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.
This section contains spoilers for: Dragon Age: Inquisition.
The Inquisition investigates Red Templar activity in Emprise du Lion. The Red Templars seize Suledin Keep as their headquarters and begin to use the nearby quarry as a site for the growth and harvest of Red lyrium to supply their forces. They have also made several raids on the nearby village of Sahrnia.
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.)
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.
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.)
Frost Rune SchematicFrost Rune SchematicRune 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.
Note: the illusory wall rock leading to the Ardent Blossom helm as part of The Tiniest Cave is located just west of the Veilfire torch.
Ardent BlossomArdent BlossomUnique 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 CalibanCalibanUnique 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 MorracRare 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 ManeUnique Helmet Requires: Level 19
Armor: 45-46 +14% Heal Bonus +8% Melee Defense +8 Strength, drop from the Highland Ravager KnightslayerKnightslayerUnique 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 EverlastingUnique 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, OrlesianCircleMages 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 SunderlandUnique 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 VoidUnique 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 DeathUnique Dagger The well-worn hilt bears the marks of the NevarranMortalitasi. 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 WintersbreathWintersbreathUnique Shield Egon Wintersbreath, one of history's greatest dwarvenwarriors, 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 SchematicRune Schematic Inflicts bonus damage against red templars and darkspawn on each weapon strike. , sold by the Suledin Keep Merchant for
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).
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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.