Talk:Mad Hermit

Speculation removed from article

He is, possibly, a Tevinter Blood Mage, and in fact, his real name might even be "Jubinto" -during the side-quest, "Thy Brother's Killer," someone who wishes to employ the Warden's services as an assassin of maleficarum, informs the the Warden that such a band is practicing their rituals "...within close proximity to my own sanctum!"

The location of both the malificarum and the Mad Hermit are within the same sub-section of the Brecilian Forest, and the two parties are indeed very close to one another.

Re: The Quest

I had the quest before talking to him by seeing the Great Oak first. Perhaps you should try that instead?

@ whoever above ^^^ The point is that the article says he is involved in triggering the Mage's Treasure quest. Clearly he isn't. The entire "Involvement" section is wrong. You don't return mage's treasure to the grand oak. The only thing the oak takes is the acorn. I'm going to remove that part of the article. Ashes2flames

The Mage's Treasure

The mage's treasure quest is just for the juggernaut armour set, it is completely unrelated to the hermit. Also, from my limited experiece with the hermit, he will only trade the three items he has (acorn, ancient elven helm, and book on archons) for unique items found in the forest; i was able to trade him the ring 'Dusk' and the scarf from Danyla. There may be other items but I haven't checked yet.

You were able to trade him the Dusk ring? great! You mean the one in the shade's capsite trap right? That fantatinc new if you are correct! I've never been able to beat him in a fight and I've blown all the other options. Going to check that as soon as possible

Tradeable items

You can also trade the book given to you from one of the mini-quests in the elven camp. Help the apprentice hunter get the girl and he'll give you a book you can trade.

Is it absolutely confirmed the black pearl can be traded? I've never come across this option before. --Zoev 04:53, January 28, 2010 (UTC)

It's not possible on the PS3 version, at least. I have the Black Pearl and there is no option to trade it. I can only offer him Cammen's book, the Dusk ring, or Athras's Pendant. Alfaerin 05:26, January 31, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Alfaerin!. I'll give it a bit longer to see if anyone says anything different about the PC or the XBox, then remove this info if it still appears to be incorrect. ♦ Zoev ^talk 10:31, January 31, 2010 (UTC)

In the absence of any confirmation that the Black Pearl is tradeable, I have removed this from the list of tradeable items. I have also updated the Black Pearl article. If anyone can confirm the pearl is tradeable on either XBox or PC, then it can be added back in, but please do put a note here explaining so we know it's not just the same old unconfirmed rumour being put back in. ♦ Zoev ^talk 11:34, February 5, 2010 (UTC)

Ressurect

Is there any way to ressurect him after killing?With any cheat?I need to ressurect him because i need his book for codex.

Tower?

Zathrian mentions about mysteriously disappeared tower which he built in the forest long ago. Anyone have any idea?

Loot

I don't think its necessary to list generic loot that the Mad Hermit can drop. Generic loot's generated from a list of possible outcomes. We can address that later. Listing it here would start a trend where we'd have to list the generic drops for all the other creatures and it doesn't make much sense to do that. -- tierrie talk contr 07:30, February 10, 2010 (UTC)

Werewolf pelt

In the Werewolf Pelt article, it says that the werewolf pelts have a function with te Mad Hermit. Is this true? If so, what are they used for?

• if you kill the Great Oak, you need to pass the barrier to the ruins by giving him a werewolf pelt. He will make it so using it allows you to pass the barrier. Vavasor 03:21, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

His Background

According to his .chr file in the toolset, "the hermit's story is a tragic one -- long ago he lost everyone he loved, and it is loneliness and terror that has made him the way he is now." Gravenimage (talk) 14:18, June 1, 2010 (UTC)Gravenimage

Strategy

I traded him for the helmet and the acorn. I went through the barrier, then came back to the hermit and was able to pull the golden ring from the stump without it leading to a fight. He just jumped up and down saying "You've done it now, you've done it now."84.191.210.108 (talk) 20:23, June 6, 2010 (UTC)

I had a similar experience, except I only traded for the acorn, and when I came back to get more stuff from him after killing the elves, all conversation was disabled, and he only said "You've done it now, you've surely done it now" whenever I tried to talk, or when I stole the ring. This should definitely be put into the page, because it means that all trading has to be done before you finish the Brecilian Forest, and Dreamsever is unobtainable once you finish the main quest. I'm playing the Xbox 360 version, for the record.

Stealing Dreamsever from the hermit

Why is it that I always have to kill friendly NPCs just to get their cool stuff? My character is a mage, so I was obviously dying to get the Robes of Avernus and the Dreamsever ring, but here you go, you have to kill the owners, one way or another. But I like the mad hermit, why kill him? So I messed around with the toolset, and there you go, Leli stole Dreamsever from the hermit, hehe, I got the ring and the hermit got his life and everyone's happy. Pfft, some fight that would have been, by the way, just cast Mana Clash and the hermit and both demons are dead, pointless. WRFan (talk) 12:28, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

Mage teleporting issue

The article says the mage teleports. But there is a codex wich says that it's impossible to teleport or to mess with the space through magic.

Let's say he doesn't teleport. Instead, he just passes through a small gap inside the tree. Still, he is playing with the space making himself smaller/bigger.

So we have a little script failure here.

May be he can do that because he really is from "Knights of the Square Table". Nee!

He doesn't teleport he uses illusions... He isn't really there he is somewhere nearby controlling the illusion you see... Wynne makes a note of this if she is with you. --LycaNinja (talk) 13:59, August 20, 2010 (UTC)

So does Morrigan

Name

Isn't his name "Hermit" instead of Mad Hermit? -- tierrie talk contr 23:14, November 6, 2010 (UTC)