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Dragon Age: Origins Hints
Explore Cadash Thaig.
1 of 19: Move along the wrecky road until you meet up with some darkspawn. If you charge them, shrieks will appear all around you, so try to blast the darkspawn from a distance with spells before closing in.
2 of 19: The road ends right past the main darkspawn group, so enter the north tunnel.
3 of 19: Loot the rubble in the tunnel, then move on to where Shale talks to you. Have everyone hold position there, then use the Lead-Them-Off Strategy on the darkspawn in the large area ahead.
4 of 19: Loot the strange crystal cluster near the large area's SE corner, then look for a chest on the small platform in its NW corner.
5 of 19: Continue down the paved path to encounter a darkspawn group that includes a spellcasting emissary. It's a good idea to try to lead them off a few at a time.
6 of 19: Search the emissary to get the Blood-Gorged Amulet, then loot the nearby pile of junk and locked chest.
7 of 19: Park your party next to the big curvy stone bridge, then send one character across to lure in some deep stalkers. After they're down, take the party across the bridge and start firing ranged attacks at all the darkspawn and deep stalkers who are fighting each other.
8 of 19: Look for a wooden crate to loot a bit NW of the bridge, then go south of the bridge to find some rubble up on a platform.
9 of 19: Have your rogue lead the way west slowly, looking for traps to disarm. Just past them is a small deep stalker ambush, so try to disarm all the traps before activating it.
10 of 19: Loot the pile of bones and pile of junk that are just past the stalker ambush, then go south and look for a pile of bones in an east-side passage. Farther south is another east-side passage with a locked chest and a large stalker ambush.
11 of 19: There's yet another big stalker ambush a bit south of that. If you're careful, you can trigger it one stage at a time. After it's over, look to the east for a pile of bones.
12 of 19: Check the rubble that's just past the stalker ambush area, then park your party a ways to the east of that so you can send one character ahead to lure back darkspawn.
13 of 19: Take the party west and into the back alley area with a chest and a pile of bones. Before you get to loot them, you'll have to kill a shriek ambush that includes a shriek alpha. Also look for a genlock rogue ambush on the path just to the east of that.
14 of 19: Use the old lure-them-back strategy on the darkspawn in the area to the north. Note that the genlock alpha is a very powerful archer, so if you can't lure him to the group, charge him with everyone after finishing off all the other darkspawn.
15 of 19: After clearing your way to the next bridge, look to the south for a chest before crossing it and the following bridge.
16 of 19: In the grassy area past the second bridge, watch out for a big ogre alpha charging you. As you fight the ogre, shrieks will start appearing one by one. Try to dodge the ogre long enough to kill them as they appear, then finish the ogre off.
17 of 19: Loot the ogre to get several items, then loot the two strange crystal clusters and the broken chest.
18 of 19: Examine the big golem monument to find out who Shale was before he became a golem.
19 of 19: That concludes the quest, so use the nearby bridge's transition point to access the Deep Roads map.
