Dragon Age II: The Platinum Champion of Kirkwall

Trophy 1: A Tale Within a Tale

Official Description: Listened to Varric begin his tale of the Champion of Kirkwall.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1633

It’s pretty cool how the whole story is told by Varric the sarcastic dwarf, who is being interrogated by Cassandra, the Seeker of the Chantry. Varric offers up some Grade A embellished BS as a tutorial for your Hawke. Cassandra is none too pleased.

Trophy 2: Nefarious

Official Description: Allied yourself with the smugglers upon arriving in Kirkwall.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1634

After fleeing Ferelden with the help of Dragon Lady Flemeth (voiced by the cool Captain Janeway, I might add) Hawke and her crew ship off to Kirkwall. Hawke’s mom is originally from Kirkwall nobility so that seems like their best chance at a new life. Her only remaining relative, Uncle Gamlen, is a bit of a jerk and Hawke needs to work her way into the city of Kirkwall.

I chose the smuggler path since they seem to have have slightly less… uh, shadiness? Athenril (the smuggler boss lady) asked me to shake down a merchant for some coin he owed. I chose to unleash the power of Aveline on his ass. She really seemed to like that since it raised her approval by 10.

Trophy 3: Immigrant

Official Description: Became a resident of Kirkwall.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1635

The intro ends with Hawke having to work for the smugglers for a year. Welcome to Kirkwall! I’m sure nothing at all crazy will happen frequently.

Trophy 4: Craftsman

Official Description: Acquired your first crafting recipe.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1636

You have the ability to craft potions, poisons, and runes in this game. It’s not really crafting in my mind though. You basically exchange resources found in the world for these stuffs at the designated tables. The first recipe I got was for Rune of Protection from the dwarf dude at the very start of Act 1.

Trophy 5: A Friend in Need

Official Description: Upgraded the armor of one of your party members.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1637

Hawke is the only one who can equip the various types of gear you loot throughout the game. Her companions have their own armor style, but you can find up to 4 upgrades per companion to buff them up a bit.

The first upgrade I picked up was Inscribed Leather Harness for Varric. I bought it from a vendor in Lowtown. Doesn’t take long to earn money in this game if you’re addicted to side quests and looting things like I am!

Trophy 6: Birthright

Official Description: Kicked the slavers out of your ancestral mansion.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1638

Turns out Uncle Gamlen lost the family mansion to a bunch of worthless slavers thanks to a gambling debt. Breaking in and forcefully evicting the asshats reveals that Hawke’s mom’s parents didn’t disown her and they left her the mansion, not Gamlen.

Leandra isn’t too upset by her brother’s betrayal. Just knowing her parents didn’t die mad at her was all she needed. She’s too pure for this city… as proven horrifically in Act 2, but I digress.

Trophy 7: Gift Giver

Official Description: Gave a gift to one of your party members.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: Septmeber 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1639

While kicking the slaver jerks out of the old family mansion, I found a gift to give Bethany. It’s a photo of Leandra before she ran off with their Ferelden father. The pair discuss if Leandra would have been better off staying in Kirkwall and marrying the dude she was supposed to.

Trophy 8: Darkness Falls

Official Description: Toggled the map from day to night.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1640

Dragon Age II’s biggest flaw is its copy-paste environments, that’s for sure. The half-assed way to make even more areas is to have a day/night toggle for the City of Kirkwall. I’ll be honest and say this didn’t bother me at all during my first playthrough way back when. I was so invested in the story and characters it didn’t matter. The more playthroughs you do, the more tedious it feels.

Anyway, I’ll happily take the easy trophy for changing day to night. Thanks, lazy game.

Trophy 9: Friend

Official Description: Earned the friendship of one of your party members.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1641

Sister friends! My first earned friendship was with Bethany this playthrough. She highly approved of me letting Smuggler Boss Athenril’s errand boy flee Kirkwall and start a new life with his sisters.

Trophy 10: Treasure Hunter

Official Description: Opened 50 chests.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1642

I love looting everything shiny! That’s probably why I got this trophy so early into the game. The Deathroot in the Disused Passage apparently counted as a treasure chest for my 50th loot. Weird.

Trophy 11: Talented

Official Description: Upgraded a spell or talent
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 17th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1643

Got this one for upgrading Mighty Blow to Killer Blow. Yay for more punishing pwning power!

Trophy 12: Full House

Official Description: Recruited four party members.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 18th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1644

Dammit, Anders! Yep. The militant mage who probably means well was my 4th party recruit. I liked him much better in Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening. His cat Ser Pounce-a-lot was the best.

Trophy 13: Explorer

Official Description: Left Kirkwall to explore the outlying regions.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 18th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1645

The first generic wilderness area I explored was the Bone Pit. Gotta save those miners from dragons and their horrible boss!

Trophy 14: Knowledgeable

Official Description: Unlocked 100 codex entries.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1646

Codex entry #100 was Captain Reiner’s Accounting records while I was on the hunt for an escaped circle mage named Feynriel. Death to slavers!

Trophy 15: Dedicated

Official Description: Reached Level 10.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1647

Reached level 10 in generic cave layout #1 while rescuing Feynriel.

Trophy 16: Tag Team

Official Description: Used teamwork to perform a cross-class combo.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1648

While exploring the Wounded Coast, Bethany froze a dude and Hawke dashed into him for the c-c-c-cross c-c-c-class c-c-c-combo! Go go, sista powa!

Trophy 17: Financier

Official Description: Became a partner in a Deep Roads expedition.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1649

There’s an option to get a loan from some shady dwarves to get in on the expedition, but that will prevent you from getting this trophy. Besides, I wanted all the profit for myself.

When you’re addicted to side quests like I am, raising 50 bucks for this is no trouble at all. I chose to take Bethany and Anders with me for a very specific reason I shall babble about later.

Trophy 18: Delver of the Deep

Official Description: Explored the Deep Roads.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1650

The Deep Roads expedition hits a roadblock early on. Hawke needs to find a way around by battling some darkspawn, a dragon, and by seeing just how awesome Sandal is with the magics stuff (he froze an ogre in its tracks).

Trophy 19: Enchanter

Official Description: Enchanted an item.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1651

Finally did some enchanting while in the Deep Roads. I got Sandal to add a Rune of Frost to Varric’s beloved Bianca for no reason at all.

Trophy 20: Weapon Master

Official Description: Mastered a weapon style.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1652

I also had enough points to max out Varric’s Bianca skill tree. Can’t go wrong with a badass crossbow.

Trophy 21: Stone Cold

Official Description: Defeated the rock wraith on your expedition into the Deep Roads.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1653

Bartrand betrays everyone when he finds a shiny red idol, leaving them all to die in the Deep Roads. They find another way out that involves destroying a giant rock boss. This guy reminds me of Thardus from Metroid Prime. Perhaps his distant rock cousin? Phazon and red lyrium could totally be the same thing.

Trophy 22: Unstoppable

Official Description: Completed a full year in Kirkwall without any party member being knocked unconscious.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1654

No one got knocked out for my entire first year in Kirkwall! Well, Isabella went down once but I reloaded since I knew about this trophy. I almost lost a few people during the rock wraith fight due to dumb AI, but thankfully didn’t (stay behind the pillars, dammit).

Bethany always gets corrupted by the darkspawn taint if you take her with you on the expedition (not sure why its only her as pretty much everyone is covered in darkspawn blood at some point). The only way to prevent her from dying is to have Anders in your party as well. He will suggest you track down some nearby Grey Wardens who recruit Bethany into the order (after some convincing).

In all my playthoughs I’ve never gone this route before so it was cool to see it for the first time!

Trophy 23: Mogul

Official Description: Had 100 or more sovereigns in your purse.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1655

Ka-ching! The expedition makes Hawke rich even without the idol Bartrand stole. This trophy popped for me as soon as Bodhan gave Hawke her cut of the lootz.

Trophy 24: Specialized

Official Description: Took two class specializations.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1656

I went with Reaver and Berserker for Hawke’s extra specs. Rawr!

Trophy 25: A Worthy Rival

Official Description: Earned the Arishok’s respect.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1657

If you’re honest with the Arishok, don’t burn bodies to hide fanatical hate crimes, and inform him of everything you do that involves the Qunari, this trophy doesn’t take long to pop. Also bringing Fenris with you when you first speak to the Airshok in Act 1 helps a lot!

I had earned his respect long before the showdown in Act 2 meaning I didn’t have to worry about betraying Isabella for this trophy. Phew!

Trophy 26: That Thing Has Legs

Official Description: Found and killed a varterral.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1658

Merrill’s clan is absolutely terrified of her blood magic usage and poor Pol gets death by varterral when he flees from her. The varterral fight wasn’t too much trouble on Casual difficulty.

Trophy 27: Spelunker

Official Description: Visited 10 caves in Kirkwall and the surrounding area.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 19th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1659

Sundermount Passage in Act 2 was my 10th generic cave area visit. Nothing exciting to see here.

Trophy 28: Rival

Official Description: Earned the rivalry of one of your party members.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 21st, 2021
Overall Earned: #1660

Usually I am supportive of Merrill even though blood magic is always a bad idea. She is set in her ways and genuinely thinks she’s helping her clan. When I consider someone a true friend, I’ll do absolutely anything to help them.

This playthrough I decided to condemn her blood mage behaviour for an easy Rival trophy. She was so pissed when I wouldn’t give her the dagger. Destroying one of Xebenkeck’s evil tomes with her in the party dinged Rival quite easily after that.

Trophy 29: Exorcist

Official Description: Found and killed the undying Xebenkeck.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 26th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1661

Destroying all of Xebenkeck’s evil tomes for a side quest is the only way to summon it to slay it. Casual difficulty made this a breeze!

Trophy 30: Friends in High Places

Official Description: Met Grand Cleric Elthina, Viscount Dumar, Knight-Commander Meredith, and First Enchanter Orsino.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 28th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1662

Near the end of Act 2 (when the Quanri attack) I ran into Meredith and Orsino to complete this trophy. At least the common Qunari threat made Meredith and Orsino play nice with each other before their catastrophic clash in Act 3.

Trophy 31: Great Minds Think Alike

Official Description: Earned the friendship or rivalry of four party members.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 28th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1663

Isabella was max relationship person #4. It happened just as I refused to hand her over to the Arishok for stealing the Tome of Koslun.

Remember how I said I’d do anything to help people I consider friends? Screw off, Arishok!! Leave my pirate BFF alone. She can steal whatever she wants.

Trophy 32: King of the Hill

Official Description: Defeated the Arishok.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 28th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1664

Since Mr. Arishok respected me, I got to duel him one on one to save Isabella. Even on Casual difficulty he was quite capable of one-shotting my ass. I ran around the pillars and downed a lot of potions to pwn him.

Trophy 33: Arcane Defender

Official Description: Sided with the mages five times.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 28th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1665

I took Orsino’s side during the argument that opens Act 3 as the final side with the mages thing I needed. To be fair I think Meredith and Orsino are both fucking idiots, but I digress.

Trophy 34: Legendary

Official Description: Reached Level 20.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 29th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1666

Helping Isabella deal with her former heartless employer Castillon was the last bit of XP I needed to reach level 20.

Trophy 35: Master Craftsman

Official Description: Crafted all of the items from a single crafting tree.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 29th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1667

Checking every generic nook and cranny paid off! I found all the potion recipes and the Ambrosia from Isabella’s companion quest was the last thing I needed to craft all of them.

Trophy 36: Archeologist

Official Description: During each year in Kirkwall, discovered 3 secret messages from the Band of Three.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 29th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1668

The Band of Three are a bunch of scholars who left notes about Kirkwall’s even darker Tevinter times. Finding all of them in each Act was what I needed for this one. There’s one last one near the end of the game but you don’t need it for shiny trophy.

Trophy 37: Dragon Slayer

Official Description: Found and killed a high dragon.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 29th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1669

The Bone Pit mining co. saga comes to an epic conclusion with a high dragon boss fight in Act 3. It wasn’t a cakewalk, even on Casual difficulty, but I managed to take it down without dying.

Trophy 38: I Got Your Back

Official Description: Completely upgraded the armor of one of your party members.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 29th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1670

The high dragon dropped Enchanted Resin (along with other phat lootz) which was the last upgrade I needed for Fenris.

Trophy 39: Demon Slayer

Official Description: Found and killed the ancient demon, Hybris.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 30th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1671

Act 3 has three scrolls scattered about. Reading these scrolls triggers a mini boss-like fight in the area. Once all three are downed, you can check out the demon you inadvertently summoned by Ander’s Clinic in Darktown.

I loved Hawke’s sarcastic dialogue option: “Summoned a horror. Of course I did. Why wouldn’t I do that?”

Trophy 40: Conqueror

Official Description: Defeated Meredith, knight-commander of Kirkwall’s templars.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 30th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1672

Anders the wannabe martyr blows up the Chantry. Meredith goes full psycho-zealot enacting the Right of Annulment (gives her clearance to kill all mages). When the Templars corner him, Orsino uses Quentin’s blood magic notes (the serial killer freak who mutilated Hawke’s Mom in Act 2) to turn himself into the twisted Harvester creature from the Dragon Age: Origins – Golems Amgarrak DLC (way to ‘disprove’ all mages use blood magic… idiot).

After killing whatever the hell Orsino became, Meredith is fully taken over by the red lyrium idol she purchased from Bartrand (she melted it down and forged it into her sword) and goes after Hawke. She’s quite teleport-y and can bring statues to life, but the fight wasn’t too hard. It helps that all my companions and NPC friendz I made during the game jumped in to help.

Trophy 41: Champion of Kirkwall

Official Description: Completed Dragon Age II.
Type: Silver
Earned on: September 30th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1673

Pwning Meredith turns her into some kinda creepy shriveled red lyrium husk thing. The shell-shocked Templars just let my Hawke walk away and that’s it for the story!

Trophy 42: Epic

Official Description: Completed Dragon Age II twice, or completed it once with a save imported from Dragon Age Origins.
Type: Gold
Earned on: September 30th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1674

Before the credits roll (to the awesome tune of I’m Not Calling You a Liar by Florence + the Machine, I might add) Varric finishes his story and Cassandra lets him leave. The Mage Circles have all rebelled because of the events that unfolded in Kirkwall and the Chantry is trying to bring peace to the land once again. Cassandra believes Hawke is only person who can do this so she’s trying to track them down.

Trophy 43: Mercenary

Official Description: Allied yourself with the mercenaries upon arriving in Kirkwall.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: September 30th, 2021
Overall Earned: #1675

And time to make a generic male mage Hawke to go after the shiny trophies I missed! I’ve never done a mage playthrough before so it was cool (in a sad way) to see Bethany gets killed by the ogre instead of Carver. I’ve never gotten to know Carver before so that was neat.

Since I did the smuggler path last time, I chose the mercs this time. It was as simple as killing a jerk and reporting back.

Trophy 44: Flirtatious

Official Description: Flirted with one of your party members and began a romance.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 2nd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1676

I set up my mage Hawke with Fenris since I thought it would a hilarious case of opposites attract. Plus I sided with the Templars a lot for another trophy and Fenris highly approves of doing that.

Trophy 45: Mage Hunter

Official Description: Sided with the templars five times.
Type: Silver
Earned on: October 2nd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1677

I think the hardest part of siding with the Templars was turning Feynriel into a Tranquil (dangerous mages have all their feelings removed to become Tranquil) . Sorry, dude!

Trophy 46: Chantry Historian

Official Description: Found all four chapters of “The History of the Chantry,” by Brother Genitivi.
Type: Silver
Earned on: October 2nd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1678

Gah! This one is sneaky. When Mother Petrice kills the Viscount’s son and ambushes you in the Chantry during Act 2, this is your only chance to get Chapter 3. I completely missed that on my first Hawke.

Trophy 47: Supplier

Official Description: Found every variety of crafting resources.
Type: Silver
Earned on: October 2nd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1679

Misleading trophy description is misleading. You actually need to find every single resource node in one playthrough and they are all missable. I missed one bloody Silverite node on my last playthrough. Gr!

This made my 2nd playthrough more involved than I had intended (was hoping to skip a lot of the optional companion quests). The last node I got was the Felandarris during Merrill’s Act 3 quest. I didn’t actually finish the quest though, just grabbed the weed and ran. This spared the Keeper and Merrill’s clan from getting killed by me… again. Dammit, Merrill! Blood magic is bad.

Trophy 48: Romantic

Official Description: Completed a romance with one of your party members.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 2nd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1680

I guess to ‘complete’ a romance you need to have a hilariously cheesy makeout moment with your chosen companion before the final battles. 🤣

Trophy 49: Crowning Glory

Official Description: Became the viscount of Kirkwall.
Type: Silver
Earned on: October 2nd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1681

If you side with the Templars during the final showdown you automatically become the viscount of Kirkwall after taking out lyrium-crazed Meredith.

Trophy 50: Mass Exodus

Official Description: Reached Kirkwall with each character class across multiple playthroughs.
Type: Bronze
Earned on: October 2nd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1682

And the last thing I did for shiny platinum: make a generic female rogue Hawke and clear the intro with her.

Trophy 51: The Ultimate Reward

Official Description: Completed all Bronze, Silver and Gold Trophies
Type: Platinum
Earned on: October 2nd, 2021
Overall Earned: #1683

And that’s it! It was a fun experience to get the platinum trophy in a game I knew quite well on another platform.

The Supplier trophy was the biggest pain in the ass. Definitely grab a guide for that if you’re planning to go for this platinum. That should save you a lot of unnecessary playthroughs.