Well there was that bit with the Qunari, though that wasn't all that bad in the grand scheme of things. After the explosion, there was the conclave, but some venatori bastards and Corypheous did short work of that. Blew up the divine, everyone close and tore a giant whole in the veil.

Any sort of peace talks between the mages and templars sort of died after that, what with the whole chain of command for the southern chantry dead in one fell swoop. They were fighting among themselves outside of Redcliffe. [Though, it's strange that this woman hadn't heard.] Even in the free marches all of this had to have come back to you... There's a fucking hole in the sky, hard to miss. What with the tears all over with demons pouring out of them.