Mark of the Assassin Caprice Coin Quest

To complete the Wishing Well quest, collect all five caprices at the party at Chateau Haine and throw them into the fountain. You will be reward with one attribute point.

1. One caprice is on a barrel near the wyvern, Leopold: 

2. One is on the bench on the other side of the wall near Comtesse de Launcet:

3. Another is on a bench found behind Leliana:

4. One is found in the Other section at the "Hunting Stores" shop in the banquet area:

5. The final caprice cannot be missed. It is always given by Lord Cyril by progressing on the main quest:

Enabling the Developer Console for Dragon Age 2

1. If you do not already have a short cut for DragonAge2.exe on the desktop, create one. Find the location of your DragonAge2.exe file:
   • Typically you should find it in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Dragon Age 2\bin_ship or C:\Program Files\Dragon Age 2\bin_ship\DragonAge2.exe
   • For Steam you should find it in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\dragon age ii\bin_ship\
2. Right click on the DragonAge2 file, and select "Create Short Cut" or "Desktop (create short cut)."

3. Right click on the short cut on the desktop and select "Properties". Go to the "Target" box. At the end of the line in the "Target" box add a space and type in -enabledeveloperconsole (see image below).

4. Test to see if you did everything correctly. Launch the game from the short cut. Start a game, and press the ~ key (do not hold the shift key) to start the console. Then type in a command such as runscript zz_dae_debug and then press the enter key. (Note that everything typed into the console will not be visible. Also, the game will freeze once the ~ key is pressed, and will only unfreeze once the enter key is pressed.)

Note: While the developer console is active, your profile will not update to the BioWare website. If you want your profile to update again, you must remove the -enabledeveloperconsole from the Dragon Age 2 short cut.

Legacy Larius Power Nexus Puzzle Part 2

After completing the first part of the Riannon's floor puzzle, you can solve the second part of the puzzle to receive the helmet for the Regalia of Weisshaupt set.

First, activate the purple, red and green Power Nexuses as shown on the map below.

 

Return to the puzzle room, and rotate the columns until each stream turns white. The image below is the solution to the puzzle. The nine circles represent the bottom rings on the nine columns, and the line on the circles represent the power nexuses attached to the bottom ring. Rotate the columns so that the bottom two power nexuses are in position as shown in the image.

Nexus Puzzle Solution

Once the puzzle is solved, the barrier door at the north east of the map will come down. A piece of the Regalia of Wisshaupt set can be found in a chest behind this barrier door.

Mark of the Assassin Fire Room Tile Puzzles

Inside the Vault, there is a room with a fire in the center with three sets of tiles. The clues to solve this puzzle are found in the three pictures revealed by completing the first color door puzzle, the flip tile picture puzzle, and the second color door puzzle.

Fire Puzzle Room.

The people with the hats and masks in each picture represent the tiles that must flipped over in the corresponding set of tiles. Therefore, the following is the solution for each set of tiles.

The north tile solution (outside the first color door puzzle room).

The east tile solution (outside the picture flip tile puzzle room).

The west tile solution (outside the second color door puzzle room).

Mark of the Assassin Second Color Door Puzzle

In the the second color door puzzle room, you will find a mixer, a white apparatus, a black apparatus, two black doors and one purple door. Each apparatuses lets you pick up their color one at a time. The colors are used to open up their corresponding door color. The main goal is to reach the room with the golem. Killing this golem, reveals a painting that is used to help solve the fire room puzzle.

Second Color Door Puzzle Room.

1. Click on the "black apparatus" to pick up the black color.
2. Unlock both black doors.
3. Click on the "white apparatus" to pick up the white color.
4. Go through the black door on the left that leads into a room with the white door.
5. Unlock the white door and go into its room.
6. Inside, click on the "blue apparatus" to pick up the blue color.
7. Go back to the main room with the mixer.
8. Click on the mixer to leave the color blue on it.
9. Go through the black door on the right that leads to the room with the blue door.
10. Go into the blue room and fight the Golem.
11. Inside the Golem room, click on the red apparatus to pick up the red color.
12. Go back to the main room with the mixer.
13. Click on the mixer to mix the red color with the blue color to create purple.
14. Click on the mixer again to pick up the purple color.
15. Use the purple color to unlock the purple door and to get into the treasure room.

Mark of the Assassin First Color Door Puzzle

If coming into the Vaults from the north of the Dungeon, you will come into the first color door puzzle room. There you will find a mixer, a white apparatus, a black apparatus, two white doors and yellow door. The apparatuses let you pick up one color at a time. The colors are used to open up their corresponding door color. The main goal is to reach the room with the golem. Killing the golem, reveals a picture that is used to solve the fire room puzzle.

First Color Door Puzzle Room

1. Click on the "white apparatus" to pick up the white color.
2. Unlock both white doors.
3. Click on the "black apparatus" to pick up the black color.
4. Go through the white door on the right and into the room with the black door.
5. Unlock the black door and go inside.
6. Click on the "blue apparatus" to pick up the blue color.
7. Go back to the main room with the mixer.
8. Click on the mixer to leave the blue color on it.
9. Go through the left white door and into the room with the blue door.
10. Unlock the blue door and fight the golem.
11. Inside the golem room, click on the "yellow apparatus" to to pick up the yellow color.
12. Go back out to the main room with the mixer.
13. Unlock the yellow door.
14. Click on the mixer to add the yellow color to the blue color to create green.
15. Take the green color from the mixer and go through the yellow door.
16. Unlock green door to get into a treasure room.

Mark of the Assassin Recipe Puzzle

Hard to Stomach quest room.

During Mark of the Assassin, you may come across the quest, "Hard to Stomach". To complete the quest you must contaminate Leopold's food by doing the following:

1. Click on the "mixture" bottle to reset the puzzle if needed.
2. Click on the Lutefish twice to add 4 parts of Lutefish to the recipe.
3. Click on the Navet five times to add 5 parts of Navet to the recipe.
4. Click on the Old Cheese once to add 3 parts of the Old Cheese to the recipe.
5. The quest icon should appear above the "mixture" bottle. Click on it.
6. Click on Leopold's food to complete the quest.

Mark of the Assassin Flip Tile Picture Puzzle

In the Vaults, you will find a flip tile puzzle. The goal is to flip the tiles to complete the picture of the man. If the tiles are not in their default position, reset the puzzle by pulling the lever. Then just click on the tiles as labeled 1-15.

Click on the tiles numbered 1-15.

Completed picture.

Completing this puzzle will reveal a painting on the wall. This painting is used to help with solving the fire room puzzle.

Legacy Larius Power Nexus Puzzle Part 1

If you sided with Larius over Janeka during the Legacy DLC, you will end up trapped in a room on Riannon's Floor. You must solve a puzzle in the room to be able to exit the room.

Power Nexus Puzzle Room

The puzzle consists of nine columns, each with four rings. Each of these rings have two power nexuses connected to them. The goal of the puzzle is rotate the columns so that the power nexuses connect the two orange beams.

The image below shows the solution to the puzzle. The nine circles represent the bottom rings on the columns, and the two lines coming out of the circles represent the two power nexuses attached to the ring. Rotate the columns so that the bottom rings on each column are in position as shown in the image.

Power Nexus Puzzle Solution

If you have not moved any of the columns yet, you can rotate four columns as follows:

1. Rotate the bottom south-east column once.
2. Rotate the middle east column three times.
3. Rotate the center column two times.
4. Rotate the north middle column once.

For the second part of this puzzle, go here.

Champion Armor Set

Mantle of the Champion armor for Rogue, Mage and Warrior.

During the introduction of Dragon Age 2, Hawke is wearing the Mantle of the Champion armor set. This armor can be found later during Act 3.

Where to obtain all four pieces of the Champion armor set (spoilers):

1. Start of Act 3
   At the start of Act 3, you will get a cut-scene of Meredith and Orsino arguing. After dealing with them, the Champion gloves are automatically given to you.
2. Loot the High Dragon during Mine Massacre (Secondary Quest)
   If you have completed the Bone Pit quests in previous acts, Hubert in the Hightown Market will have a new quest, "Mine Massacre." To complete this quest, you will have to kill a high dragon at the Bone Pit. The Champion chestpiece is found on the high dragon's dead body.
3. Loot Huon during On the Loose (Main Plot Quest)
   At the Hawke Estate, there will be a letter from Meredith to start the "On the Loose" quest. During this quest, you will fight and kill the mage, Huon. On Huon's dead body, you will find the Champion boots.
4. Loot Grace during Best Served Cold (Main Plot Quest)
   After completing "On the Loose", a letter from Orsino will arrive at the Hawke Estate. This letter will start the "Best Served Cold" quest. Near the completion of this quest, you will fight the mage, Grace. You can loot her body for the Champion hood.

How to Not Start the Romance with Anders in Act 1

After helping Anders with his quest, Tranquility, you will have a conversation where it appears that you must initiate the romance if you want to avoid a rivalry gain with Anders. However, there are actually two ways to end this conversation without a rivalry gain and without an active romance.

The easiest way to avoid the romance without a rivalry gain is to simply select the first broken heart option available:

The downside to this option is that it will put an end to conversation right then without any increase in friendship or rivalry points. If you want to gain friendship, there is another way. Pick either the "I'm always ready to listen" option or the "It happens a lot" option:

On the following wheel, select the "You did the right thing":

This option will lead Anders into flirting with Hawke, and you will be able to respond with one of two heart options or one broken heart option. Picking the broken heart option will cut off the romance and end the conversation with a +10 rivalry gain. But, picking the very bottom heart option ("It's... unexpected") will not actually start the romance:

Even though the dialog may indicate that the romance does start, it does not. Perhaps it is a bug that causes the "It's... unexpected" option to not flag the romance, but it does provide a way to avoid the romance while still receiving 10 to 15 points of friendship.

Dev T-shirts Hint at Future DLC?

Several BioWare developers have been seen wearing T-shirts with uncompleted games of hangman printed on them. It's unknown what was the purpose of the T-shirts, but perhaps they hint at locations of future DLC, expansion or Dragon Age 3 content.

1. Dragon Age's lead writer, David Gaider was seen wearing a hangman T-shirt at the Comic-Con Writer Q&A. The letters as were seen on the T-shirt:

_ _ _ _ _ _ D
_ _ R _ _

The letters N, O, Y and P were crossed out as being wrong guesses. Exalted March fits.

Exalted March hangman T-shirt.

 2. The Dragon Age 2 lead designer, Mike Laidlaw, was seen at PAX with T-shirt that contained a ship logo and an uncompleted game of hangman. The letters on the T-shirt:

_ST_ _T_H

The letters, Q, N, R and I, were crossed out as being wrong letters. Estwatch fits into the spaces. Estwatch is an island that is located east off the coast of the Free Marches, and south of Llomerynn.

 Estwatch hangman T-shirt.

3. Jennifer Brandes Hepler had already said previously that, "Sebastian's story is not finished yet", but another developer was seen at PAX wearing a hangman T-shirt that further hints that there will be DLC or other future content that involves Starkhaven and Sebastian. Sebastian's belt buckler icon was on the T-shirt, and the letters on this shirt were:

_ T _ _ K H _ _ _ _

The letters, D, U, P and I were crossed out. Starkhaven fits in the spaces.

Starkhaven hangman T-shirt.

4. One last hint was on Mark Darrah's hangman T-Shirt seen at PAX. The T-Shirt had a Dalish elf tree icon on it, and the letters:

_ I _ D E _ _ _ E 

Wildervale fits the spaces. Wildervale is a location north of Vimmark Mountains and Kirkwall.

Talk Tables

The following links lead to various talk tables for Dragon Age that I have converted into txt files:

•  Dragon Age 2 Talk Table
•  Dragon Age 2: Legacy Talk Table
•  Dragon Age 2: The Exile Prince
•  Dragon Age: Origins: Awakening Talk Table

Legacy Torch Puzzle

In the Corphyeus Prision-Tower Base, there is a room with torches and a Sarcophagus. All six torches must be lighted to open the Sarcophagus.

The room contains the six torches (boxes) and the Sarcophagus (rectangle):

 

To solve the puzzle, click on the torches in the order as numbered in the image above:

1. Click on the middle left torch
2. Click on middle right torch
3. Click on bottom right torch
4. Click on bottom left torch
5. Click on middle left torch
6. Click on bottom right torch
7. Open Sarcophagus to receive the gloves for the “Regalia of Weisshaupt” set