How about an ancient Darkspawn tearing a hole in the sky? Blew up the conclave where the Divine was going to try and settle the Mage-Templar war, killing the Divine, along with anyone who could succeed her...

[He just casually starts counting on his fingers as he lists of a handful of the nonsense that went on in the year following the incident at the conclave.]

Rifts started opening all over Thedas spewing demons, Grey Warden were hearing a fall calling...

[Oh out of fingers. Welp, list done. Any more detail would probably make him sound crazy anyway.]

I mean we fixed it all eventually. Sort of. For now...