- For side quests in other games, see Side quests.
Side quests are short optional quests in Dragon Age II. They provide experience, loot, and money when completed. They are generally shorter than secondary quests and companion quests.
Act 1[]
- Changing One's Nature
- Dark Epiphany
- Last of His Line
- Miracle Makers
- Night Lies
- Pier Pressure
- Secret Rendezvous
- Sharp Little Pinpricks
- Terror on the Coast
- The Conspirators
Fetch quests[]
All fetch quests reward 50 and 250 XP. ( Except for Eustice's Pommel which rewards 1 and 750 XP )
- Bottled Scar 5:34 Exalted - On a table in the Viscount's office.
- Caste Treatise and House Accounting - On a corpse in Dead Man's Pass, during Blackpowder Promise.
- Eustice's Pommel - In a sack inside the Bone Pit Mines during The Bone Pit (quest).
- Grimoire of the Apprentice - In a sack near the exit of Sanctuary during Enemies Among Us.
- Locks of the Golden Fool - A book in the Kirkwall Chantry.
- Map of Occupied Kirkwall - Inside a crate in the Dalish Camp, behind Master Ilen.
- The Paragon's Toe - Inside a crate in the smallest room upstairs of the Blooming Rose.
- Redblossom Special - In a crate at the southernmost point of the Wounded Coast.
- Remains of the Outlaw "Bearded Beast" - A body near the "leave area" marker at the Bone Pit.
- Remains of the Outlaw Half-Braid Silsam - A body in the Disused Passage found beneath the Docks.
- The Remains of Sister Plinth - A pile in the "Abandoned Mines" area in southeast Darktown, near Danzig.
- The Seal of House Talwain - Inside a crate near the exit to the graveyard in Sundermount Passage.
- Shawl of Dalesdottir - A crate in The Hanged Man during the day, down the hall from Varric's room.
Act 2[]
- A Debt in the Family
- Bounty Hunter
- Elves at Large
- The Fixer
- Forbidden Knowledge
- Hometown Breed
- Honoring the Fallen
- How to Frame a Templar
- Ladies' Lights Out
- The Lost Patrol
- The Lowdown
- The Midnight Meeting
- Search and Rescue
- Sketchy on the Details
- The Underground Railroad
Fetch quests[]
All fetch quests reward 1 and 750 XP.
- Lyrium-Laced Bilge Hoop - In a small barrel in the Deep Roads during Fool's Gold, near the other treasure. (This will be unavailable if importing a save from Awakening where Nathaniel Howe survived)
- Swatch of the Jackyard - During Raiders on the Cliffs, kill and loot Fell Orden.
- The One True Pantaloons - During Dissent, loot the Fine Dwarven Trousers from a dwarven mercenary.
- Goosegirl Cameo - During Bounty Hunter you will kill a blood mage named Heborah de Soliere on the Wounded Coast. The item is supposed to be looted from his corpse, but a glitch prevents his body from being looted; thus rendering this quest undoable.
- Wentworth's Sixth Finger - In a sack at The Bone Pit.
- Waxler's Hat - In a sack in the Disused Passage at the Docks during the night.
- Seal of the Old God Dumat - In a red crate in the same location.
- The Eyes of Azure Jamos - After exiting Sundermount Passage, a "Crazed Loner" Mage will attack Hawke. The item is looted from his corpse.
- "South-Song" Gerralt's Corpse - A body on the floor halfway through the Abandoned Thaig at Sundermount.
- Ream-Rot Knife - A sack in the southern part of the Sundermount Caverns.