Duty
Start Location:
- Hightown
Requirements:
- You must have access to the Premium Content entitled The Exiled Prince and have completed the quest of the same name.
- Unlike many other companion quests, this can be completed during Act 1 or Act 2.
- The Flint Company Mercenary groups can be found in the Docks at night, close to the main Sundermount entrance, and in the northeast corner of the Wounded Coast. We would suggest that you deal with them when other quests lead you to these locations.
- Once all three groups have been defeated, return to the Chantry and speak with Sebastian to complete the quest.
Consequences:
- Completing Duty leads to the Repentance companion quest, which is available from the start of Act 2. If you have already reached Act 2, Repentance should be playable immediately.
The Way It Should Be
Start Location:
- Viscount’s Keep
Requirements:
- Complete the A Friend in the Guard main plot quest by visiting Aveline in the Viscount’s Keep barracks.
- Aveline must be in your party when you visit the Sundermount Ambush Site location and for all subsequent stages of this quest.
- On arrival at the Sundermount Ambush Site, fight your way through Raiders until you reach the southwest corner of the map. This area cannot be accessed again once you leave, so you may wish to be thorough in collecting loot (there is a crafting ingredient here).
- When the main ambush begins, try to draw enemies to your party’s position: there are traps situated around the rocks. Once all hostiles have been disabled, leave the area and return to the Viscount’s Keep barracks. Interact with the marked door, then check the duty roster.
- Travel to Lowtown at night. On arrival at the waypoint, kill Guardsman Donnic’s attackers; be mindful of additional foes that arrive at the alley entrance. Finally, return to the Viscount’s Keep for the quest’s closing cutscenes.
Consequences:
- If you do not complete The Way It Should Be before you leave for the Deep Roads Expedition (and, therefore, the conclusion of Act 1), Aveline’s Act 3 companion quest (Favor and Fault) will not take place.
Birthright
Start Location:
Requirements:
- Complete the A New Home? main plot quest by visiting Gamlen’s hovel in Lowtown for the first time.
- Talk to Mother in Gamlen’s House, then speak with Bethany or Carver as applicable.
- Travel to Darktown, then head to the Amell Estate Cellar. Hawke’s surviving sibling is locked into the party once you enter.
- If Carver is present, visit the store room area to loot the chest for Tobrius’s Documents or, with Bethany at your side, the Portrait of Your Mother item. This begins a companion quest related to your sibling: see Consequences. You must collect either item before you depart as it isn’t possible to return at a later date.
- This quest may be your first encounter with the Assassin and Mage enemy types. See pages 223 and 230 of the Bestiary chapter for more information on these adversaries.
- Collect the Vault Key from the Master Slaver’s remains after the battle in the anteroom, then enter the estate vault to pick up Grandfather Amell’s Will and Testament from the chest. If you haven’t fully reconnoitered the area for loot, decline your sibling’s suggestion that you leave immediately: doing so will automatically transport you to Gamlen’s House, and there’s no way to return here.
- The chest also contains the Fereldan Girded Plating companion armor upgrade for Carver or the Heirloom Amell Protective Sigils equivalent for Bethany.
Consequences:
- Completing this quest and looting the chests in the store room unlocks Family History if Carver is alive or Portrait of the Past if Bethany survived the Prologue. You can have conversations that reflect on the quest’s conclusion with each family member in Gamlen’s House afterwards.
- The conclusion of this quest also triggers Magistrate Vanard’s appearance in Hightown (he provides the Magistrate’s Orders secondary quest), and a letter at Gamlen’s House that leads to The Bone Pit: a venture with profitable follow-up quests in Act 1 and (predominately) Act 2.
Family History
Start Location:
- Amell Estate Cellar (during Birthright quest only)
Requirements:
- Carver must have survived the Prologue.
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The Tobrius’s Documents item was collected from a chest in the Amell Family Cellar storeroom during the Birthright quest.
- Travel to the Gallows and speak with Tobrius.
- Return to Gamlen’s House to speak to Carver. Your dialogue choices govern his reaction, but a pleasant tone should yield a sizable shift towards friendship.
Portrait of the Past
Start Location:
- Amell Estate Cellar (during Birthright quest only)
Requirements:
- Bethany must have survived the Prologue.
- The Portrait of Your Mother item was collected from a chest in the Amell Family Cellar storeroom during the Birthright quest.
- Visit Bethany at Gamlen’s House after having collected the Portrait of Your Mother during the Birthright quest. Speak to her, and Hawke will offer it as a gift for a high boost to friendship.
Questions and Answers
Requirements:
- Begins automatically on completion of the Tranquility main plot quest.
- Travel to The Hanged Man during the day. The quest ends once you have conversed with Varric. Speak to Isabela at the bar before you leave to begin the Fools Rush In quest.
Isabela’s Contact
Requirements:
- Begins automatically on completion of Fools Rush In.
- Travel to The Hanged Man and speak with Isabela; as is her wont, you’ll find her propping up the bar. This short conversation formally unlocks the Finders Keepers secondary quest.
Talk to Anders
Start Location:
Requirements:
- Complete Tranquility and return to Darktown to visit Anders.
- If Anders is in your current party, you’ll still need to enter his clinic in the north of the map to initiate dialogue.
- This is a simple conversation, but it provides the first opportunity to establish a friendship or rivalry and take the initial steps on the road to forging a more intimate relationship with the troublous mage.
Companion Guidance:
- The first aggressive option (“Don’t do it again”) precludes future relationship opportunities and leads to a high rivalry increase. In general, rebuffing his advances (or otherwise disregarding his feelings) in a cruel or dismissive way will have a similar effect.
- For the highest possible friendship boost with Anders, pick:
- “It happens a lot.”
- “You did the right thing.”
- When he asks if he is making you uncomfortable: “No”.
- Male characters only should follow that with: “I’m sorry”.
Welcome Home
Requirements:
- Complete the Long Way Home main plot quest.
- Visit Merrill’s Home – it’s in Lowtown’s Elven Alienage district – and speak with her there. As with other such follow-up conversations, the quest ends once the dialogue is over.
Nice Crime You Have Around Here
Requirements:
- To obtain this mini-quest (actually just a simple but amusing conversation with Merrill at her home in Lowtown), you must fulfill at least one of the following conditions:
- Give Solivitus any of the three ingredients required for the Herbalist’s Tasks secondary quest.
- Complete Blackpowder Promise, Wayward Son or The Unbidden Rescue.
Fenris Recruited
Requirements:
- Starts on completion of the Bait and Switch secondary quest if you choose to enlist Fenris.
- Visit Fenris’s Mansion (previously Danarius’s Manor) and speak with the elf to complete the quest. Ideally, you should do this immediately after the conclusion of Bait and Switch, which leaves you standing right outside his front door. This conversation provides the first opportunity to establish a sexual relationship with Fenris through flirting or to quell the flickering embers of romance before they ever burst into flames.