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Sorry, what I've posted may sound misleading. You only need one and that is if you opt to give it away to the kid in the Dalish camp (forgot his name). Otherwise sell them.

 

What do you get in return besides experience points?

 

That's just to complete the quest, you can use persuade instead.

 

The book reward can be used for trading the Mad Hermit with. I usually trade it + Deygan's Boots for the hermit's elven helm (+25 spirit resist) and book (codex entry). I kind of like Varathorn's Amulet and the Dusk Ring so I'm not giving up those, and depending on my main character I usually don't trade away Danyla's Scarf. You can't get the Halla amulet if you don't have someone with Survival. Finally I prefer getting the book behind Lanaya only when Zathrian is gone (its the lyrics to the game's theme song, btw).

 

Your main character needs ranks in survival to complete this quest.

 

Now that my busy season is over I'm back to playing

I have a question about finishing moves. I'm playing a warrior and I noticed when I killed Flemeth and when I killed an Ogre in a random map encounter that my character went beserk with the finishing move. With Flemeth he jumped on her neck and basically tried to decapitate her. With the Ogre he also did some sort of crazy finishing move. Are these pre-planned in the game to go with the warrior or did I happen to do something to trigger them. They were really cool (I say in a bloodthirsty way).

 

It happens with melee weapons, the effect where you decapitate an enemy for instance is just an example (the finishing moves differ depending on the weapon style).

The Ogre finishing move happens with criticals and bosses (for instance Dragons or the Ogre in the Tower of Ishal always end up that way).

Mages (and Archers) don't get this added coolness (except for Arcane Warriors obviously).

Weapons that have a Messy Kill effect get more of these (there is also a mod to make them happen more frequently) but there is a major downside to this, while your character execute this move he or she can't do any other action (like gulping down a poultice) but still takes damage from enemies. I actually had a character die right after finishing an ogre... Embarrassing (as Yoshi used to say).

 

Or a high enough persuade; I completed this quest with my rogue and I didn't have a single point in survival.

 

The Halla quest goes differently with Persuade then it does with Survival. You need Survival to get it done the honest way (no amulet reward).
Persuade nets you the amulet.

 

Not true; if you have 2 or more ranks in Survival you also get the amulet.

 

Are we talking about the same thing?

Elora's halla? Halla Horn amulet.

The Halla needs to die for you to get the horns to make the amulet.

With Survival, you can calm the creature, Elora examines it and it's not sick, therefore no horns and no amulet for the Warden. That's the honest way of doing it.

Done this twice already. No amulet.

If you lie and say the halla is sick and pass persuasion, then the halla gets killed and you get the antlers -> amulet.

 

Don't you get a different award if you save the Halla? I thought you got something regardless if the Halla dies or if it life is spared.

 

No, Lore is right, you only get some XP and Elora's approval if you do it the "right" way.

You have to bring the antlers to Varathorn to get the Halla Horn (+10 Mental Resistance).

 

I'm in Orzammar and I just won the proving grounds, and then I went back for more for some "extra fights". Now I just noticed that my party is injured. Is there a way to cure injuries other then a kit or going to camp? You would think there would be a cleric somewhere or that at the very least Wynne could take care of it. I hate seeing my party walking around with concussions, torn jugulars, etc. Is it possible to leave and go to camp and come back (although that seems like a waste of time)?

 

Actually Wynne can take care of it, if you've levelled her as a spirit healer that is and taken This spell. Other than that, only going to camp or taking some injury kits will fix your injuries.

I can't see why you shouldn't be able to go to camp and come back?

 

When you are allowed to go to the Deep Roads you can leave for the camp from the guarded exit in Orzammar without going through the Hall of Heroes (although I'd suggest going this way at least once with Oghren in the party to trigger his surface dialogue).

 

I love his surface dialogue... it isn't much but it's kinda cute.

 

I'm almost ashamed to ask this question, as I've been playing this game for months now (although I still haven't finished it yet). Is there a way to drop stuff from your inventory? Whenever I'm full I always end up destroying things to make room, and that just seems wrong for some reason.

 

Not to my knowledge no. Have you considered using a mod like Bag of Holding, or using the toolset to increase your inventory capacity?