Emprise du Lion

Emprise du Lion is an area in the Highlands of the Dales.^[1] It is a cold and craggy environment dotted with elven ruins.

Background Edit

The ancient and the modern co-exist in the highlands of Emprise du Lion, where relics of the lost elven nation are scattered among bustling human villages. These hills are home to the village of Sahrnia, known throughout Orlais for its quarry, which produces azure granite of remarkable quality.

—Excerpt from the quest journal

Emprise du Lion is a snow-covered area formerly occupied by elves. Several ancient elven ruins including a large keep and coliseums are located in the area. The hot springs in the Emprise have attracted dragons in recent years.

Involvement Edit

Characters Edit

• Baron Edouard Desjardins
• Imshael
• Michel de Chevin
• Mistress Poulin
• Merchant (Suledin Keep)

Enemies Edit

• August Ram
• Black wolf
• Bear
• Hurlock alpha
• Ghoul
• Great Bear
• Highland Ravager
• Hivernal
• Kaltenzahn
• Red Templars
  • Red Templar
  • Red Templar Marksman
  • Red Templar Guard
  • Red Templar Shadow
  • Red Templar Horror
  • Red Templar Knight
  • Behemoth
• Despair demon
• Pride demon
• Snoufleur
• Greater Terror
• Lesser Terror
• Fearling

Places Edit

Regions Edit

• Alphonse's Passage
• Drakon's Rise
• Drakon's Tower
• Elfsblood River
• Elfsblood Tower
• Elven Ruin
• Etienne's Ring
• Highgrove
• Judicael's Crossing
• Judicael's Ring
• Leontine's Ring
• Pools of Sun
• Sahrnia
  
• Sahrnia Quarry
• Suledin Keep
  
• Tower of Bone
• Valeska's Watch (Note: Even through there are 17 locations listed above, only 16 are required for the Emprise du Lion Collections quest and this location doesn't seem to trigger as part of the quest or even a separate location from Drakon's Rise.)

Inquisition Camps Edit

• Drakon's Rise Camp
• Highgrove Camp
• Sahrnia Camp
• Tower Camp

Quests Edit

A Timely Intervention
Breeding Grounds
Caged Confession
Call Me Imshael
Capturing Suledin Keep
Mama's Ring
Red Captors
Rocky Rescue
Rumors of the Sulevin Blade
Securing Safe Passage
Sifting Through Rubble
Stalker
Take Back the Lion
The Corruption of Sahrnia
They Shall Not Pass
Turning the Tables
Quarry Quandary
Valeska's Watch
Words not Hollow

Rifts Edit

Rifts at Drakon's Cleft
Rift at Elfsblood Tower
Rifts in the Springs
Rift on Frozen Water

Requisitions Edit

Bloodstone Survey in the Emprise
Brazier Requisition in the Emprise
Coat Requisition in the Emprise
Shelter Requisition in the Emprise

Collections Edit

Bottles on the Wall Edit

Legacy White Shear - Near the entrance of the locked tower in Sahrnia quarry
Abyssal Peach - Inside Suledin Keep past the cages and the first giant encounter, before the lyrium tents.

Dragon Hunter Edit

Hivernal
Kaltenzahn
Highland Ravager

Landmarks Edit

Landmarks in the Emprise

Shards Edit

Shards in the Emprise

Skyhold Customizations Edit

• Orlesian Throne - see the judgment of Mistress Poulin. Related quest: Rocky Rescue.

Resources Edit

Herbs Edit

Arbor BlessingArbor Blessing

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Tier 3 Common Herb

Black LotusBlack Lotus

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Tier 1 Rare Herb

ElfrootElfroot

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Tier 1 Common Herb

FelandarisFelandaris

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Tier 3 Rare Herb

RashvineRashvine

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Tier 2 Common Herb

Rashvine NettleRashvine Nettle

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Tier 2 Rare Herb

Metal Edit

BloodstoneBloodstone

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Metal

DawnstoneDawnstone

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Metal

SilveriteSilverite

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Metal

Notable items Edit

Elven artifacts Edit

• On a cliffside ledge, east of Drakon's Tower (east of Valeska's Watch)
• Hidden within an arch directly north (or to the right of) the ocularum in the 2nd dragon ring near the 'Leontine's Steward' region (it is hidden from view so, you must jump down from the last archway in the ring to the large rock-ledge below to access the artifact.)

Logging stands Edit

• Next to south-east of the Highgrove camp.
• The island at the center of the frozen lake, by an unmarked hunter campsite, and a tower with a locked door.

Red Jenny's Caches Edit

• Inside Sahrnia Quarry

Veilfire glyphs Edit

Frost Rune SchematicFrost Rune Schematic

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Rune Schematic
Adds cold damage to each weapon strike.
- Found in a cave in Sahrnia Quarry that starts south of the Suledin Keep map marker. The Veilfire torch is at the end of the cave, the glyph is about halfway through, almost directly west of the Suledin Keep map marker. Just past the loot box on a small ledge.

Loot Edit

Ardent BlossomArdent Blossom

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Unique Helmet
"So I said to the fellow, 'You want a what?' And it turns out I heard him right the first time. A helmet of flowers, he said, with a vein of lyrium running through it to keep them flowers alive. I thought for sure this had to be some elven thing, something for frolicking in the woods, but no. It's for a duel, he said. Bloody Orlesians. Dwarven pride demanded I make the damned thing effective, at least."
Requires: Level 19

Armor: 39-41
+24% Sunder When Hit, found down the endless staircase near Suledin Keep once The Tiniest Cave is completed
CalibanCaliban

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Unique Sword
First wielded by Caliban, the most famous non-Pentaghast dragon hunter (he claimed to have slain the last dragon in the early Steel Age, notorious for his commoner heritage and sexual appetite. After the death of his lover, Queen Fionne Theirin, he went into self-imposed exile and, some say, trained a secret warrior order in the Frostback Mountains called the Calibanites.
Requires: Level 20

Damage: 195-202
+14% Attack
+16% Heal on Kill
+5% extra damage for each enemy within 8 meters, drop from Kaltenzahn
Curse of MorracCurse of Morrac

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Rare Helmet
This mask is not actually cursed, though many believe that the people associated with it are. The house of Morrac, the traditional rulers of Val Firmin, went through a period in the late Exalted Age where almost every member of their large family met a tragic end. It reached the point where the Morracs were shunned out of fear, justified or not, their "curse" might be contagious. Lady Louise de Morrac, wife of Count Evram, who had passed away from poisoned grapes only days before, made a public show of destroying the Morrac mask and having a new one crafted - something almost unheard of. The deaths stopped, and despite Lady Louise's efforts, the previous masks became a much-sought-after rarity.
Requires: Level 14

Armor: 27-28
+6 Cunning
+6 Dexterity, found in Elfsblood Tower
Duke's ManeDuke's Mane

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Unique Helmet
Requires: Level 19

Armor: 45-46
+14% Heal Bonus
+8% Melee Defense
+8 Strength, drop from the Highland Ravager
KnightslayerKnightslayer

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Unique Dual-Blade Dagger
The most famous elven criminal in Orlais was Alidda of Halamshiral, arrested in 4:45 Black for slaying three chevaliers. The trial, presided over by Divine Clemence I, revealed that Alidda had slain twelve chevaliers, in retaliation for the "graduation" tradition that sent knights into the slums to attack elves out past curfew. Alidda escaped and killed twenty more chevaliers, two in single combat, before she was cornered and, to avoid capture, cut her throat with her own dagger.
Requires: Level 13

Damage: 74-76 AoE
+32 Damage vs. Living
+5% Armor Penetration
+9% Critical Damage Bonus
+5% Guard Damage Bonus looted from a corpse in Valeska's Watch
March of the EverlastingMarch of the Everlasting

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Unique Shield
This shield may have been forged in Arlathan, like the varterrals that guard ancient elven tombs. If so, it fell into the hands of Tevinter conquerors, who reshaped it with their own magic. During the Black Age's Exalted Marches, Orlesian Circle Mages re-enchanted it and gave it to the chevaliers.
Requires: Level 17

Armor: 29
+30 Front Defense
+27 Maximum Health
+8% Melee Defense
+4 Strength
+5% extra damage for each enemy within 8 meters, drop from Imshael
Rebuke of the SunderlandRebuke of the Sunderland

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Unique Greataxe
Forged both well and true, though as far as it has traveled, it has never truly left the will of its master. An axe that demands an accounting, the approval of some faraway smithy granted or rebuked with every swing.
Requires: Level 14

Damage: 196-206 AoE
+8% Bleed on Hit
+24% Critical Chance
+7.5% extra damage for each enemy within 8 meters, found in Elfsblood Tower
Staff of the VoidStaff of the Void

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Unique Staff
A weapon that stills the air around it. The inscription is old Tevinter Imperium: "There is strength in absence. Absence of weakness, and of limitation. Absence of caution, and of mercy. The Void has always been within."
Requires: Level 17

Damage: 65-66 Electricity
+6% Attack
+6% Critical Chance
+36 Magic
10% chance to grant 2 seconds of Walking Fortress, drop from Hivernal
Walking DeathWalking Death

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Unique Dagger
The well-worn hilt bears the marks of the Nevarran Mortalitasi. The order makes an art of mummification, and their tools are imbued with magicks that blur the moment between life and death, though death is no less certain.
Requires: Level 17

Damage: 124-128
+21% Armor Penetration
+4% Attack
10% chance to apply Walking Bomb for 5 seconds, with detonation of 50% weapon damage, drop from the Highland Ravager
WintersbreathWintersbreath

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Unique Shield
Egon Wintersbreath, one of history's greatest dwarven warriors, achieved Paragon status in his own lifetime, leading the defense of the Kingdom of Hormak during the First Blight until it fell in -35 Ancient. When word came that Orzammar would seal its passages from the other kingdoms, he dropped his hammer and left for the surface, grieving, "I would rather die under an alien sky than be buried in the Stone that betrayed us."
Requires: Level 15

Armor: 26
+3 Constitution
+30% Front Defense
+20 Guard Max
+6% Ranged Defense
Berserk: +10% damage bonus, +100% damage from all sources looted from a corpse in Valeska's Watch
Superb Cleansing Rune SchematicSuperb Cleansing Rune Schematic

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Rune Schematic
Inflicts bonus damage against red templars and darkspawn on each weapon strike.
, sold by the Suledin Keep Merchant for 7294

Codex entries Edit

Codex entry: Emprise du Lion
Codex entry: Exhuming Bodies by Moonlight
Codex entry: In Death
Codex entry: Judicael's Crossing
Codex entry: Suledin Keep Documents
Codex entry: Tower of Bone
Codex entry: Trading with Kal-Sharok
Codex entry: Valeska's Watch

Notes Edit

• There is a small cave between Highgrove and Drakon's Rise camps, west of the logging camp that has frozen bodies hanging from the ceiling, weapons scattered on the ground, a pyramid shaped box with a note that says "DON'T TOUCH MY PYRAMID" and a loot chest (See gallery picture below).

Bugs Edit

• xboxonepcps4 The glyph may be rendered inside of the cave wall and not visible, but can still be interacted with. ^{[confirmation needed]}
• pc Southwest of the Tower Camp there is an icon of a locked door next to a tower corresponding to the locked door underground at Valeska's Watch. This icon may not correctly disappear from the map after the door is opened.

Gallery Edit

References Edit

1. ↑ Emprise du Lion official reveal