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Fool's Gold
1 of 12: This quest will only be available if you chose the "Hero of Fereldan" history (or loaded a Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening save in which you didn't recruit Nathaniel, or you did and he died at Vigil's Keep) while customizing your character at the beginning of the game.
2 of 12: Go to Hightown during the day and talk to the dwarf named Yevhen, who's standing in the SE corner of the Merchants Guild area.
3 of 12: Agree to find his sons, then travel to the new Deep Roads destination on the Free Marches map.
4 of 12: Move forward and through the wall hole on your right, then run around to where a bunch of hurlocks will attack you.
5 of 12: Finish them off and head north, watching for some lootable rubble near a campfire. Just past that, you'll find Emrys.
6 of 12: After you talk to him, you'll need to choose who to rescue: Merin or Iwan. You can only save one of them. (Note that in either case, you should first explore the area to the south for spiders to kill and bones to loot in the little side room.)
7 of 12: After you get Iwan's golem control rod, go east to get onto another road section, then look south to find the golem that the rod controls.
8 of 12: Right-click on it to activate it, then go north to find five hostile golems that you can't control. Hang back and take them on one or two at a time, and use cold and electricity attacks as much as you can.
9 of 12: Go west from the north end of the road to find some darkspawn to kill, including an emissary and an ogre. Quickly finish off the emissary, then kill as many hurlocks as you can before the ogre shows up.
10 of 12: Loot the pile of bones in the SE corner of their room, then go into the north room and up its stairs to find some lootable rubble, a locked chest, a "treasure cache" container, and a lyrium-laced bilge hoop that'll give you the side quest of the same name.
11 of 12: Go back south, then head west to find a room with some lootable bones and an exit door.
12 of 12: Travel to Hightown on the Kirkwall Day map and talk to Yevhen to finish the quest. (Note that if you rescued Iwan, you can either lie about his treachery or reveal it.)
