The Black Vials

The Black Vials
Location	Circle Tower Lower Ruins Werewolf Lair Orzammar Royal Palace Caridin's Cross Back Alley in Denerim (random encounter)
Start	Find a glass phylactery at any of the specified locations
End	Destroy all six Corpse Walkers
Appearances	Dragon Age: Origins

The Black Vials are six small glass phylacteries that can be found around Ferelden. The area around them is unnaturally cold. Dark shapes swirl around a slip of paper within each vial. When the Warden takes a vial, the glass fractures and releases a hostile revenant. Upon their death, each revenant drops a scrap of vellum that updates the Codex entry: The Black Vials.

Walkthrough

The vials may be taken in any order.

Locations

• Cale Viazagat, The First Corpse Walker:
  • Toppled Statue in the desecrated chapel in the Senior Mage Quarters. Can be collected during the Broken Circle quest or afterwards.

• Nethamas Bigal, The Second Corpse Walker:
  • Glass phylactery in a room in Orzammar Royal Palace (the eastern-most room/kitchen).

• Argruth Massaad, The Third Corpse Walker:
  • Glass phylactery near the centre of Caridin's Cross (see map to right).

Location of the third Corpse Walker: Expand thumbnail to see yellow dot marking location.

• Quametha Kagat, The Fourth Corpse Walker:
  • Glass phylactery in the far bottom room on the right side of Lower Ruins in Brecilian Forest. The glass phylactery is directly in front upon entrance. It resembles a pile of filth with two vases sticking out of it.

• Shamas Goodson, The Fifth Corpse Walker:
  • Glass phylactery in Werewolf Lair, the top left room in the middle of the map.

• Anton Wither, The Sixth Corpse Walker:
  • Glass phylactery in one of the Back Alley random encounters in Denerim. In this encounter you start on a stone platform up a set of steps and the glass phylactery is on the platform with you. It is the same encounter during which bandits trap one of your party members by dropping a portcullis that must be lifted using a lever. (This vial can only be found during this one and only random encounter, so be sure to pick it up!)

A Corpse Walker: revenant and perversion.

Rewards

XP and loot dropped by revenants:

Dead Coat of Arms

Emerald Ring

Notes

• There is no journal entry for this quest other than the codex entry.
• A black vial can also be found in the Mark of the Assassin expansion for Dragon Age 2 during Aveline's The Du Lac Sign companion quest.