Follow this detailed walkthrough for Dragon Age: Origins' Third Floor, including enemy encounters, loot locations, and quest updates for 'Watchguard of the Reaching' and 'Five Pages, Four Mages'.
Walkthrough
- 1Open the door near the stairs to enter the Great Hall.
- 2Check the ancient texts for a Scroll of Banastor(2).
- 3Loot the charred corpse, which will spawn enemies.
- 4Defeat the incoming Arcane Horror using a ranged character.
- 5Loot the charred corpse at the far end, a pile of books, and the Apprentice Note to update the quest “Watchguard of the Reaching”.
- 6Enter the next room and loot the charred corpse and chest.
- 7Open the door to the next room and immediately disarm the Leghold Trap.
- 8Allow the Abominations to come to you and defeat them. Looting them should update a codex.
- 9March further into the room to spawn and defeat more demons.
- 10Loot the soldier’s corpse in the middle of the room.
- 11Enter the first room on the right, disarm the trap inside the door.
- 12Kill the Possessed Templar and loot the closet for a torn page yielding Codex 324: Five Pages, Four Mages, and a pile of books.
- 13Enter the next room on the right to find a cabinet and another torn page.
- 14In the next room, defeat the Charmed Templars controlled by a Desire Demon.
- 15Loot the two more torn pages and the armoire in this room.
- 16In the final room, collect the last torn page and loot the chest. This should grant the quest “Five Pages, Four Mages“.
- 17Approach the door leading to the middle area; the game will auto-save.
- 18Enter and defeat the Abomination-led enemies.
- 19Loot everything, including the White Runestone from the Abomination.
- 20Leave this room and enter the large room with statues along the back wall.
- 21Examine the statues in the following order: left-most holding a bowl, right-most with a sword pointed upward, middle with a sword pointed downward, and then the statue in the middle room with the shield. This will update a quest.
- 22Head to the fourth floor.
Tips
- The Arcane Horror can inflict significant damage, so prioritize taking it out with a ranged character.
- Disarming traps, like the Leghold Trap, is crucial before engaging enemies.
- The last torn page found starts the quest “Five Pages, Four Mages“.
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