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Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Hints
East Side Tips
1 of 14: Look directly east of the winding path that leads down to the west side's lower ground for a dead scholar to loot.
2 of 14: Go down the path that leads south from the scholar, watching for shrieks to appear both in front of you and behind.
3 of 14: After killing them off, continue south to reach a large, fancy stone design on the ground. This is where the dead scholar's strange stone comes in handy, but ignore it for now.
4 of 14: Park your party near the stone design and send one character north to lure in the many darkspawn that are up there a few at a time. After that's done, have him lure in the two ancient sylvans who are a bit NE of the stone design one at a time.
5 of 14: Once they're all taken care of, you're free to investigate the stone design.
6 of 14: When you successfully complete the sequence, a mystic chest will appear in the center of the stone design. Loot it to get a magic amulet called Illumination.
7 of 14: Go SW from the stone design to find a sloping path leading up to a madcap plant and another engraved statue.
8 of 14: On your way back down, go over to where the nearby wild sylvan will "activate" and attack you. Kill it, then go down to where the special wild sylvan called The Old One will attack you. (You don't want to have to fight both trees at once.)
9 of 14: Loot the Old One for heartwood to get the Vigil's Keep optional quest "Heart of the Forest," then check the hill to the east for a deathroot plant, a corpse, and the person you need to find for the "Ines the Botanist" optional quest.
10 of 14: After talking to her, return to the stone design area, then go north to where you found all the darkspawn. Look for a deathroot plant near two special statues, then talk to the Statue of War to get the "Brothers of Stone" optional quest.
11 of 14: Finish it, then go north to the main darkspawn camp area. There may still be a hurlock emissary and possibly other darkspawn nearby, so finish them off before looting the camp's two chests (one of which is locked).
12 of 14: Get onto the higher ground north of the camp to find another chest, a rashvine, and another engraved statue.
13 of 14: Follow the path that leads west to find a blood lotus plant, followed by the northern prickleweed plant that Ines wants the seeds from.
14 of 14: After getting the seeds, go SW to find an elfroot plant and a granite deposit that's related to the Vigil's Keep optional quest "What is Built Endures."
