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Keymaster trophy in Dragon Age: Inquisition

Keymaster

Enter the heart of the Solasan temple.

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How to unlock the Keymaster trophy

  • CrucialVelocityCrucialVelocity
    04 Jan 2015 04 Jan 2015
    This trophy is probably the most work in the game as it requires you to collect every single shard (a total of 114), and then use them to unlock various doors in a temple in the Forbidden Oasis.

    The quest "Shard Collector" is triggered by finding your first shard in the game, which you can do as soon as you hit the Hinterlands - there's an ocularum near the start, use this to find and map the shards, then pick them up.

    This will give you access to a War Table mission in the far West which unlocks The Forbidden Oasis location. You can head here whenever you like but bear in mind the enemies are ~level 12, and you won't be able to collect all the shards until you've unlocked all the large maps in the game, so you may want to leave this map until the end (there's not really anything else of note here).

    Anyways, you can find the oculara and shards in each map as follows (the game will track your progress at each location once you've found your first shard on each map, via the 'Collections' tab in the journal):
    Hinterlands: 5 oculara, 22 shards
    Storm Coast: 4 oculara, 13 shards
    Forbidden Oasis: 4 oculara, 15 shards
    Western Approach: 4 oculara, 14 shards
    Exalted Plains: 3 oculara, 16 shards
    Emerald Graves: 2 oculara, 13 shards
    Emprise du Lion: 2 oculara, 13 shards
    Hissing Wastes: 4 oculara, 8 shards
    I found the maps here (not my work) to be very helpful: http://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/2nfgx7/spoilers_d...

    Once you've got all the shards, head to the northernmost camp in the Forbidden Oasis, access to the temple is via a path up to the left of the waterfall. You'll need shards to open each of the doors in here, 6 for the front door, and a total of 36 for each of the three paths (they have three doors each requiring 6, 12 and 18 shards respectively). Once you've completed each of the three paths, the main door will open (this is directly in front of the front door). Once you've entered this chamber, the trophy should drop.

    Note:
    1. At some locations (definitely Western Approach and Emprise du Lion and possibly others) you will need to complete War Table operations to unlock the entire map, i.e. you may not be able to access all the shards straight away.
    2. Once you've used an ocularum to mark every shard on your map, the ocularum itself will no longer appear on your map (this is a good way of figuring out where you may have missed some).
    3. The second ocularum at Emprise du Lion is right on the edge of the lair of a rather high level dragon. I killed it but depending on your level you may need to take a more stealthy approach.
    4. Some of these require some pretty annoying jumping to get to, and the ones in Forbidden Oasis can be annoying because of the vertical layout of the map.
    5. You can open doors and come back later and open the rest, although note that a few players reported glitches where they have lost shards from attempting to partially open a door and then couldn't complete the quest. I attempted to open a door that I didn't have enough shards for, came back later on, and had no problems though.
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