Location Val Royeaux
Type:	City
Location:	Orlais
Inhabitants:	Humans, elves
Appearances:	Dragon Age: Asunder

Val Royeaux is the capital of Orlais, and home to the Chantry of Andraste. It lies on the northern coast of the far inland tip of the Waking Sea. It is one of the largest cities of Thedas.^[1]

Background Edit

Val Royeaux is the secular capital, but also the capital of the Chantry, the seat of the Divine being situated at the Grand Cathedral of Val Royeaux. There, the Chantry performs a ritual where the entire Chant of Light is sung, a process thought to take about a fortnight to complete. From the White Spire, the Knight-Vigilant of the templars directs the Order.

Val Royeaux is home to the University of Orlais, a major center of learning that attracts young nobles from all over Thedas with the best education money can buy. It is a relatively modern institution whose liberal-minded professors have already clashed with religious conservatives over the content of their classes.

Val Royeaux is also where aging templars retire to when they can no longer adequately perform their services due to mental deterioration caused by long-term lyrium dependency.

The Val Royeaux alienage is the most populated and dilapidated in Thedas, with over ten thousand elves living in an area roughly equivalent in size to the market in Denerim.

Places Edit

• Grand Cathedral
• White Spire
• Seekers of Truth headquarters

See also Edit

References Edit

1. ↑ "Interactive Map of Thedas". GameInformer. Retrieved 2011-01-21.