Dragon Age Origins: Beraht's goodwill Dragon Age: Origins Guide
Last update: 07 June 2024
Received from: Beraht [Orzammar - Commons - Dust town - Home]
Description: Start off by talking to your superior Beraht and with your sister Rica (M4, 1). It doesn't really matter which dialogue options you'll choose, because you'll still learn a lot about your current situation and about your sister trying to find a husband. Beraht will order you to team up with Leske and to finish a new assignment for him. End this conversation and leave the hut (M4, 2) to find yourself standing in [Orzammar - Commons - Dust town] (M4, 3). Talk to Leske here - he'll automatically become a member of your team.
Leske will inform you that Beraht wants you both to locate Oskias and to find out if he's been trying to sell goods without sharing profits. Proceed to the northern area of the slums and it shouldn't take long to find a passageway leading to [Orzammar - Commons] (M4, 4). Here you'll have to travel to [Orzammar - Commons - Tavern] (M5, 1). Once you're inside you can either talk to the bartender first or you can proceed directly to Oskias. He'll be sitting next to one of the larger tables (M5, 2).
You can find the goods being sold by Oskias by using brute force and searching his bags (ignore his protests) or by using your persuasion skills. Either way you'll find out that he's been smuggling lyrium. You can now kill Oskias and take the lyrium from his dead body or you can persuade him to giving you these items. If you want to choose a peaceful solution you'll have to intimidate him to hand over the goods. End the conversation by killing Oskias or by letting him go.
During the conversation with Oskias you'll also be presented with a third solution - you can decide to keep the lyrium to yourself and avoid sharing it with Beraht. In this case you'll want to negotiate terms of splitting the profits with Leske (you can persuade him to take only 1/4 of the coins) and you'll have to think of a way to sell the lyrium. Leske will inform you that his friend Olinda in [Orzammar - Commons] (M5, 3) can buy the smuggled goods. Go and talk to her and you'll find out that she'll give you 30 silver coins for a single unit (this means you can earn up to 45 silver coins). If you don't want to lie to Beraht skip this step entirely. Finish this quest by heading over to [Orzammar - Commons - Beraht's shop] (M5, 4).
This conversation (M5, 5) can start and end differently, depending on the choices you've made so far. If you haven't killed Oskias you can lie about it, however Beraht would know that you're not telling the truth. In this case you would have to admit to letting him free or attempt to persuade him and come up with a story about how he's been killed. As for the smuggled lyrium, you can hand over all the goods to Beraht, give him only one object or lie that you haven't found anything. If you decide to keep the lyrium to yourself you'll have to sell the goods prior to entering the shop or use your persuasion skills, because otherwise you would be searched. Thankfully even if you fail in outsmarting Beraht he won't kill you and he won't even punish you. This conversation will end with your team receiving a new assignment. This time you'll have to help one of Beraht's men to win fights in the arena.