Talk:Forbidden Knowledge

Merill approves?

Hey, there's no approval system in DA2, only friendship/rivalry!--Lesk Amell (talk) 18:34, March 11, 2011 (UTC)

Fail info

This didn't work for me as it is explained in this wikia. I didn't kill Idunna and got the letter to initiate the quest. I destroyed all of the tomes aside from the last and my journey just stays at "destroy all the tomes" I even went down to darktown and found no entrance near either of the exit points in darktown.

After rerunning the quest I can confirm that you can't advance at all past the 5 tomes if you read even the last book. The info on the wikia page says this, but then contradicts itself right after saying that you can cheat the quest by reading the very last book [which is whichever book you happen to find last]

• Wrong, read it over again. The page tells you to read the Fell Grimoire, which is the 6th tome you gain access to after destroying the first 5 tomes (all 5 named Evil Tome). What you did was read the last of the 5, which is not what the page details at the time of writing. 130.225.93.51 (talk) 08:29, March 22, 2011 (UTC)

Merill's rivalry

She takes a -10 rivalry for every single book destroyed. It's not recommended to have her in your party during this quest at all if you want to be friendly with her. --Dairydian (talk) 19:45, March 20, 2011 (UTC)

Doing the Quest after killing Idunna

You can complete the quest even if you kill Idunna, not just start it. I obviously cannot give exact information as I just did it once, but here is what I did: I read the tome in the recently opened passage, I got the option to destroy it and took that. I received the quest and was able to access all other tomes and destroy them as well, at which point I received the Darktown part of the quest (all in act 2). I was unable to access the wounded coast cave until I read the first tome and I was unable to find any of the other tomes, although it is possible that I simply missed them as they are quite small. So, the only certain information I can provide is that it is definitely *possible* to complete the quest even after killing Idunna, and that is the part I changed in the article, someone else will have to do the complete research and then rewrite the article so it's actually useful. Note: The western exit in the recently opened passage is actually the entrance and there is no book there, the author of that part probably mixed up east and west, I corrected that to "north-eastern".

Anonymus (on PC): Ok here is my Story. I killed Idunna and startet the quest by finding (and destroying) the first book (the one in the church, what I believe doesn't matter). Then I hunted down the other books and DESTROYED them ALL. I went into the cave with Xebenkeck and in the last room I READ the book and accepted demons's DEAL.
Here are my result:
1. The quest was finished normaly.
2. Directly before finishing the quest I had 0 (zero) attribute points and 2/8 special/skillpoints. Finishing the quest made me level up and afterwards I had 5 (five) attribute points and 2/9 special/skillpoints. If you get 3 attribute points and 1 skillpoint by leveling up, then I got additionaly 2 (two) attribute points, which obviously came by READING the last book. I also got the stave from killing Xebenkeck.
So what the main currently says about getting +2 attribute points, still being capable of finishing the quest, even if you killed Idunna, and getting the stave is true. Only for your information ;)

Merrill

Not sure if I'm bugged or not but destroying the books does nothing to Merrill's friendship/rivalry level. Her friendship was already maxed when I started this quest, if that matters.

Yes, that totally matters. One maxed, either direction, attitude will not change further. Please refer to Friendship and rivalry and the "General Settings" section. 142.179.122.202 (talk) 05:31, March 26, 2011 (UTC)

Forgotten Lair/Evil Pit

I needed to enter the "Evil Pit" in Darktown, to get to "The Forgotten Lair"

Is this platform specific?