the tide against the Qunari at sea.
* **Rialto and his men charge at the qunari across the road of Dumat bridge against the qunari. The Road is formally renamed to the Exalted bridge.**
* **The qunari collapse the exalted bridge.**
* A third and final Exalted March on the Qunari is called.

### 7:56 Storm

* The Qunari, although on the retreat, manage to gain a foothold in the Free Marches by landing near Ostwick and launching assaults against Starkhaven and Kirkwall. Starkhaven prevails, but Kirkwall falls to the sorceries of the Saarebas in a daring night-time raid and is occupied for several years.

### 7:60 Storm

* The Kirkwall City Guard is founded after the city is liberated from the occupation of the Qunari by an Orlesian chevalier by the name of Ser Michel Lafaille, who becomes the city's first Viscount.

### 7:71 Storm

* Etienne Valmont I is crowned Emperor of the Orlesian Empire.

### 7:75 Storm

* Battle of Afsaana between Orlesian and Qunari forces.

### 7:78 Storm

* The Felicisima Armada takes Estwatch following a massive naval battle with the Qunari.

### 7:82 Storm

* The Pentaghast family takes over Nevarra from the rival Van Markham family. In order to secure their border with Orlais, they approach Etienne Valmont I with an offer of marriage. The childless emperor leaves his wife of seventeen years to marry Princess Sotiria Pentaghast.

### 7:84 Storm

* By the end of the Third New Exalted March, the Qunari have only one stronghold left on the continent: the city of Kont-aar.
* By then, rebuilding all the destruction caused was considered more important than trying to dislodge the Qunari from Kont-aar once again. A meeting between envoys of all the human lands (except for Tevinter) and the Qunari at Llomerryn results in the signing of the Llomerryn Accord and peace being declared.
* **After the war Rialto Trastamara moved back into the capital and a new age came to Rivain. Under the scrutiny of the chantry, Rialto converted to Andrastianism.**
* **The people of the capital approved of the religion of their saviours and many converted as well. However, the people of Llomeryn were outraged, the people who had fought to save Rivain still held their own religion as they had for so many generations. Tensions grew between the former pirate settlement and the capital.**
* Peace is not established between Tevinter Imperium and the Qunari, though skirmishes are few while the Qunari pull back to Par Vollen and rebuild.

### 7:85 Storm

* **Rialto dies in his bed and his daughter Ximena II Trastamara takes the throne of Rivain.**

### 7:88 Storm

* The Chantry names Calenhad Theirin one of the Anointed for spreading Andrastianism to the entire kingdom of Ferelden.
* **Ximena II leads an army of Chantry fanatics to Llomeryn,  massacring the leaders and anyone else that refused to convert**

### 7:90 Storm

* Ceridweth, an apostate formerly of the Gallows, is made tranquil.

### 7:97 Storm

* As Emperor Etienne I remains childless, he forces his second wife, Sotiria Pentaghast, to join a cloister so he can marry his mistress. Nevarra sends soldiers into Orlais, but only to retrieve the princess; they do not start a war with the empire. **Sotiria carried Etienne's child in secret** and later marries a minor Orlesian noble by the name of Gustav LaFleur. The child becomes known as Aurelian Pentaghast.

### 7:99 Storm

* The end of war with the Qunari and the birth of twin boys, Reville and Gratien, to Emperor Etienne I of Orlais and his wife Yvette usher in the Blessed Age.