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In -203 Ancient (992 TE) the area became the site of the titanic Battle of Silent Plains. Grey Wardens amassed a large force of Tevinter, Rivaini and Ciriane soldiers, men and dwarves and slew the archdemon Dumat, the Dragon of Silence, ending the First Blight. A third of all the armies of northern Thedas were lost to fighting.

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The Plains have still not recovered from the ravages of the First Blight and are now a gray, wind-blasted wasteland filled with dust, fine as ash, and occasional rocks. The land was so tainted in the wake of the battle that no plant would grow there a thousand years later, save for the rare felicidus aria, commonly known as the Silent Plains Rose.