"Wouldn't that be a thing, a listing of what's gone on." Anders shakes his head. He can tell by her scattered description of things that no one has really helped straighten things out... but then again, where would they start? The story goes back hundreds of years.
"We don't have anything like that, but let me try to... outline. The world was made by the Maker. Big surprise there. There are two parts. The waking world, which you see, and the Fade, touched by dreamers, walked by mages, and home to spirits and demons. The Maker hung out in the Golden City until who knows what happened. He got bored, frustrated, it doesn't really matter. He buggered off. Left the City behind.
"A group of very powerful mages from Tevinter, a country, decided they'd take the Maker's place and went into the Golden City, turning it Black. You can see it from any part of the Fade, dark and foreboding. The point is, one of them was named Corypheus. Or at least he's claiming to be one of them. That's the guy the main war is against, and this was over a thousand years ago. He's powerful enough that I believe him.
"Jump forward not too much further, to about nine hundred years ago, and there's a woman named Andraste who sought to stop the spread of the Tevinter Imperium. Mage-run empire, enslaved and slaughtered elves, were trying to spread across the continent. Fighting happened, she got betrayed and killed and set up as the Maker's bride and basically worshiped. The Tevinter stopped spreading. This is about the time when people decided that just because some mages were corrupt and loved power, all mages must be evil and seek it out, and they should be locked up for the safety of everyone else. This was justified as Andraste's will, because one of the things she said was that magic should serve men, not men serve magic.
"And now we come to recent times. We're finally finding freedom after a few things have happened - Lord Seeker Lambert causing a slaughter, a mage blowing up a Chantry, a building dedicated to the worship of Andraste, and the destruction of the conclave, meeting of mages and Andraste's worship's highest figure, the Divine, by Corypheus - the Templars who were are jailers are angry, everyone's threatened by Corypheus and his massive dragon, elves have still been being slaughtered by humans, the qunari want to enslave most of us and kill the rest, it's a lovely time to be visiting Thedas."
His lips quirk upward despite how he tries to keep from grinning. "Any questions?"
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"We don't have anything like that, but let me try to... outline. The world was made by the Maker. Big surprise there. There are two parts. The waking world, which you see, and the Fade, touched by dreamers, walked by mages, and home to spirits and demons. The Maker hung out in the Golden City until who knows what happened. He got bored, frustrated, it doesn't really matter. He buggered off. Left the City behind.
"A group of very powerful mages from Tevinter, a country, decided they'd take the Maker's place and went into the Golden City, turning it Black. You can see it from any part of the Fade, dark and foreboding. The point is, one of them was named Corypheus. Or at least he's claiming to be one of them. That's the guy the main war is against, and this was over a thousand years ago. He's powerful enough that I believe him.
"Jump forward not too much further, to about nine hundred years ago, and there's a woman named Andraste who sought to stop the spread of the Tevinter Imperium. Mage-run empire, enslaved and slaughtered elves, were trying to spread across the continent. Fighting happened, she got betrayed and killed and set up as the Maker's bride and basically worshiped. The Tevinter stopped spreading. This is about the time when people decided that just because some mages were corrupt and loved power, all mages must be evil and seek it out, and they should be locked up for the safety of everyone else. This was justified as Andraste's will, because one of the things she said was that magic should serve men, not men serve magic.
"And now we come to recent times. We're finally finding freedom after a few things have happened - Lord Seeker Lambert causing a slaughter, a mage blowing up a Chantry, a building dedicated to the worship of Andraste, and the destruction of the conclave, meeting of mages and Andraste's worship's highest figure, the Divine, by Corypheus - the Templars who were are jailers are angry, everyone's threatened by Corypheus and his massive dragon, elves have still been being slaughtered by humans, the qunari want to enslave most of us and kill the rest, it's a lovely time to be visiting Thedas."
His lips quirk upward despite how he tries to keep from grinning. "Any questions?"