Elves who accepted the Chantry's offered truce were required to accept the Maker and live in ghettos, known as alienages, within human settlements. The lands of the Dales were appropriated by Orlais, with elven settlements being uprooted and worship of the elven gods forbidden. When it appeared that the elves might actually capture Val Royeaux, the Chantry called for a holy war, resulting in a new Exalted March against the Dales that completely crushed the elves by 2:20 Glory.

By the early Glory Age, there were numerous border skirmishes between the Dales and Orlais, which soon escalated into war.

Over the next 270 years or so, relations between the elves and their human neighbours deteriorated. Though Andraste's sons honored her promise to the elves and gave them their new homeland, it was to be short-lived by the standards of Elvhenan. The elves left Tevinter for their new homeland in -165 Ancient (1030 TE). However, the elves, led by Shartan, fought alongside Andraste in her fight against the Imperium, and their reward was a new home in The Dales, where the worship of the elven pantheon could be revived. During their centuries of slavery, the elves lost most of their language and history and the worship of the old elven pantheon declined. The elves retreated within Elvhenan but were ultimately conquered and enslaved by the Tevinter Imperium. However, elven belief holds that the Fade, or the 'Beyond' as it is known to the elves, is considered a holy place and the gods are trapped there in the 'Eternal City'. Their current location is uncertain, as they do not, apparently, interact with the mortal world. Interestingly, elven belief holds that -though the elven gods are credited with creating the gifts of the world (and in some cases for recreating the world itself)- they, too, were borne of the earth and are not considered responsible for its initial creation Unlike the Old Gods, the elven pantheon were never believed to have walked in the mortal realm or to have directly challenged the Maker. It is said that Fen'Harel was the only one able to walk freely between the two clans, and they both thought of him as one of their own.

There are also references in elven mythology to another race of gods, called ' The Forgotten Ones', the enemies of the elven pantheon. The pantheon is led by Elgar'nan the All-Father, god of fatherhood and vengeance, and Mythal the Protector, goddess of motherhood and justice. The elven pantheon, also known in elven as the Evanuris, is comprised of five gods and four goddesses, whom the modern Dalish elves call 'the Creators'.

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