The Hinterlands Ambient Dialogue
Oculara and Shards Banter
The Hinterlands Masterpost
Related Location: Forbidden Oasis
The first time the PC approaches an ocularum:
Cole: A skull, but different, singing, swinging, sighting. He couldnât scream when he died. He felt nothing, and then too much.
Dorian: A skull on a stick. What charming customs you have here.
Cassandra: Who placed a skull out here, and for what purpose?
Varric: Whatâs with the skull?
Sera: What is that? Who dresses up skulls?
Using an ocularum the first time:
Solas: The skull illuminates certain objects in the distance. I am not familiar with such magic.
Dorian: The skull makes things light up when you look through it? Iâve never seen anything like this.
Vivienne: The skull describes a glow around certain objects in the distance. I have not seen anything like it.
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Sera: I donât want to touch anything a skull lit up! Skulls donât say âhereâs a good thing.â
Iron Bull: Not lovinâ the use of the skull, in case anyone asked.
Varric: Of course, it had to be a skull that lights up creepy shit.
Blackwall: A magical scrying skull. So wrong in so many ways.
Cassandra: Why would someone use a skull as a magical looking glass?
Cole: It is one of many, alone, lost in dirt too wet for where it was made. It wants to go back to the door.
Sera: Thatâs what the skull lit up? What is it?
Dorian: So this is what the skull illuminated? I sense something faint in it, but⌠no idea what.
Solas: Interesting. I cannot say what it is, but there must be a reason the skull illuminated the object.
Varric: Thatâs what the skull helped you find. Right. Not ominous at all.
Vivienne: Someone went through a great deal of trouble to find that, whatever it is.
Finding the third shard (before unlocking Forbidden Oasis):
Solas: Perhaps the Inquisition could determine the nature of these objects.
Varric: you think the Inquisition could maybe find out what these things are?
Cassandra: Perhaps the Inquisition could determine the nature of these objects.
Iron Bull: Any chance the Inquisition could find out what these things are?
Blackwall: I think the Inquisition should learn about these things before we fiddle with any more of them.
Finding a shard after unlocking Forbidden Oasis:
Sera: One of those key things.
Varric: Another one of those keys.
Dorian: Another key to that mysterious old temple.
Vivienne: Another key to that ancient temple in the desert.
The PC kills some Venatori near an ocularum:
Dorian: The Venatori are creating these oculara to help search for something.
Solas: The Venatori have made the oculara and are using them to search for something.
Vivienne: The Venatori created the oculara to search for something.
PC: The Venatori made the oculara, and theyâre using them to search for something.
Vivienne: What could be worth so much effort?
Dorian: Wonder why they went to such trouble.
Shards found, Forbidden Oasis not unlocked:
Vivienne: Something like those strange shards.
Solas: Something like those odd shards, presumably.
Dorian: Most likely those strange shards we found.
Unlocked Forbidden Oasis:
Vivienne: The keys to that ruin in the desert, most likely.
Solas: Presumably the keys to that ancient ruin in the desert.
Dorian: Most likely the keys to that old ruin in the desert.
After finding more shards:
Sera: More stupid keys for the stupid lock I could have picked if it wasnât stupid magic.
Varric: Who designs a place that takes this many keys to get inside?
Cole: The temple has a lot of keys. They all sing, but never the same song.
Dorian: Honestly, how many keys does one ancient temple really need?
Iron Bull: How many keys does this stupid temple need, anyway?
Blackwall: This desert temple seems to require a great many keys.
After finding enough shards to open the Temple of Solasan:
Sera: Thatâs it, right? All we need to open the temple? Time to get whatâs in there.
Varric: If anyone wants a treasure hunt, we have enough keys now to open that temple door.
Iron Bull: Thatâs it, right? Thatâs all the keys we needed to get the door of that weird temple open?
Cassandra: I believe we have enough keys to open the temple door.
Blackwall: That must be enough keys to open the temple door.
Cole: It will open now. They can all sing together.
After finding the truth about the oculara in Redcliffe:
Cole: Theyâre Tranquil skulls.. They couldnât fight back when it happened. They couldnât ask for help. I would have heard. I would have helped. I would have stopped it.
Cassandra: Every ocularum is made from the skull of a Tranquil?
Solas: So each ocularum is made from the skull of a Tranquil.
Varric: Those were Tranquil skulls?
Dorian: Every ocularum is made from the skull of a Tranquil?
Vivienne: Every ocularum is made from the skull of a Tranquil?
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Iron Bull: Not like the Tranquil were doing much with âem.
Blackwall: I had wondered what became of those poor souls when the Circles collapsed. Now we know.
Sera: Every skull was� No, done thinking about it. Done.
Vivienne: I had hoped they were safe with the rebel mages. I see that I was mistaken.
Varric: I figured theyâd fled with the rebel mages. Poor bastards.
Solas: I had wondered what had become of them when the mages rebelled. What a tragic waste.
Cassandra: I had wondered where they had gone. I should have looked harder.
Cole: Iâm sorry. Iâll find who did this. I will stop them.