A surviving magister claims that the city was already black when they arrived, and they found the throne empty. He cast the magisters down and turned them into the first darkspawn, leading to the cycle of Blights that ravage the land every few hundred years.
The Chantry believes that if all four corners of the world sing the Chant of Light, the Maker will finally forgive humanity of their sins and return to their world. The Maker has been involved for centuries in a passive-aggressive cycle of rejecting humanity, returning briefly, and leaving once more due to the weight of humanity's sins.
The MakerMonotheistic Creator of all that exists and all-powerful, all-knowing deity of the Andrastian doctrine.
