"Anyhow, I intend to get back to sampling this human wine. I'd like to forget there's a giant sky up there. How they live up here, I'll never know"

The Amaranthine Conflict, also known as the Darkspawn Civil War, occurred in the lands of Amaranthine a few months after the events of the Fifth Blight in 9:31 Dragon. In essence, it could be considered a continuation of the Blight. The war was fought between the forces of the Architect and the Mother, both intelligent darkspawn with ideological differences.

"Invoke a name that means nothing here any longer if you wish; I am not threatened"

It is an awe–inspiring sight, a great city of stone standing within a vast cavern, poised over a sea of molten lava. There the forges ring loudest, and the finest smiths create works that are the envy of all races. Countless thaigs were lost in the First Blight, when the darkspawn poured out of the Deep Roads like smoke. With each generation, more of the Deep Roads had to be sealed, more thaigs lost forever. Now only Orzammar stands—the last bastion of the dwarven race and its finest creation.

"Not that way, cowboy"

"What happened to the survivors from the Conduit Project?"

"Commander Shepard, enter the password and receive a free gift"