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The Hissing Wastes is a large stretch of desert in western Orlais.

Background

The Hissing Wastes is a stretch of sandy desert north of the Western Approach, a lonely place where the wildlife is hungry and hostile. Among the hungriest and most hostile are the dragons that make their nests here. The rare person wandering into the wastes is either hunting prized beasts or hoping to uncover evidence of a long-vanished civilization in the dunes.
—Excerpt from the quest journal

According to Solas, the Hissing Wastes used to be a forest, before encroaching sands destroyed the trees' roots.

Accessible through War table > Orlais > Stop Venatori Activity in the West

Involvement

Dragon Age: Inquisition

This section contains spoilers for:
Dragon Age: Inquisition.

During the conflict between the Elder One and the re-established Inquisition, the Venatori establish a significant presence in the Hissing Wastes. The Inquisitor can access the Wastes by completing Stop Venatori Activity in the West operation at the war table in Skyhold.

It is then possible to explore the Hissing Wastes, gradually establishing Inquisition presence there and reducing that of the Venatori. The Inquisitor will discover the reason for Venatori presence in the desert and shed some light upon the civilization that existed there long ago.

Dragon Age: Magekiller

This section contains spoilers for:
Dragon Age: Magekiller.

Tessa Forsythia and Marius are sent to the Hissing Wastes to deal with Venatori excavating the ruins. Unable to deal with the problem, Tessa asks Charter to send additional support. This support comes in the form of Dorian Pavus and some of the Bull's Chargers led by Krem. Their main target is a camp of fifty Venatori. While Dorian and Marius provide a distraction, Tessa frees the captive slaves; once all the slaves are clear, Rocky, the Chargers' sapper, brings the cliff wall down on the camp, killing the remaining Venatori.

Places

Hissing-Wastes-Map — Map of the Hissing Wastes

Regions

Note: The 12 regions below make up the Regions in the Wastes collection. Discovering all of them grants 500 Influence.

Ancient Road
Burial Grounds
The Canyon
The Colossus
The Cove
Golden Oasis
The Rippling Dunes
Rock Top Ridge
The Sand Crags
The Shallow Basin
Sunstop Mountains
Tomb of Fairel

Inquisition camps

The Canyon Camp
The Cove Camp
Logging Camp
Mountain Fortress Camp
Sunstop Mountain Camp
Statue Camp
Sand Crags Camp

Quests

Field of Bones
Holding the Hissing Wastes
Let's Slay the Beast
Notes on the Wastes
Sand and Ruin
The Tomb of Fairel

Rifts

Rifts at the Sunstop Mountains
Rifts near the Canyon
Rifts near the Cove
Rifts near the Sand Crags

Requisitions

Artifact Requisition in the Wastes
Lazurite Survey in the Wastes
Nevarrite Survey in the Wastes
Relief Requisition in the Wastes
Shelter Requisition in the Wastes

Characters

Merchant (Hissing Wastes)

Creatures

Enemies

Dragonling
Gurn
Lurker
Spiders
Red Templars
- Behemoth
- Red Templar - (Warrior - Sword)
- Red Templar Guard - (Warrior - Weapon and Shield)
- Red Templar Horror
- Red Templar Knight
- Red Templar Marksman - (Rogue - Archer)
- Red Templar Shadow (Rogue - Double Daggers)
Varghest
Venatori
Wyvern

Resources

Mosaics

Sacrifice - 12/12 Pieces

Shards

Shards in the Wastes

Skyhold customizations

Dwarven Banner - In the tomb in The Canyon. (Can be also obtained in "The Vaults" in Valammar in the Hinterlands)
Dwarven Banner Crown - in a tomb in the Burial Grounds. (Can be also obtained in Daerwin's Mouth in the Storm Coast)
Tevinter Banner Crown - in a chest in a small camp beside a large rock, close to the Golden Oasis, north east of the Canyon Camp

Notable items

Elven artifacts

Northwest of Sunstop Mountain Camp, at the bottom of the ladders leading down from Rock Top Ridge
Inside the Tomb at Sunstop Mountains, at the utmost bottom of the scaffolding

Logging stand

Northwest of the Logging Camp.
North of Sand Crags Camp west of Mountain Fortress Camp near a blue tent.

Quarry

Halfway between the Sand Crags Camp and The Cove Camp, directly south of one of the Rifts near the Sand Crags, underneath two giant overlapping rocks. It is far east of the Logging Camp.
In the Shallow Basin just north of the Burial Grounds. Directly north of the map marker labeled "The Empty Square".

Veilfire glyphs

Fire Rune Schematic - Found in a tomb east of the Mountain Fortress Camp during the side quest The Tomb of Fairel

Loot

Superb Demon-Slaying Rune Schematic - looted from a chest in The Tomb of Fairel
Bloodwake - dropped by a Venatori Overseer during Sand and Ruin
Helm of the Drasca - for purchase from merchant
Perseverance - see item page
Promise of the Storm - looted from The Tomb of Fairel

Strange Orb

East of Statue Camp is set of boxes with an orb on top that can be taken but does not appear to do anything, nor does it appear in any quest.

Codex entries

Codex entry: A Worn Diary
Codex entry: Blood-Spotted Venatori Diary
Codex entry: The Colossus of Orlais
Codex entry: Demons of the Stone
Codex entry: Draft of Letter to Venatori Magisters
Codex entry: Dwarven Inscriptions: Hissing Wastes
Codex entry: The First Blight: Chapter 3
Codex entry: Folded Letter
Codex entry: The Hissing Wastes
Codex entry: A Journal on Dwarven Ruins
Codex entry: Map of Tomb of Fairel
Codex entry: Note From the Silent Quarter
Codex entry: A Sand-Covered Note
Codex entry: Sketch of Burial Grounds Tomb
Codex entry: Sketch of Canyon Tomb
Codex entry: Sketch of Colossus Tomb
Codex entry: Sketch of Four Pillar Tomb
Codex entry: Sketch of Sunstop Mountain Tomb

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 {{Blockquote|The Hissing Wastes is a stretch of sandy desert north of the Western Approach, a lonely place where the wildlife is hungry and hostile. Among the hungriest and most hostile are the [[dragons]] that make their nests here. The rare person wandering into the wastes is either hunting prized beasts or hoping to uncover evidence of a [[Kal Repartha|long-vanished civilization]] in the dunes.|Excerpt from the quest journal}}According to Solas, the Hissing Wastes used to be a forest, before encroaching sands destroyed the trees' roots.
-Accessible through War table > Orlais > "Stop Venatori Activity in the West"
+Accessible through War table > Orlais > [[Stop Venatori Activity in the West]]
 == Involvement ==