Jul 31, 2018
In Dragon Age Origins, when you first go to Haven to secure Andraste’s Ashes, you meet with the odd, reclusive cultists who live there and who try their level best to kill you (and then try to convince you to defile the ashes). You meet their priest, Revered Father Eirik, and everyone in the party comments on how odd that is.
However, it’s NOT odd if you consider that in the Tevinter Imperium, the divine is a man, and their priests are men as well. Could the people at Haven have been descended from a group of Tevinter ancestors, who kept their own Chantry’s hierarchy as the ‘true’ Chantry? That should have put their arrival somewhere at the end of the Ancient Age or close to the beginning of the Divine Age.