

Some are in the game, but are only found on NPCs who don't have them in their inventory (for stealing/looting). Please fix this.Īll of these items have complete inventory data, despite the fact that you can't actually see most of them in game. There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough pictures.

Nothing else can be done after obtaining the rod, as there is no Shale to activate. After reading the note, a conversation with the tavern owner, Lloyd, can be accessed, completing which will activate a previously-inactive barrel, which contains a special Golem Control Rod named “Lloyd's Control Rod”. Reading this letter spawns a letter called “Note of Sale” in the abandoned general store, which states that there is a Golem Control Rod in the tavern. The cottage can only be accessed on the PC version via console commands, and when entered it contains a note named “Circle Note”, an early version of the “A Decades-Old Letter” note used to help recruit Shale in the final version. The actual process to recruit Shale is not known, but it involved a cottage named “Wilhelm's Cottage” (which is actually the cottage to the right when the player enters the village from the world map), a note in the cottage, a note in the abandoned general store, and a Golem Control Rod in the tavern. The quest was supposed to take place in Redcliffe village. Originally, Shale was supposed to be recruitable without any DLC. A status for being tainted (having darkspawn blood on you) exists, but there seems to be no way to reactivate it and there are no healing items associated with it.
