Wide Open World

Wide Open World

The Black Vials

Type: Combat

Start: Find a glass phylactery associated with the quest

Destination: Civil War location marked on world map

Task: Find six secret locations and defeat a revenant at each location

Quest Tips: Find the black vials located in the following six locations and slay the revenants guarding them:

• Circle Tower (Senior Mage Quarters, statue room)
• Denerim (Back Alley)
• Orzammar Palace (back room)
• Deep Roads (Caridin's Cross near exit)
• Brecilian Ruins (Lower Ruins, small southeast room)
• Brecilian Ruins (Lair of the Werewolf, northwest werewolf bedroom)

Dominance

Type: Exploration

Start: Any of the 10 locations

Destination: Various places

Task: Take control of Dog and mark 10 landmarks

Quest Tips: While in control of Dog, click on the following 12 locations:

• King's Camp in Ostagar (Landmark Woodpile)
• Lothering (Landmark Tree northeast of Lothering) Dalish Camp (Landmark Tent—Zathrian's)
• Brecilian West Forest (Landmark Tree beside Grand Oak)
• Brecilian East Forest (Landmark Tent in Hermit's camp)
• Lake Calenhad Docks (Landmark Boat by Sammael the Destroyer)
• Redcliffe Village (Landmark Tree beside windmill)
• Redcliffe Castle Courtyard (Landmark Tree in castle courtyard)
• Denerim Alienage (Landmark Tree in center)
• Denerim Market District (Landmark Wagon)

Once you mark a location, Dog receives a buff whenever he's in the area that's been marked, making him more effective in combat.

Unbound

Type: Combat

Start: Find an adventurer's corpse associated with the quest

Destination: Four various locations

Task: Find three adventurers and then confront Gaxkang in Denerim

Quest Tips: Find the adventurer's corpse in the Ruined Temple on the "Urn of Sacred Ashes" quest (southwest corridor). Find the adventurer's corpse in the Brecilian Ruins' Lower Ruins (south fire trap room). In Orzammar, head to Tapster's Tavern and speak to the adventurer within. Travel back to Denerim and head to the Dirty Back Alley. Open the house door on your left and kill Gaxkang for your reward, one of the best one-hand sword/shield combos in the game.