COMPANION ARMOR UPGRADES
Although Hawke’s companions choose their own attire, a few improvements are available for their armor or
robes. When you find one of these upgrades, the companion applies it automatically. If you examine their armor
in the inventory afterwards, you see the upgrade listed in green.
RUNES
High-quality weapons and armor can be improved by inscribing one or more lyrium runes on the item using
an enchanting apparatus. Runes are rarely found, but they can be created through crafting. Once a rune has
been inscribed, its properties are added to the item and it cannot be removed intact; applying another rune atop
it destroys the first rune. The effectiveness of a rune varies based on the quality of the weapon or armor it is
inscribed on, so save your best runes for your best equipment.
CRAFTING
Skilled craftsmen are constantly looking for new varieties of the resources they use in their trades. If Hawke
discovers resources in the wild, along with a recipe for how to use those resources, craftsmen will happily
create usable items like potions, poisons, bombs, or runes in exchange for coin. After meeting a craftsman,
Hawke can also order items of that type from home.
The craftsmen manage collection of the resources once Hawke has found the initial supply, and, consequently,
the resources themselves are not lost when the craftsmen create items. But note that if Hawke doesn’t discover
a variety of a crafting resource, someone else is sure to find it. Undiscovered resources disappear as the years
roll by.
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