Reaver (Origins)
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- See also: Specializations, Talents, and Reaver (Dragon Age II)
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| Type: | Warrior | ||
| Effects: | +1 constitution +5 physical resistance | ||
| Description: | Demonic spirits teach more than blood magic. Reavers terrorize their enemies, feast upon the souls of their slain opponents to heal their own flesh, and can unleash a blood frenzy that makes them more powerful as they come nearer to their own deaths. | ||
Reaver is one of the specializations available to the warrior class in Dragon Age: Origins.
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Reaver talents 
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 Devour | Activated Range: Personal Activation: 25 Cooldown: 30s | The reaver revels in death, absorbing the lingering energy of all nearby corpses, each of which partially restores the reaver's own health. |
 Frightening Appearance | Activated Range: Personal Activation: 25 Cooldown: 20s Requires: Level 12 | This talent focuses the Reaver's unsettling countenance into a weapon, making a target cower in fear unless it passes a mental resistance check. Frightening Appearance also increases the effectiveness of Taunt and Threaten. |
 Aura of Pain | Sustained Upkeep: 60 Fatigue: 5% Cooldown: 45s Requires: Level 14 | Radiating an aura of psychic pain, the reaver takes constant spirit damage while this mode is active, as do all enemies nearby. |
 Blood Frenzy | Sustained Upkeep: 60 Fatigue: 5% Cooldown: 60s Requires: Level 16 | Driven by pain, the reaver gains larger bonuses to damage whenever health decreases. Because this mode also incurs a penalty to health regeneration, the reaver flirts with death the longer the frenzy persists. |
Unlocking Edit
During The Urn of Sacred Ashes quest, the Warden will meet a man named Kolgrim in the Mountainside Caverns. If he is not provoked he will offer the Warden a vial of blood to pour on Andraste's Ashes. Once the Warden has navigated through the Gauntlet, pour the blood into the urn and speak with Kolgrim outside. He will teach you the Reaver specialization.
It is recommended that you do not have Wynne or Leliana in the party when fouling the Ashes as they will automatically attack you; as the Guardian also attacks you it can be an incredibly hard fight, especially as you will only have yourself and one party member remaining. So other party members should be taken rather than them. However, if you hardened Leliana after her quest, she will still object to pouring blood on the Ashes, but she can be intimidated into obedience.
Defiling Andraste's Ashes with the blood will not automatically cause Leliana to leave the party. You can persuade/lie to her, which will work if she wasn't in the party when you completed the quest. She will just take an approval hit which is easily countered by gifts and more pious or charitable actions later.
If you do not wish to suffer the repercussions of tainting Andraste's Ashes, you can pour the blood in the Urn to complete the quest with Kolgrim and receive the Reaver specialization. Then load any previous saved game (such as right before meeting Kolgrim for the first time) and the specialization will be still unlocked to put a point in upon your character's next advancement in level.
Additionally, it can be unlocked in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening by purchasing the manual from the bartender at The Crown and Lion tavern in the City of Amaranthine.
Notable Reavers Edit
Trivia Edit
- Considering this specialization is acquired from the memories of a wyvern, it's unclear why demons are mentioned at all.
- Becoming a reaver is the only time dragons are ever referred to as wyverns in the game. However, in Dragon Age II Mark of the Assassin, wyverns are revealed to be related to dragons.
Reference Edit
Dragon Age: Origins - PRIMA Official Strategy Guide
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