Lore Video #11: Andraste and Maferath, Part 3

Another great video. I really love the way you bring all the history together. I take your point about the timeline as well but then the writers have sometimes proven to be a bit unreliable when it comes to dates, even about more recent history let alone the Ancient period. They usually seem to explain these discrepancies by attributing them to the differing recollections of events and no actual dates were given for the birth of any of the children, so it is possible that Vivial was that young when she ran off with Regulan.

A lot depends on what age Andraste was when her step-sister was killed. World of Thedas 2 says that she did not recover the strength to have children until 10 years after the event. She married Maferath at 16 but that was a political union and he took a concubine specifically because Andraste was incapable of childbearing at that time. However, she died only 17 years later, so there really was only a small window for her daughters to be born if they were old enough to take consorts before Andraste died. It is also possible that Vivial and Regulan only got together after her mother's death, which in a way might have shocked people even more bearing in mind where he came from, which is why she made sure to cover their tracks so effectively.  Then later historians assumed that they fled before it occurred.