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Dragon Age: Origins eGuide Walkthrough Side Quests

Favors for Certain Interested Parties

Correspondence Interruptus

Type: Collection

Start: Bartender in Gnawed Noble Tavern

Destination: Various locations

Task: Collect 12 love letters from chests

Quest Tips: Find all 12 love letters in the following locations:

  • Brecilian Ruins (south, secret hallway just inside entrance)
  • Circle Tower (Senior Mage Quarters, behind wall in east bedroom)
  • Dalish Camp (just north of Varathorn)
  • Denerim (Pearl, one of the back rooms)
  • Denerim (Wade's Emporium)
  • Denerim (Arl Eamon's Estate, Arl's bedroom upstairs)
  • Haven (Villager House, along the wall)
  • Lake Calenhad Docks (Spoiled Princess, northeast corner of the inn)
  • Orzammar (Carta Hideout, southeast corner room of Jarvia encounter)
  • Orzammar (Royal Palace, small room on east side of palace)
  • Redcliffe Basement (northwest alcove)
  • Redcliffe Village (Windmill, east side)

"K" Quests

*** Negotiation Aids ***

Type: Collection

Start: Bartender in Gnawed Noble Tavern

Destination: Various vendors

Task: Collect 15 toxin extracts

Quest Tips: This is the first in the series of "K" quests. During your travels, it's easy enough to collect 15 toxin extracts. Visit local vendors and collect a handful at a time. The best vendor is Varathorn in the Dalish camp (who can give you all the toxin extracts in one shot), or you can visit Cesar in the Denerim Market District, Faryn in Frostback Mountains, Alimar's in Orzammar, Olinda's in Orzammar.

*** Untraceable ***

Type: Collection

Start: Bartender in Gnawed Noble Tavern

Destination: Various vendors

Task: Collect 10 garnets

Quest Tips: This is the second in the series of "K" quests. Save up all your garnet drops from adventuring. If you've already sold some of them off, retrace your steps and buy them back from the various vendors. Turn in 10 garnets to complete the quest.

*** Dead Drops ***

Type: Messenger

Start: Bartender in Gnawed Noble Tavern

Destination: Four different locations

Task: Make three drops and escape from a trap

Quest Tips: This is the third in the series of "K" quests. Deliver payment to the following locations: Denerim Market District, Redcliffe Village, Spoiled Princess at Lake Calenhad Docks, and the Frostback Mountains. The fourth location you visit will be a trap. You have an option to disarm/detonate other traps, but this will cancel the "K" quests, so fight through the trap the hard way.

*** New Ground ***

Type: Combat

Start: Bartender in Gnawed Noble Tavern

Destination: Denerim and random encounter

Task: Signal three people with K's wink and nod, signal guard contact, kill D's lieutenant, kill D

Quest Tips: Note this is the fourth in the series of "K" quests. Finishing this quest will remove the end of the "D" line of quests. First, signal three people with K's special wink and nod. Second, signal the guard contact. Third, kill D's lieutenant in a random city encounter and take the directions from the lieutenant's corpse to find D's location on the Denerim city map. Finally, kill D himself in the indoor area.

"D" Quests

*** Solving Problems ***

Type: Messenger

Start: Bartender in Gnawed Noble Tavern

Destination: Three places in Denerim

Task: Dispose of three bodies for the rogues' guild

Quest Tips: This is the first in the series of "D" quests. Collect three bodies and dispose of them at the marked "dumped site" inside the Chantry walls. Find the bodies in the following locations: Market District (alley beside the Chantry), the Warehouse in the Wonders of Thedas alley (in the back room), and the Pearl (one of the back rooms).

*** Sign of Safe Passage ***

Type: Combat

Start: Bartender in Gnawed Noble Tavern

Destination: Brecilian West Forest

Task: Fire a messenger arrow from a location in the Brecilian West Forest

Quest Tips: This is the second in the series of "D" quests. Fire an arrow from a firing point just east of the south entrance of the Brecilian West Forest (you must equip a bow on your main PC to do this). Fight the mercenaries that arrive, and loot the folded missive from one of the corpses when you're finished with them.

*** False Witness ***

Type: Combat

Start: Bartender in Gnawed Noble Tavern

Destination: Three different locations across the map

Task: Kill Cam of Redside, Skinny Frank, and Brian

Quest Tips: This is the third in the series of "D" quests. You must hunt down three unfortunates who have stolen from the guild: Cam of Redside in the Wonders of Thedas, Skinny Frank at the Lake Calenhad Docks, and Brian in the Frostback Mountains. Cam and Skinny Frank have bodyguards to worry about too; poor Brian is, well, a pushover.

*** Harsh Decisions ***

Type: Combat

Start: Bartender in Gnawed Noble Tavern

Destination: Denerim and random encounter

Task: Kill K's lieutenant, kill K

Quest Tips: This is the fourth in the series of "D" quests. Finishing this quest will remove the end of the "K" line of quests. First, travel on the Denerim city map and you'll trigger a random encounter with K's lieutenant. Slay him and his guards and pick up the hideout directions from the lieutenant's corpse. Next, travel to K's hideout on the Denerim city map. Slay K and his men. Return to the Gnawed Noble bartender for your reward.