Blackened Heartwood Staff

Blackened Heartwood Staff
Type	Staff
Material	Iron (Tier 1)
Damage	4.00 (Nature)
Requires	16 magic
Restriction	Mage
Armor Penetration	20.00
Range	50.0
Spellpower	1
Stats	+2 damage +2 spellpower
Value	1 10 0
Description	The damage the darkspawn inflict is not limited to violence they commit. Their presence appears to corrupt, tainting the earth and all that lives. This staff was once mahogany heartwood, but no more. Where the wood ends and the metal begins is not even clear.
Item ID	gen_im_wep_mag_sta_bhs
Appearances	Dragon Age: Origins

Blackened Heartwood Staff is a staff in Dragon Age: Origins.

Acquisition

Found during the Magi Origin (Bound in Blood and Magic) in the room containing the Tevinter statue in the basement of the Circle tower. At the end of the quest, First Enchanter Irving will ask if the Warden took anything of importance from the basement. The Warden needs to have at least one rank of Coercion to keep the staff. If the Warden denies taking anything of importance and fails to persuade Irving, he will reclaim it. If your Warden destroys the staff, the game will treat it as if you haven't taken it.

Dragon Age RPG

In the Dragon Age (tabletop RPG), Blackened Heartwood Staff is available as a "permanent magic item" reward for player characters.

“This wood-and-iron quarterstaff was once made of mahogany heartwood, but no more. The corrupting presence of darkspawn during one of the Blights has twisted and tainted it so that its no longer possible to tell where the wood ends and the metal begins. Even so, a bit of its ancient magical power remains.”