Long ago, a soldier from Gwaren was returning home after twenty years at war. On his way, he met an old blind woodcutter sitting on a tree stump, and he gave the old man his last scrap of bread. The old man gave the soldier his axe in return. The soldier made his bed in a tree branch and held the woodcutter's axe at his side to ward against beasts and bandits. When the moon was high, he was awakened by the sound of weeping. "Help me," spoke the tree in which he'd been sleeping, "If you had any pity in you, you would cut me down so that my spirit could go to the Maker." So the soldier took up his axe and struck the tree. The tree shattered when it hit the ground, and from the splinters rose a demon. The soldier was chilled to the bone, and could not sleep. In the morning, he found that the axe still burned like the blood of the sylvan.
—From Codex entry: AodhAcquisition
Aodh can be looted from the body of Cristof during a map encounter in Denerim, after completing the quest Pearls Before Swine and convincing the White Falcon Mercenaries to leave The Pearl peacefully.
Notes
- True to its description, Aodh is a simple axe: it looks exactly the same as an Ash Warrior Axe of the same tier.