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Dragon Age Inquisition eGuide The War Council

Agents

During your journeys through Ferelden and Orlais, look for opportunities to recruit agents for the Inquisition. Sometimes you must complete certain quests before an agent can be recruited. Other times you must simply talk to them—sometimes it takes convincing from a specific party member to close the deal. Once recruited, agents are assigned to Cullen, Leliana, or Josephine, reducing the amount of time it takes each advisor to complete missions on the war table. Agents also count as a perk point, reducing the threshold necessary to unlock advanced perks within a particular category.

Barter by Belle

After addressing the clerics, speak with Belle, a merchant in Val Royeaux. Frustrated by the lack of action taken by the templars and the Chantry, Belle wishes to join the Inquisition. Accepting Belle into the Inquisition unlocks the Barter by Belle perk, reducing the time it takes Josephine to complete missions by 5 percent.

Enchanter Ellendra

  • Locale: The Hinterlands
  • Affiliated Quest: My Lover’s Phylactery
  • Inquisition Perk: Enchanter Ellendra (Connections)

Ellendra can be convinced to join the Inquisition by Vivienne, following the sad news of her templar lover’s passing. Alternatively, you can convince her to join if you’re playing as a mage, have sided with the mages/templars, or have the arcane persuade conversation option.

Horsemaster Dennet

  • Locale: The Hinterlands
  • Affiliated Quest: Horses for the Inquisition
  • Inquisition Perk: Horsemaster Dennet (Inquisition)

Horsemaster Dennet admits his temptation to leave his lands and wife behind to join the Inquisition, but he is initially unwilling to make the commitment. However, Cassandra or Vivienne can convince him that the cause is righteous enough to join.

Lord Berand

  • Locale: The Hinterlands
  • Affiliated Quest: Love Waits
  • Inquisition Perk: Lord Berand (Forces or Connections)

When you return to Lord Berand at the end of the Love Waits quest, he can be persuaded to either join the Inquisition personally as a soldier or go home and use his influence to help the Inquisition. The Lord Berand perk reduces the amount of time it takes Cullen or Josephine to complete an operation by 5 percent.

Ritts

  • Locale: The Hinterlands
  • Affiliated Quest: Strange Bedfellows
  • Inquisition Perk: Witty Ritts (Secrets)

As part of the Strange Bedfellows quest, Varric or a dwarven Inquisitor is able to convince Ritts that her unique talents are useful, enough that she will become one of Leliana’s agents. This perk reduces the time it takes for Leliana to complete a war table operation by 5 percent.

Clemence

After meeting Alexius in the Gull & Lantern tavern in Redcliffe, speak to Clemence. Unhappy with his current role among the rebel mages, Clemence offers to join the Inquisition, giving you access to a new perk. This reduces the time it takes Cullen to complete operations by 5 percent.

Speaker Anais

  • Locale: The Hinterlands
  • Affiliated Quest: Praise the Herald of Andraste
  • Inquisition Perk: Speaker Anais (Secrets or Connections)

After closing the rift during the Praise the Herald of Andraste quest, ask Speaker Anais to “spread word of an Inquisition” to recruit an agent for Josephine (Connections). Or ask her to “listen and gather information” to make her an agent for Leliana (Secrets).

Tanner

  • Locale: The Hinterlands
  • Affiliated Quest: Business Arrangements
  • Inquisition Perk: Smuggler Tanner (Secrets)

A letter found on a dead templar suggests that Tanner is secretly doing business with the templars. Confront Tanner in Redcliffe, near the Chantry. Have Cassandra coerce Tanner into joining the Inquisition to unlock the Smuggler Tanner perk. This reduces the amount of time it takes for Leliana to complete operations by 5 percent.

Corporal Vale

  • Locale: The Hinterlands
  • Affiliated Quest: Various Hinterlands Quests
  • Inquisition Perk: Vale’s Irregulars (Forces)

After helping refugees at the Crossroads with a series of small quests, speak to Corporal Vale to receive one of three possible rewards as well as a perk. If you ask Corporal Vale to recruit skilled refugees, you’ll gain one power. If you ask that the refugees work for the Inquisition, you’ll earn gold. Or ask to grow the Inquisition’s reputation to make him an agent.

Sky Watcher

  • Locale: The Fallow Mire
  • Affiliated Quest: Rifts in the Mire
  • Inquisition Perk: Sky Watcher (Connections)

You encounter the Avvar named Sky Watcher; he is staring at a partially closed Fade rift in the Fallow Mire. Opening the Fade rift, killing the demons it spawns, and then properly sealing it with your mark will convince Sky Watcher that there is something to the Herald of Andraste. By doing this, you have a chance to recruit him, after rescuing the soldiers from Hargrave Keep. Be warned that once you exit the area, he’ll leave for good, so don’t forget to speak to him.

The Blades of Hessarian

  • Locale: The Storm Coast
  • Affiliated Quest: Cleaning House
  • Inquisition Perk: The Blades of Hessarian (Forces)

Craft and equip the Mercy’s Crest amulet before approaching the bandit camp—the guards will allow you to enter to challenge their leader. After defeating the Hessarian leader in combat, speak to one of the bandits. The Blades of Hessarian pledge their support to the Inquisition, becoming agents reporting directly to Cullen.

Jana

  • Locale: Crestwood
  • Affiliated Quest: None
  • Inquisition Perk: The Eager Recruit (Secrets)

After encountering the Grey Wardens on the road outside the north gate camp, enter the nearby house to speak with Jana—she’s excited the Grey Wardens saved her from the undead and wants to become a Warden herself. Convince her not to join the Grey Wardens. If Solas is in your party he can convince her to join the Inquisition instead.

Frederic

  • Locale: The Western Approach
  • Affiliated Quest: The Abyssal High Dragon
  • Inquisition Perk: Frederic of Serault (Secrets)

Frederic’s unique skills as an Orlesian draconologist come to the Inquisition only after a lengthy series of quests, culminating in the slaying of the Abyssal High Dragon. Afterward, he offers to join the Inquisition as a dragon expert. All you need to do is accept.

Loranil

  • Locale: The Exalted Plains
  • Affiliated Quest: By the Grace of the Dalish
  • Inquisition Perk: Loranil (Forces)

To be able to recruit Loranil, you must first earn favor with Keeper Hawen at the Dalish camp. Do this by completing requests of all the Dalish in the camp, and Hawen will admit that he sees your cause in a good enough light that he will allow one of his people to leave the camp. Loranil reduces Cullen’s operation times by 5 percent.

Fairbanks

  • Locale: Emerald Graves
  • Affiliated Quest: Noble Deeds, Noble Heart
  • Inquisition Perk: Fairbanks (Connections)

After an extensive series of quests, you have the ability to decide where the man who calls himself Fairbanks ends up: as an agent for the Inquisition or a noble for Orlais, trying to do right for the Dales.

Ser Barris

If choose to ally with the templars and complete Champions of the Just, Ser Barris joins the Inquisition. He serves under Commander Cullen, reducing the time it takes to complete Cullen’s missions by 5 percent.

Michel de Chevin

  • Locale: Emprise du Lion
  • Affiliated Quest: Call Me Imshael
  • Inquisition Perk: Michel de Chevin (Forces)

Speak to Michel outside the village to learn of Imshael. Defeat Imshael at Suledin Keep and then return to Michel, recruiting him as an agent of the Inquisition, serving under Cullen. If you encounter and defeat Imshael before speaking to Michel, he won’t join the Inquisition.

Alexius

  • Locale: Skyhold
  • Affiliated Quest: Sit in Judgment
  • Inquisition Perk: A Magister in Disgrace (Secrets)

If you took Alexius alive following the events at Redcliffe Castle, you can judge him at Skyhold. Sentence him to research magic for the Inquisition to make him an agent serving under Leliana.

Servis

  • Locale: Skyhold
  • Affiliated Quest: Sit in Judgment
  • Inquisition Perk: Servis (Secrets)

After confronting Servis in the Western Approach, return to Skyhold to judge him. Servis can be conscripted as an informant, supplying useful information to Leliana.

Florianne

  • Locale: Skyhold
  • Affiliated Quest: Sit in Judgment
  • Inquisition Perk: The Noble Cadaver (Connections)

If Florianne was killed at Halamshiral, you have the opportunity to judge her remains at Skyhold. Sentence her to community service to give Josephine another agent.