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Ruined Temple
Dragon Age: Origins

Ruined Temple

A comprehensive walkthrough for the Ruined Temple in Dragon Age: Origins, detailing item locations, quest triggers, and enemy encounters to help you navigate this challenging area.

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A comprehensive walkthrough for the Ruined Temple in Dragon Age: Origins, detailing item locations, quest triggers, and enemy encounters to help you navigate this challenging area.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    After Genitivi opens the door, head up and through the passageway to the left.
  2. 2
    Loot the Adventurer for Codex 319: Unbound.
  3. 3
    Enter the room, kill the Cultist, and examine the cabinet for a Taper and the bookshelf for a rare gift.
  4. 4
    Head to the far eastern room to find a scroll pile that starts the quest “Forgotten Verses“.
  5. 5
    The book is Codex 132: The Old Gods, the Ancient Texts adds another Scroll of Banastor(3), and there is a locked chest around the bookshelves.
  6. 6
    Return to the main area and head up the stairs, fighting off the attacking Cultist Archers and Reavers.
  7. 7
    Head through the left door at the top.
  8. 8
    Continue down the hall and disarm the Tripwire before engaging the Cultists.
  9. 9
    The first room yields two wooden crates and Ancient Texts for Scroll of Banastor(4).
  10. 10
    Down and to the left are more Cultists and a book for Codex 221: The Sermons of Divine Renata I and some dusty scrolls that have a rare gift.
  11. 11
    Beyond the door is an ornate chest holding the Black Pearl and the South-East Chamber Key.
  12. 12
    In the southern quarters you will find another locked chest, loot it and return to the main hall.
  13. 13
    Enter the eastern door and loot the Fallen Knight for Armor of Diligence.
  14. 14
    Return to the south-eastern area where you can now open the door and find three chests, one of which contains the Main Hall Key.
  15. 15
    Open the middle door at the top of the stairs and prepare for an ambush.
  16. 16
    Defeat the attackers and light the brazier to open the next door.
  17. 17
    In the next room, you can be sandwiched, but you can shut the doors and take out one side at a time.
  18. 18
    Loot the iron chest and head down the east path first.
  19. 19
    Continue down this path defeating the Cultists until you reach the corner room with a vase.
  20. 20
    At the top of the stairs are three more Cultists with a tripwire placed before them.
  21. 21
    Turn around and head to the middle area again this time going the opposite way.
  22. 22
    Fight your way to a room where four chests reside; the one that is locked is the only safe one to open as the others spawn Ash Wraiths.
  23. 23
    Continue until you reach the Wyrmling Lair.
Tips
  • The Bronto encountered is large but easily stunned.
  • Be aware of traps, especially tripwires, and disarm them.
  • When facing the ambush in the middle door at the top of the stairs, you can shut the doors to manage the fight.
  • In the room with four chests, only the locked chest is safe to open.
  • Codex 319: Unbound
  • Taper
  • Rare gift (from bookshelf)
  • Codex 132: The Old Gods
  • Scroll of Banastor x3
  • Rare gift (from dusty scrolls)
  • Black Pearl
  • South-East Chamber Key
  • Rare gift (from southern quarters locked chest)
  • Armor of Diligence
  • Main Hall Key
  • Scroll of Banastor x4
  • Codex 221: The Sermons of Divine Renata I

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