What a crap, almost a perfect game, but this part(the bridge) almost makes me want to delete it. Hope they don't repeat such crap in next part.
Bridge section.
I changed the steps in the bridge section to reflect the screen shots I took. The person who originally wrote it did the puzzle while looking from the entrance towards the exit and I took the screen shots from the exit looking towards the entrance. with this perspective right and left are reversed. I changed the steps to reflect this for consistency within the article and somebody changed it back without explanation, Please don't do this it's really annyoing. I'm reverting it back unless somebody explains why it shouldn't be that way.
Is it possible that the mechanics of the bridge puzzle are different in the PC than in the console version? I played it for the first time on the 360, and the blocks, once solidified, would stay solid regardless of whether or not the characters moved off the corresponding tiles. That is to say, it was unnecessary to have the Warden slowly slowly make their way across the bridge; I could just turn all the blocks solid and go across in one move. This really confused me when I later did the puzzle on the PC, because it wasn't working the way I remembered. Unless I remembered completely wrong. - Ancestralmask 22:40, December 11, 2009 (UTC)
- I have added a PC/Console difference in here because this is exactly the way it works for me on the XBox 360. I have never had to inch the Warden across while moving other players around on the tiles. I can get the whole bridge solid and then just run the Warden across, though the companions won't start following me until I've reached the other side. --MiyuEmi 22:56, December 11, 2009 (UTC)
- Cool, and handy to know, only you don't have to put I's in it so it doesn't sound like a personal story but like a fact. And it is a fact until proven otherwise ;)--Mytharox 23:19, December 11, 2009 (UTC)
It seems that the first step is not needed since the second step has the first 2 tiles solid. I couldn't go back to check though because I had not saved recently. --124.171.172.20 16:06, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
- It isn't needed, that was confirmed a while ago, only the screenshots don't make sense if you just remove the first one ;)--Mytharox 16:13, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
- Fair enough.--124.171.172.20 02:07, December 21, 2009 (UTC)
Answering the Riddles
It says here that answering the Riddles right doesn't give experience. Answering the Riddles right seems to give exp for me, but someone should verify this. I'm playing the PC version so it might be different for all I know.
Anwsering the riddles gives also XP for me on the PC version. There is no popup saying +xx XP, but when I check the experience bar, I see that I got the points.
Indiana Jones Connection?
I'm sure others have noticed this already -- this quest is obviously modeled on the the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." There are quite a few parallels: both are trying to get to a holy relic that contains the earthly remains of the founder of a religion (urn with Andraste's ashes, holy grail with Jesus' blood), both must confront an elderly guardian of the relic who is the last of his kind, both must answer riddles and find a bridge to travel across a chasm... When I realized it I was very excited and found it a lot fo fun.
3rd bridge section shows but is not solid.
On the PC version I followed the screen shot's *exactly* as shown and the third section of the bridge does not turn solid.
In the screen shots, the party member that is supposed to move to the deisgnated "plate," well, I tried every available plate and no solid third bridge section.
Is it because of my party team? I'm using Wynne, Sten, and Leliana.
Defiling the Ashes
Please note that you will need several health poultices (If Wynn leaves your party), and at least two different strengths of it, you may take more damage than you can heal of you are relying on one cooldown. Wynn was the only healer in my group, and while Dog easily takes her down with OverWhelm (?), you are still short a healer, for an Orange enemy (Guardian), and two yellows (Ash Shade). Also, Dog's Dread Howl does not stun any of these enemies, neither do standard stunning techniques. Venari (talk) 07:33, July 13, 2010 (UTC)Venari