Magister Alexius invites the Herald of Andraste to Redcliffe Castle to negotiate for the southern mages' aid. Redcliffe Castle after a year of Alexius' rule Alexius banished Arl Teagan Guerrin and seized Redcliffe Castle as his stronghold. Feeling they had no choice, the mages accepted.
One of the Venatori, Magister Gereon Alexius, traveled in time to the rebel mages' most desperate moment and offered the mages citizenship in exchange for ten years indentured servitude. Eventually Venatori infiltrators persuaded the desperate mages under Fiona that their only hope of survival was to escape to the Tevinter Imperium. The mages gratefully accepted the offer however the Templar host pursued them across the border.Ĭhaos erupted after the explosion that caused the Breach destroyed the Chantry's peace summit. The Monarchy offered the rebel mages sanctuary in Ferelden, in the Arling of Redcliffe. The castle is popularly described as "unassailable" in spite of these three attacks. On only three such occasions was it successfully taken-first by Calenhad Theirin, much later by Orlesian nobility, and most recently when restored to the Guerrins in the Fereldan Rebellion. "There is iron in the hills, as there is in the people" goes the local saying, and no one disbelieves it. That was no easy task, for while the folk of Redcliffe may be simple, they are also proud of their ancient role as Ferelden's protectors from incursion. It was here that the Avvar hill folk came to strike at the lowlands to the east, and it was this castle that the Orlesian Empire needed to control before conquering Ferelden. Redcliffe Castle is the first and last line of defense for the sole land route into Ferelden, and the country has never fallen to any force that did not first take Redcliffe. Since the days of the Alamarri clans, the castle has guarded the main pass through the Frostback Mountains into Orlais.
Castle Redcliffe has stood for far longer than the village it protects.