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Dalish Lore FAQ

This post is intended on answering frequently asked questions about the Dalish elves, with a mixture of both canon and my own assumptions and interpretations. (I will make it clear when the latter is the case.)

“How large are Dalish clans?”

This varies from clan to clan. In Dragon Age Inquisition, Hawen’s clan has only 14 members that we ever meet. This seems incredibly, incredibly small to me and I want to consider it an outlier. In The Masked Empire, it is said that there are about 50 members of Clan Virnehn. This seems a more reasonably average number to me, as it also corresponds with the number of Dalish elves we see in Zathrian’s Clan in Dragon Age Origins, (40 total, with many more having died according to Zathrian). So, I would say a reasonable guess would be around 50 for most, with room for some clans to be much larger or much smaller.

“Do Dalish clans ever take in other elves?”

Absolutely; there are multiple examples of this:

Pol from the Denerim Alienage joined Clan Sabrae (Dragon Age: Origins)

Aneirin from the Circle of Magi escapes and joined Zathrian’s clan (Dragon Age: Origins)

An unnamed elven refugee (as he is labelled) and his family are seen with Zathrian’s clan, commenting “Thank the Maker the Dalish have given us refuge here amongst them” and “the Dalish have been very welcoming. They act like we are all one family. It is so strange to us.” (Dragon Age: Origins)

Feynriel from the Kirkwall Alienage joined Clan Sabrae (Dragon Age: II)

Vaea’s uncle Coran joined Clan Boranehn (Dragon Age: Knight Errant)

“What is the relationship between Dalish elves and city elves?”

I have a whole post about this here: [Link]

“How do the Dalish feel about spirits?”

In Dragon Age Origins, Tamlen says that Hahren Paivel warned him against the dangers of spirits, saying “spirits are jealous of us, and always try to steal our souls.” This is parallel to what is written in The World of Thedas vol. 1: “unlike other spellcasters, Dalish mages do not use any magic involving spirits, as they believe all spirits are dangerous.” However, the Dalish do not view spirits/demons as evil beings. Fellassan says in The Masked Empire, “unlike mages in the Circle, the Dalish do not think of demons as evil, but as wild animals, dangerous if treated carelessly.” Although this sentiment does not mean no Dalish elf ever deals with spirits. Merrill dealt with Audacity to try and repair her eluvian. Clan Virnhen summoned Imshael and tried to bind him. Valorin from the quest Someone to Loose summoned a spirit to try and find Lindiranae’s Talisman. It just means that they see this as a dangerous road to travel.

“How do the Dalish feel about magic?”

I have a whole post about this here: [Link]

“Does the average Dalish elf know the elven language?”

While keeping in mind that the elven language in modern Thedas times has limited fluency for anyone, due to ages of it being outlawed, yes, the average Dalish elf would have at least some knowledge of the elven language; enough to hold a conversation in the least. This is evidenced in The Stolen Throne: Maric and Loghain come across a group of elven hunters who speak Elvhen among themselves. The two humans are even surprised that they speak Common as well. One of the elves explains that among their clan, they try to speak as much of it as possible to keep the language alive.

“You speak the King’s tongue?” Loghain asked. He distinctly ignored the I told you so look that Maric shot his way. “Most of us do, though only those who go out to trade with the outsiders get to use it often.” The elf’s manner was gentle, and his eyes seemed filled with compassion, unlike the expressions of the others around them. “Here in the clan, we try to keep our own tongue alive, just as we do our gods.”

“How old is a Dalish elf when they receive their vallaslin?”

Receiving vallaslin is a mark of adulthood, and there is no specific age this occurs; it is done when the elf is deemed ready by the Keeper who applies it. There is, though, two examples of elves receiving their vallaslin before the age of 20: in The Masked Empire, Briala notes this about Mihris: “She was not yet twenty, and the tattoos on her face were fresh and sharp, a year old at most.” And in Dragon Age Inquisition, the journal found written by Valoren in the quest Someone to Loose says this: “I’m almost seventeen. I have my vallaslin; I’m ready to learn more than simple spells.” This suggests that it is normal for elves to receive their vallaslin in their late teens. There is though, also the case of elves receiving vallaslin later in biological adulthood if for example, they joined the clan later in life. One such example of this would be Coran from Knight Errant. In such a case, I imagine it would all fall back to again, when the Keeper deems the elf ready.

“What is Dalish cuisine like?”

When considering what Dalish elf diets are like, one must consider where they are located, as most clans rely on hunting and foraging, with some trading in some cases. A stationary clan might partake in some farming, but that is not as common as nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle. According to The World of Thedas vol. 2’s example Dalish dish, “Deep Forest Comfort”, the Dalish milk their halla for butter and cheese. They use bugs like beetles, wildflowers like borage or chicory, and pine nuts for garnish and flavouring. But I imagine most dishes would be plain in nature, prioritizing preservation, especially in winter months.

“What do the Dalish do with their dead?”

Funeral services are prepared by Hahrens. The Dalish bury their dead with an oak staff and cedar branch to help them stay on the path through the Beyond, and to keep away the ravens known as Fear and Deceit from tricking the passing spirit. Trees are planted above the grave(s)–known as a vallasdahlen (”life trees”). In Dragon Age Origins, Merrill says it is important to return the deceased’s body to the earth if at all possible. The Dalish also have sacred burial sites with multiple graves, like Sundermount in Dragon Age II and Var Bellanaris in Dragon Age Inquisition, where ancestors were buried and where nearby Dalish clans still tend to and bury their dead in.

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SOURCES:

Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age: II

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Dragon Age: The World of Thedas vol. 1

Dragon Age: The World of Thedas vol. 2

Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne

Dragon Age: The Masked Empire

Dragon Age: Knight Errant

Codex entry: Vallaslin: Blood Writing (DA:O)

Codex entry: Falon'Din: Friend of the Dead, the Guide (DA:O)

Codex entry: Vallasdahlen (DA:I)

Dialogue with Pol about running away from the city (DA:O)

Dialogue with Aneirin about Zathrian’s clan (DA:O)

Dialogue with elven refugee about finding safety with Zathrian’s clan (DA:O)

Dialogue with Merrill about finding Tamlen’s body (DA:O)

Dialogue with Paivel about Tamlen’s funeral service (DA:O)

Dialogue with Hawen about Var Bellanaris (DA:I)

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Also Known As: Dragon Age 2

Genre: Role-Playing, Third-Person 3D Action RPG Developer: BioWare Publisher: Electronic Arts ESRB Rating: Mature Release Date: March 8, 2011

Hints

Location Of Gift Item For: Carver

You can find it in Act 1 – Tobrius’s Documents, Birthright Quest, in the Amell Estate Cellar to find this Gift Item.

Location Of Gift Item For: Anders

You can find it in Act 2 – Tevinter Chanty Amulet, Fenris Companion Quest A Bitter Pill, in the Abandon Slaver Den

Location Of Gift Item For: Aveline

You can find it in Act 2 – Shield of the Knight Herself, Offered and Lost Main Quests, in Ser Vernel’s Refuge to find this Gift Item.

Location Of Gift Item For: Fenris

You can find it in Act 2 – A Slave’s Life and Act 3 – Blade of Mercy (Best Served Cold Main Quest). During Act 2 you’ll find a Gift Item in a sack at the Elven Alienage at Lowtown during the nighttime. Then you’ll find the second item during a Secret Meeting Place in the Best Served Cold Main Quest.

Location Of Gift Item For: Isabela

You can find it in Act 2 – Ship in a Bottle (during the Blackpowder Courtesy Main Quest) and Act 3 – Rivani Talisman. For Act 2, you’ll find the Gift Item during Smuggler’s Cut. For Act 3, look in the Dissused Passage at the docks during the nighttime.

Location Of Gift Item For: Merril

You can find it in Act 2 – Wooden Halla Carving and Act 3 – Sylvanwood Ring (Murder of Crows Quest) For Act 2, this gift item will be a purchase at Ilen’s Craft Shop at Sundermount. For Act 3, you’ll need to loot the Thief Leader either during the Murder of Crows Quest or upon entering Sudermount.

Location Of Gift Item For: Varric

You can find it in Act 2 – The Tethras Signet Ring. You’ll find this Gift Item sold at the Trinket’s Emporium in Lowtown.

Location Of Gift Item For: Sebastian

You can find it in Act 2 – Strakhaven Longbow, Companions Quest Repentance. You’ll find this final Gift Item within the Harimann Estate.

Location: Gift Item For Bethany

You can find it in Act 1: Portrait Of Your Mother, Birthright Quest. You shouldcheck in the Amell Estate Cellar to find this Gift Item.

Cheats

Unlimited Level Up And XP Exploit

More Unlimited Gold Reward

Go to Kirkwall and start the quest in the chantry called “Sister Plinth’s Remains.” While returning her remains to her brother, DON’T MOVE! Not moving prevents the exploit from working. Just keep pressing the button to turn over the remains and the brother will keep giving you the reward. Note: You find the remains in Darktown in the top right corner of the map. They are surrounded by a bunch of soldiers.

Get Infinite Gold And Experience

Complete any of the side quests that do not activate a cut-scene when receiving your reward. These include South-Song Gerralt’s Corpse Side-Quest, or any of the find-and-deliver side-quests. Then save your game. Draw your weapon and approach the NPC. While your character is putting their weapon away to talk to the NPC, quickly and repeatedly press A to get unlimited money and experience. You can keep doing this until you move your character. Keep doing it over and over to get unlimited!

Unlockables

Currently we have no unlockables for Dragon Age II yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.

Easter eggs

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Glitches

Glitch: Unlimited Armor Points

You can do this with Hawke and Aveline during game play. Just equip then un-equip, and then equip your shield. Your Armor stat/percentage will constantly increase as you do so! You can max out your Armor Points by doing this. This may be fixed if there is an update.

Guides

Currently no guide available.

Trophies

DLC Achievements

“The Stone Prisoner”

Rock and a Hard Place (Bronze) – Completed “The Golem in Honnleath”.

Stone’s Lament (Bronze) – Completed “A Golem’s Memories”.

“Warden’s Keep”

Diabolist (Bronze) – Took advantage of Avernus’s research.

Master of the Peak (Bronze) – Completed “Soldier’s Peak”.

“Awakening”

The Enduring Vigil (Bronze) – Acquired all upgrades for Vigil’s Keep.

Awakening (Gold) – Completed Dragon Age – Origins – Awakening.

Commander of the Grey (Bronze) – Reached level 30.

Savior of Kal’Hirol (Bronze) – Destroyed the broodmothers in Kal’Hirol.

Blind Vengeance (Bronze) – Escaped the silverite mines.

Pride Before The Fall (Bronze) – Defeated the baroness.

Amaranthine’s Last Hope (Bronze) – Saved the city of Amaranthine.

Keeper of the Vigil (Bronze) – Saved Vigil’s Keep.

“Darkspawn Chronicles”

Bane of Thedas (Bronze) – Handed victory to the archdemon by killing Ferelden’s last Grey Warden.

Enthralling (Bronze) – Earned maximum approval from all types of thralls.

Ogre’s Keeper (Silver) – Kept the initial ogre alive through the whole story.

“Leliana’s Song”

Provocateur (Bronze) – Collected and assembled the Battledress of the Provocateur.

Turning Point (Bronze) – Heard Lelian’s version of her betrayal.

Vendetta (Bronze) – Destroyed the career of Guard Captain Eams.

“Golems Of Amgarrak”

Reaper (Bronze) – Defeated the Harvester.

Grim Reaper (Bronze) – Defeated the Harvester on Hard or Nightmare difficulty.

A Secret Stitched Together (Bronze) – Gathered all of the research notes in Amgarrak.

“Witch Hunt”

A Time of Wood and Stone (Bronze) – Gathered the lost lore of Cadaish Thaig.

Through the Looking Glass (Bronze) – Completed the scrying ritual.

Varterral’s Fall (Bronze) – Defeated the varterral on Hard or Nightmare difficulty.

Witch Hunter (Bronze) – Completed “Witch Hunt”.

Trophy List

Annulment Invoker (Bronze) – Sided with the templars in “Broken Circle”.

Archmage (Silver) – Main character achieved level 20 as a mage.

Bhelen’s Ally (Bronze) – Sided with Bhelen in “A Paragon of Her Kind”.

Blight-Queller (Gold) – Killed 1000 darkspawn.

Bloodied (Bronze) – Completed an origin story without the main character ever falling in battle.

Bully (Bronze) – Succeeded at five difficult Intimidate attempts.

Casteless (Bronze) – Completed the Dwarf Commoner origin story.

Ceremonialist (Bronze) – Defied the Cult of Andraste in “The Urn of Sacred Ashes”.

Conscripted (Bronze) – Completed the City Elf origin story.

Corrupted (Bronze) – Completed the Dalish Elf origin story.

Easy Lover (Bronze) – Experienced the thrill of romance with Zevran.

Educated (Bronze) – Used a tome to improve the main character’s attributes, talents, spells, or skills.

Elite (Bronze) – Main character learned two specializations.

First Knight (Bronze) – Experienced the thrill of romance with Alistair.

Grey Warden (Bronze) – Killed 100 darkspawn.

Harrowed (Bronze) – Completed the Magi origin story.

Harrowmont’s Ally (Bronze) – Sided with Harrowmont in “A Paragon of Her Kind”.

Heavy Hitter (Bronze) – Main character inflicted 250 damage with a single hit.

Hero of Redcliffe (Bronze) – Completed “The Arl of Redcliffe”.

Hopelessly Romantic (Bronze) – Across all playthroughs, experienced all possible romances.

Kinslayer (Bronze) – Completed the Dwarf Noble origin story.

Last of the Wardens (Bronze) – Completed Ostagar.

Last of Your Line (Bronze) – Completed the Human Noble origin story.

Liberator (Bronze) – Destroyed the Anvil of the Void.

Magic Sympathizer (Bronze) – Sided with the mages in “Broken Circle”.

Master of Arms (Silver) – Main character achieved level 20 as a warrior.

Master Warden (Silver) – Killed 500 darkspawn.

Menacing (Bronze) – Succeeded at 10 difficult Intimidate attempts.

Mercenary (Bronze) – Complete 15 job-board quests.

Perfectionist (Bronze) – Across all playthroughs, discovered all possible endings.

Persuasive (Bronze) – Succeeded at five difficult Persuasion attempts.

Pilgrim (Bronze) – Completed a Chanter’s Board quest.

Poacher (Bronze) – Sided with the elves in “Nature of the Beast”.

Pragmatist (Bronze) – Preserved the Anvil of the Void.

Rabble-Rouser (Bronze) – Completed “The Landsmeet”.

Recruiter (Bronze) – Across all playthroughs, recruited all party members.

Sacrilegious (Bronze) – Sided with the Cult of Andraste in “The Urn Of Sacred Ashes”.

Shadow (Silver) – Main character achieved level 20 as a rogue.

Silver Tongued (Bronze) – Succeeded at 25 difficult Persuasion attempts.

Slayer (Bronze) – Sided with the werewolves in “Nature of the Beast”.

Standard-Bearer (Bronze) – Used the Grey Warden treaties to recruit all possible allies.

The Ultimate Reward (Platinum) – Completed all Bronze, Silver and Gold Trophies.

Tinkerer (Bronze) – Crafted an item.

Traveler (Bronze) – Set foot in every area in the game.

Veteran (Bronze) – Main character learned a specialization.

Wine, Woman, and Song (Bronze) – Experienced the thrill of romance with Leliana.

Witch Gone Wild (Bronze) – Experienced the thrill of romance with Morrigan.

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