In the first part of this Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening walkthrough, we’ll be looking at the Vigil’s Keep area of the game, which is under attack from roving darkspawn at the beginning of the narrative. Read on for ways to defeat this threat and restore order to Vigil’s Keep.
With five new characters and one returning fan-favorite, there are plenty of new character dynamics to take into account when playing through Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening. This article tries to further color the characters you’ll encounter, helping to recognize what to say and do when around them.
Our home base at Vigil’s Keep has a number of possible side quests for us to do. We can do the “Bombs Away” quest with Dworkin, “A Master’s Work” and “Elemental Requirements” for Wade and Herren and help reinforce the walls for Voldrik in “What Is Built Endures.”
As the Arling of Vigil’s Keep and Amaranthine, you have a lot of work to do with the local nobles. You need to position your soldiers, deal with the Brewing Conspiracy and handle a riot. If you need any help with your governing duties, look here.
Vigil’s Keep has many side quests. In this Dragon Age Origins Awakening walkthrough, information and spoiler details are given to help you earn the gold sovereigns and experience (XP) you need to complete each quest.
We’ve made our decision and allowed Amaranthine to burn so that Vigil’s Keep can survive. We need to turn back the darkspawn with the help of our party. This means holding the front gate and the courtyard against waves of darkspawn, childers, and armored ogres in our last stand.
It’s time to face the Blight head on. There are darkspawn moving against Vigil’s Keep and Amaranthine. We need to make a decision. One of these is to stand our ground and protect Amaranthine. I’ll tell you how to save Amaranthine in the this last stand.
The Crown and Lion Inn has a special notice board for the “blight orphans.” Anyone with half a brain should be able to tell that they aren’t real blight orphans, but it has a funny quest line and it actually has a pretty happy ending. If you want to get some easy experience, look here.
There are a lot of side quests in the city of Amaranthine. Described In this Dragon Age Origins Awakening guide are the spoiler information and details you will need to complete them and earn the gold sovereigns and experience.
