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Dragon Age: Origins Hints

Redcliffe Castle - Main Floor

  • 1 of 9: Exit the room you start in, then stand and wait for animated corpses to come to you.
  • 2 of 9: When they stop coming, go through the nearby door and fight a greater shade and three lesser shades.
  • 3 of 9: Read the book in the shades' room for a codex entry, then return to the hallway and go over to its open east door to get the attention of some more corpses.
  • 4 of 9: Past the east door in the corpses' room are a ranked devouring corpse and several more shambling corpses.
  • 5 of 9: Stay back while fighting them, then enter their room to get the attention of some enraged corpses in the hallway to the east.
  • 6 of 9: Have your rogue spot and disable the trap in the hallway, then check its three northern rooms to find two cabinets, an armoire, a wooden crate, and Valena. (She's involved in the "Lost in the Castle" quest.)
  • 7 of 9: Have your party hold position at the east end of the hallway, then send one character through its south door and have him open the next room's east door.
  • 8 of 9: Lure corpses back to your party a few at a time, then go through their room.
  • 9 of 9: In the short hallway past it, loot the two wooden crates, then use the area transition doorway to enter the basement's cellar area.