Blessed

**Bold = HPBM Canon**

Regular = Bioware Canon

### 8:10 Blessed

* In a grand gesture, Qunari in Par Vollen welcome a group of Rivaini diplomats. The visit dispels many myths about Qunari society.

### 8:11 Blessed

* **Kingston dies for the first time and is resurrected not long after.**

### 8:21 Blessed

* Emperor Etienne Valmont passes away. His son, Reville Valmont, is crowned Emperor.

### 8:24 Blessed

* The Orlesian Empire, under the direction of the "Mad Emperor" Reville, launches the Second Orlesian Invasion of Ferelden. Thanks to the clandestine support of number of powerful banns undermining Ferelden defence, Orlais quickly establishes a strong foothold.
* Vigil's Keep and the City of Amaranthine are taken by the Empire, as is Redcliffe.
* At the Battle of Lothering, Ardal Cousland, Teyrn of Highever, is slain defending his king, Vanedrin Theirin. The King is also killed by the Orlesians.
* **Kingston dies in the battle as well, afterwards he picks up the King's sword, Nemetos that once belonged to Calenhad the Great.**

### 8:25 Blessed

* Though Vanedrin is succeeded by his son, King Brandel Theirin, the youth is unable to unite the country beneath him, and for the next two decades, Ferelden is mired in blood and battle.

### 8:31 Blessed

* The House of Repose accept a contract from the du Paraquette family to keep the mercantile activities from the Antivan Montilyet family outside of Orlais.

### 8:44 Blessed

* **Kingston is promoted to Captain.**
* **Kingston accidentally becomes the leader of a militia resistance in Gwaren and is honored as the Champion of Gwaren.**
* **Kingston marches his militiamen towards Denerim to defend the King from the approaching Orlesians.**
* The Orlesian Empire finally sacks the city of Denerim, claiming victory in Ferelden and driving King Brandel into hiding.
* Though routed, the King and others among the true Fereldan nobility continue to wage guerrilla war against their oppressors. When Brandel finally dies, several years after the birth of his grandson Maric Theirin, Orlais crowns Meghren as King of Ferelden, though Brandel's daughter, "the Rebel Queen" Moira Theirin - considerably more popular and charismatic than her father - keeps the resistance alive.
* **Kingston is imprisoned and tortured by Chevalier Pierre Proulx before he steals Nemetos, kills Kingston and tosses him into the river.**

### 8:45 Blessed

* **Kingston assassinates Pierre Proulx and takes his identity and is killed during a tourney in Val Royeux. He is hired as a bodyguard for Grand Duke Gratien.**

### 8:46 Blessed

* Nevarra begins the Perendale War with Orlais as belated payback for Princess Sotiria Pentaghast's dismissal by Emperor Etienne I. However, Orlais proceeds to sow dissent and rebellion among the locals in Perendale, who resent Nevarran rule.

### 8:47 Blessed

* **Camille Gratien is born to Kingston and Rosie Gratien in Orlais.**
* Emperor Reville, fearing the court turning favor toward rival Grand Duke Gratien, has Gratien, his wife, three grown children, and all eight grandchildren murdered. **Except for the youngest, Camille, who is spirited away by her father.**

### 8:49 Blessed

* Kingston builds a farm in Ferelden for him and his 2 year old daughter.

### 8:51 Blessed

* Emperor Reville dies after spending more than a year locked in his room, fearing retribution for his assassination of the Gratien family. His son, Etienne Valmont II, is crowned the Emperor.

### 8:55 Blessed

* War between the Qunari and the Tevinter Imperium continues as the Qunari land and conquer Seheron within three years. Tevinter is left on its own to fight its war with the Qunari, though the peace between the Qunari and other lands is considered fragile.
* Several attempts by the Qunari to land on the continent and attack Tevinter directly are repulsed.
* Emperor Etienne Valmont II of Orlais dies. His brother, Judicael Valmont, is crowned the new Emperor.

### 8:56 Blessed

* The Judicael's Crossing bridge is built in Emprise du Lion.

### 8:58 Blessed

* **Captain Jack Hammer's father dies and he inherits his ship and crew.**

### 8:60 Blessed

* Aurelian Pentaghast, son of Princess Sotiria Pentaghast, attempts to assume the Nevarran throne. **The Nevarran royalty, not wanting a Pentaghast born in Orlais to ascend to the throne, start a rumor that** he is not a Pentaghast by blood. The disgraced Aurelian joins the dwarven Legion of the Dead, the only human ever to do so.
* **Kingston meets Merryn Stockton, his future son-in-law**

### 8:61 Blessed

* **Aurelian Pentaghast resurfaces as a dragon slayer under the moniker "The Green Blade."**

### 8:62 Blessed

* The Antivan city of Treviso is burned to the ground after a fire started in a warehouse full of lamp oil.
* **Theodore Pentaghast is born to Aurelian in Ferelden.**

### 8:65 Blessed

* **Kingston Stockton is born to Camille Gratien and Merryn Stockton.**

### 8:70 Blessed

* Emperor Judicael dies. His son, Judicael II is crowned the Emperor.
* **Captain Jack Hammer discovers the continent to the east and recieves the Lyrium Edge.**

### 8:74 Blessed

* **Antonio Hecate is born to Mario Hecate in Antiva.**
* **Aurelian Pentaghast is killed in combat with the Two-Headed Greatdragon Reuleaux in Tevinter and his son Theodore inherits his father's veridium sword. The Green Blade.**

### 8:76 Blessed

* In the coldest winter in centuries, Adain of Starkhaven escapes from the Circle of Magi.
* **Kingston and his daughter die of the Hundred Days Cough. When he resurrects he gives all his money to Merryn and little Kingston and leaves.**

### 8:77 Blessed

* The Hundred Days Cough epidemic reaches Orlais; it claims the lives of the twin sons of the Emperor Judicael II and the infant daughter of his brother Florian.
* **Kingston meets Moira and joins her rebellion.**

### 8:78 Blessed

* Maric Theirin is born to Moira Theirin **and Kinsgton.**
* Loghain Mac Tir is born.

### 8:82 Blessed

* Nevarra begins a bloody campaign of conquest within the Free Marches, encouraged by their taking of Perendale. They are stopped by Cade Arvale, who is named Champion of Tantervale for his deed.
* **Sebastian de Calvados is born in Rivain.**

### 8:83 Blessed

* **Xeno de Calvados is born in Rivain.**

### 8:84 Blessed

* After Emperor Judicael II dies during a fox hunt, his brother Florian Valmont ascends to the throne of Orlais, much to his chagrin.
* Eamon Guerrin, the future arl of Redcliffe, is born.
* **Arvaraad is born in Par Vollen**

### 8:85 Blessed

* **Merryn Stockton is born to Kingston Stockton.**

### 8:87 Blessed

* Florianne de Chalons, the niece of recently ascended Emperor Florian Valmont, is born.

### 8:90 Blessed

* **Anton Lupan is born in Tevinter.**
* **Antonio Hecate's father: Mario Hecate, and grandfather: Dario I Hecate are assassinated by an Antivan Crow. He inherits his family's fortune and gives most of it away to help the poor.**

### 8:91 Blessed

* Teagan Guerrin, younger brother of Rowan Guerrin and Eamon Guerrin, is born.

### 8:93 Blessed

* **Julie Stockton, sister of Merryn is born to Kingston Stockton**

### 8:95 Blessed

* The Witch of the Wilds in the Antivan Weyrs shouts a prophecy about the impending return of the dragons.

### 8:96 Blessed

* Moira the Rebel Queen is assassinated by Bann Ceorlic and several other traitor nobles at the behest of the Orlesian King Meghren.
* **Kingston dies trying to save Moira.**
* Endrin Aeducan takes the throne of Orzammar.

### 8:98 Blessed

* The Fereldan rebels, led by the young Prince Maric, take the isolated port town of Gwaren, their first major victory since the death of Queen Moira.
* House Tethras is exiled to the surface for denying the Voice of the Ancestors and willfully manipulating the sacred Provings.

### 8:99 Blessed

* At the battle of West Hill, the Fereldan rebel army is devastated by the royalist forces. Survivors retreat to Gwaren. Maric is presumed dead.
* **Kingston rallies the men of Gwaren once again.**
* With the aid of the Legion of the Dead, Prince Maric emerges from the Deep Roads under Gwaren and wins an important battle and is coming much closer in liberating Ferelden than he or his mother ever did. Afterwards, he also kills Bann Ceorlic as well as the other three nobles who betrayed and killed his mother.
* Believed hunted to extinction, dragons emerge first in Antiva, then devastate rural Orlais and Nevarra. Another dragon is also sighted in the Orlesian side of the Frostback Mountains, just before the battle of River Dane.
* In light of this, Divine Faustine II who was ready to declare the Sun Age, named for the symbol of the Orlesian Empire, instead names the next age as the Dragon Age. It is predicted to be an age of violence and upheaval.
* At the Battle of River Dane, the last two legions of chevaliers that the Emperor sent to the occupied Ferelden are defeated by the rebels who are led by Loghain Mac Tir.
* The Seekers of Truth abandon Therinfal Redoubt in Ferelden due to lack of funding.
* **Dario is born to Antonio Hecate and Maeve, a washerwoman in Costa Luna, Rivain.**