

Orseck Garal and Endrin Stonehammer are two of those great rulers during this golden age with the latter forging an alliance with the first Tevinter Archon, Darinius, in -1200 Ancient (-5 TE). įor thousands of years until the beginning of the First Blight, the dwarven empire expanded and prospered.

Under the sandy desert of the Hissing Wastes he established the only known above-ground thaig Kal Repartha which means in dwarven language "a place where we may meet in peace". In order to escape or to avoid a war he took his own house and several others, and departed from his brethren. Two thaigs used the runework of the most talented Shaper of Runes in dwarven history, Paragon Fairel, to build fantastic weapons of destruction. The Dalish tell a story about how the dwarves fear the sun because of Elgar'nan's fire which they believe is a metaphor for the ancient elves driving the dwarves underground.

Veilfire runes in an ancient mine depict figures of Mythal leading a charge against the titans and killing at least some of them. Ancient elven text speaks about them hunting " the pillars of the earth", both to free their mindless subjects from them and force growth from their corpses. Solas compares dwarves to a "severed arm of a once mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood". According to Shaper Valta the Titans fell and the dwarven race with them, breaking in two.
