Herd of Stone Halla

Herd of Stone Halla
Location	Winter Palace
Related	Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts
Appearances	Dragon Age: Inquisition

Herd of Stone Halla is a side quest in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

There's a veritable herd of halla statuettes scattered around the Winter Palace. They stand out a little too much to be simply decorative.

Acquisition

The quest becomes available when any halla statuette is found.

Walkthrough

Halla statuettes

Halla statuettes are used to open locked Halla doors in the Winter Palace and are consumed when used. They can be found by using the search function when in close proximity.

Each Halla door requires a certain number of Halla statuettes in order to be unlocked. Eleven statuettes can be found in the palace, but only ten are required for the quest. The available statuettes are not enough to open all of the Halla doors so decide early which endings and side quests you will pursue as this will dictate where you use them. One statue is required very early to open the Upper Garden Door to move the main quest forward.

The statuettes can be found in the following locations:

Palace Garden (starting area)

• On a bench on the patio up the stairs, above the Eastern Storage door.

Guest Wing Gardens

• At the top of the climbing lattice, turn right and right again to find a Halla on the railing most of the way down the balcony

Grand Apartments #1

• In the rafters of the kitchen. See notes below for more information.

  

  The halla up on the rafters.

Servant's Quarters Gardens #1

• In the gardens when you leave the kitchens. Take an immediate left and bear left to the southwest corner before you jump down and find the body.

Servant's Quarters Gardens #2

• In the gardens, proceed north from the dead emissary until a wall is reached. Turn right, go up the stairs, down the walkway and up the ladder. In the balcony room, there is a loot chest and a halla.

Grand Apartments #2

• Along the east wall of the room with the Venatori where you meet Ambassador Briala, near the balcony where her cutscene occurs.

Trophy Room

• On Gaspard's desk.

The balcony window to jump through to enter the sealed off room.

Royal Quarters #1

• In a bedroom on an end table in front of a roaring fireplace (turn right after you enter, first room on the right).

Royal Quarters #2

• Sitting on top of a lion chest in the room where you rescue Briala's agent from the Harlequin.

Jardin de Reverie #1

• Go through the door to your right, ignoring the rift sound, and jump in through the open window that is to the right. Statuette is in the southwest corner of this room.

Jardin de Reverie #2

• Go down the stairs next to the door leading to statue #10, and search for the statue by the bookcase next to the stairs.

Halla doors

A Halla door.

Halla doors are found in the following locations.

Palace Garden

• Eastern storage room (starting area)
  • Requires: One halla statuette
  • Accesses: Two common loot boxes.

Lower Garden Door

• Guest Wing Gardens
  • Requires: Three halla statuettes
  • Accesses: the Fumeur including one Caprice coin, a Red Jenny stash, three members of the council (Duke Cyril Montfort, Comte Lothaire Doucy and Comtesse Montbelliard) and two loot boxes including one with the Orlesian Banner. Varric is also found here if he accompanies the Inquisitor to the palace.
  • Necessary to complete: Red Jenny's Stashes, Banners, and Throwing Away Money

Note: Volume III of Codex entry: A Compendium of Orlesian Theater is also found here. The remaining members of the Council of Heralds can be spoken to and unlock Codex entry: Council of Heralds. If Varric was brought for the quest, they will be talking to him about his books so the Inquisitor needs to wait for a pause in conversation to interact with them.

Note: The route from the Lower Garden Door is off-limits (thus the Inquisitor slowly loses Court Approval) but the party area and the Fumeur beyond it is not.

Upper Garden Door

• Guest Wing Gardens
  • Requires: One halla statuette
  • Accesses: letter from Gaspard to Celene regarding negotiations and one common loot box
  • Necessary to complete: Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts main quest advancement

Celene's Vault

• Servants' Quarters and Grand Apartments (upper level)
  • Requires: Three halla statuettes
  • Accesses: Celene's elven locket and two rare loot boxes
  • Necessary to: reconcile Celene and Briala

Empress's Private Quarters

• Royal Quarters
  • Requires: Five halla statuettes
  • Accesses: One secret document, one caprice coin, one naked soldier bound to the Empress's bed and two common loot boxes
  • Necessary for: Throwing Away Money and The Great Blackmail Hunt and to achieve the public truce ending of the main quest

Note: Companion approval can be gained as follows:

• I need you to testify. (Free him to obtain blackmail on Celene) - Cassandra Slightly Approves
• You can stay here. (Leave him.) - Dorian Slightly Approves, Sera Slightly Approves

Note: The coin cannot be accessed until the soldier has been freed. Releasing him awards Court Approval 10.

Lower Royal Wing (Left door)

• Royal Quarters
  • Requires: Five halla statuettes
  • Accesses: One loot box with the chance of a rare item and a Lightning Rune

Lower Royal Wing (Right door)

• Royal Quarters
  • Requires: Five halla statuettes
  • Accesses: One loot box with the chance of a rare item and an Enhanced Cooldown Amulet

Rewards

Opening the Eastern Storage Room and Lower Garden Door each yield:

• 242 XP
• 80 Influence (no other doors yield any rewards)

Finding ten halla statuettes yields:

• 242 XP
• 80 Influence

Notes

• In order for the Inquisitor to have access to the most ending options for Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts, they must collect at least eight halla statuettes and enter both the Empress's Private Quarters in the Royal Quarters and the Servants' Quarters and Grand Apartments (upper level) where the elven locket is located.
• In order to reconcile Celene and Briala and complete Red Jenny's Stashes the Inquisitor must spend seven halla statuettes. In order to complete the main quest one statuette must be spent on the Upper Garden Door then three on the vault and three on the Lower Garden Door. This prevents Throwing Away Money and The Great Blackmail Hunt from being completed which would require a further five statuettes (or twelve in total).
• In order to reconcile Celene and Briala and complete The Great Blackmail Hunt the Inquisitor must spend nine halla statuettes. In order to complete the main quest one statuette must be spent on the Upper Garden Door then three on the vault and five on the Empress's private quarters. This prevents Throwing Away Money and Red Jenny's Stashes from being completed which would require a further three statuettes (or twelve in total).
• If the Inquistor is not interested in the elven locket and is interested in completing all of the side quests, then of the eleven halla:
  • one is used for the Upper Garden door
  • three for the Lower Garden door, and
  • five for Empress's Private Quarters door.

This leaves only two halla left and there is only one door which requires two or fewer halla, the Palace Garden door. Since the Inquisitor cannot get back to that door after entering the main gate, choose this door from the beginning to optimize the rewards from this strategy.

• If the Inquisitor is not interested in either the locket or the side quests, one or both of the lower wing doors become available.
• The fastest way to get the Halla statuette and codex entry in the kitchen of the Servants' Quarters is to jump on the edge of the table and onto the candle holder on one of the poles on either side of the table. Another option is you can jump from the table and pause in mid-air your assigned pause button and right-click the item to pick it up, though this does not work if the controlled character is a dwarf. Another way to get them is to jump onto the barrels in the northeast corner and then onto the nearby beam and walk slowly along the rafters, but this will take longer. Jumping on the large red barrel and then jumping towards the statuette while mashing the action button can work as well.