Towers Age

The **Towers Age** (3:00–3:99) is the third named Age in the history of Thedas. When the Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux was completed in 2:99 Glory, its two main towers were visible from everywhere in the city and from miles around, and thus the Towers Age was named.

Archon Vespasian is assassinated the same day that the Grand Cathedral in Orlais is completed.

## Chronology

* **3:00 Towers**: Flemeth is said to be born in the Fereldan village of Highever.

* **3:06 Towers**: King Caspar Pentaghast of Nevarra dies in his sleep at the age of 127, after a reign of sixty years.

* **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. 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.

* **3:10 Towers**: The Old God Toth awakens, and the Third Blight erupts in the central lands of Thedas with darkspawn coming in greater numbers than ever before. Darkspawn swarm the Tevinter cities of Marnas Pell and Vyrantium as well as the Orlesian cities of Arlesans and Montsimmard.

The Grey Wardens in both of these countries are able to quickly organize a defense, and despite heavy losses in the besieged cities, the darkspawn are pushed back.
* **3:18 Towers**: Darkspawn ravage the Free Marches, attacking cities along the Minanter River. At first, the Orlesians and Tevinter do nothing, but constant pressure from the Grey Wardens in Weisshaupt convinces both nations to send aid to the beleaguered city-states.

* **3:25 Towers**: The armies of Orlais and the Tevinter Imperium meet in Hunter Fell and join the Grey Wardens in the last battle of the Third Blight.

Toth is destroyed, and the darkspawn are slaughtered in one of the bloodiest battles in history. The darkspawn carcasses are piled into mounds as high as 100 feet and then burned. The people of the Free Marches will not soon forget the image of the burning darkspawn.
Their goodwill is quickly crushed by the victorious armies as they decide to occupy the territories liberated from the darkspawn. Orlais takes the city of Nevarra, while Tevinter takes Hunter Fell.
* **3:41 Towers**: The Canticle of Silence is declared dissonant by Divine Amara I.

* **3:44 Towers**: The 'Rebellion of Three Dragons' begins near Qarinus.

* **3:49 Towers**: Hunter Fell breaks away from Tevinter Imperium.

* **3:65 Towers**: Nevarra achieves independence from Orlais.

* **3:86 Towers**: Divine Joyous II is made head of the Chantry.

* **3:87 Towers**: After learning that the Imperial Chantry has been preaching that magic best serves man by ruling over him, Divine Joyous II demands that the Tevinter Chant of Light be revised to conform to the Orlesian Chant, which states that "magic must serve man, and not rule over him." She declares the Tevinter clergy heretics when they refuse. In response, the Archon appoints Grand Cleric Valhail, a man and a mage, as Divine of the Tevinter Chantry. In the south, he is widely reviled and dubbed the "Black Divine."

In Ferelden, the local Circle of Magi moves to Kinloch Hold after the original tower in Denerim is razed.
* **3:99 Towers**: The death of Divine Joyous II is celebrated in Minrathous and declared a holiday by the Imperial Divine.

The Black Age is named as the Chantry calls for retribution against the false Divine of the north.
## Notes

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* In an unspecified date within the Towers Age, the Chasind Wilders along with other "terrible things" were led by Flemeth's daughters, the Witches of the Wild. This force invaded the north 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 south warily, regarding the Chasind with suspicion and hatred. 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.