Missing out loot in an RPG game is a fear that players don’t want to feel when they reach the end of the game. Since treasure chests is one of the best ways to find high-tier weapons and armor, you wouldn’t want to miss out on any of these. Here in this guide, we have compiled all the treasure chests in Arlathan Forest, we also have added the location, reward, ability, and quest details for each of them.
List of All Chests In Arlathan Forest In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Most of the chests are hidden behind puzzles only a few of them will require you to complete a side quest or main quest. We recommend you sink your teeth in this article after you have completed all the side and main quests, so you will not have to deal with the problem of being blocked off by some random door or area. This will happen a lot since so many of the areas are tied to the side quests.
Another important note, make sure to have the companion skills or you will have to face plenty of roadblocks on your way to the chest locations. With that out of the way, here is the location guide to all 13 (including 2 Timelost Hoard) treasure chests in Arlathan Forest.
Chest Locations #1 & #2
Location: Shoreside Ruins, Arlathan Forest
Reward: Forest Guardian’s Veil, Spelunker’s Gear
Ability Required: Unbind Wards, Eternal Hymn
Puzzle: Lift the Blue Magic Ward
Chest #1
Finish the Harding personal quest ‘An Unfamiliar Sense’ to unlock the Shoreside Ruins. There is a beacon in the location, so travel to the beacon, on the right you will see a door.
Puzzle:
Open the door and enter the room, once inside, you will come across a blue force field blocking the chest from interaction. We must turn off the blue force field with Unbind Wards.
Here get out of the room by taking the same door, and go around the room by taking the small route located to the right of the room’s door. You might not notice it, as it is covered with bushes, but you can enter without any issue.
On the back of the room, you will see a shiny magic ward pole, here use the Unbind Wards to deactivate the blue force field in the room. Then you can head back to the room inside and grab the first chest in Arlathan Forest.
Chest #2
Travel back to the beacon at Shoreside Ruins, take the log across the beacon to get to the other side. Turn left, and use the Eternal Hymn to lift the rock off the ground to get to the next area.
On the other side, again, use the Eternal Hymn on the ground next to the large rock ahead. Climb on the rock, here pull another Eternal Hymn on the rocky wall on our left. Then climb the ledges until you make it to the top of the platform, and here you will find the second chest.
Chest Location #3
Location: Shoreside Courtyard, Arlathan Forest
Reward: Camping Gear
Make your way to Tattered Bridge and then solve the puzzle to create a bridge to the chest location.
Get to Tattered Bridge
Move northwest of the second chest’s location to arrive at the Shoreside Courtyard. One of the landmarks in this area is two giant golden hands coming out of the ground. The hands are holding a platform. Climb on the ledge next to the golden hands to get on the platform.
Now look to your right, and you will see a ladder at a distance. The floor the ladder connects with will have some barrels next to the wall, destroy the barrels to burst the wall on the platform. Now jump down from the golden hands and climb the ladder to enter a new area called Tattered Bridge.
Here head straight, the path is linear. But it will be blocked by a wall, use Eternal Hymn to push the blocked wall to the side, to open the path for us. Take the route right of the zip line, climb the ladder, then take the stairs on the left to arrive at the puzzle area.
A blue force shield will block your route, interact with the activator on the left, and take out the small Crystal cube to disable the shield. Keep walking straight, you’ll come across another activator on the right. Use the cube to build a bridge to a platform on our right.
How To Solve The Tattered Bridge Puzzle In Arlathan Forest
The chest is located directly across the platform from our location. We have to conjure a bridge connecting our location to the chest’s platform. We have to align a single laser beam at the bridge activator found on the east of the chest’s platform.
The problem is the laser beam machine to activate the bridge is turned off, to solve the puzzle we will have to put the power back on the device. To supply power to the laser beam machine, we must power another laser beam machine that acts as a power connector to the other one.
In short, we have to activate two laser beam machines, the first one pointing at the second one, and the second one pointing at the bridge activator.
Knockdown the beam on the right platform
- On the edge of the platform, you can see a blue force field along with the chest in front of you, but both of them are inaccessible. So, take the bridge we created on the right. Once you are on the platform, you will see a beam on the back of the platform.
- Kick the beam down to connect to a new platform. Might not feel important now but it will come in handy later.
Start the First Laser:
- Now go back to the previous platform via the bridge we created, this time take out the cube from the activator on the right. This will disable the bridge on the right.
- Now install the cube on the activator to our left, once the cube is installed, a new bridge will form to a platform on our left. Here we will have a machine shooting laser at a distance. Interact with the laser beam and point at the crystal to our right.
- You will find the crystal directly below the platform where we knocked down the beam. Make sure the laser hits the crystal as it will direct the laser beam towards the treasure map location.
Start the Second Laser:
- Now get back to the platform with the activator. Don’t take the small cube with you, instead, we are going to use a shortcut to reach the platform with the second laser beam.
- From the cube activator, start moving right, on your left, you will see a couple of barrels under the archway, break them, and climb on the ledges, to reach the platform with the beam. Here walk on the beam to reach the second laser machine. Interact with the machine, and point the laser on the wall near the crates below. Once the laser hits, it will create a bridge connecting to the area in front.
Go back on the beam, cross the bridge, and collect the chest on the right.
Chest Location #4
Location: Jagged Ruins, Arlathan Forst
Quest: The Magic of the Ancients
Ability Required: Tinker
The Quest the Magic of the Ancient starts off with an Ancient Artifact, our job here is to fix up Elven Artifacts near the Jagged Ruins. Here we are not going to cover the entire quest, we will focus on getting the route unlocked to the treasure route.
Puzzle: We will have to fix a broken device, and then shoot a laser beam at it to create a bridge that will unlock the route to the treasure chest.
- Travel to the beacon at Jagged Ruins, here follow the exclamation mark near the beacon to get the quest “The Magic of the Ancients“.
- Follow the marker and get on the slope on the left, after a bit of walk take the stairs to your left as well. Keep heading straight, right on the edge you will find a broken device, here use the Tinker ability to activate the machine.
- With that done, take the zipline left of the device we fixed with Tinker to the platform across. Here you will find another broken device next to the broken structure, use the Tinker ability to fix it.
- Now interact with the laser beam located a bit left of the device, and point the laser at the second device we fixed right next to the zip line. Just take the beam a bit right from its location and you will find the spot.
Once the laser hits the spot, it will create a bridge connecting to the path, where we will find the treasure chest. Once the beam is pointing in the right direction, jump on the platforms on the left of the beam machine, and lastly jump down below on the bridge, move to the left and you will find the fourth treasure chest.
Chest Location #5
Location: Nameless Building, Arlathan Forest
Reward: Split-Hilt Dirk
Ability Required: Tinker
Head to the beacon at Nameless Building, in the middle of the map. Take the route left of the beacon, and then go down the ladder. Climb down the ledges to get on the ground, start heading straight, and then take a left turn. Keep moving in the same direction, cross the water, and climb the ledges upfront.
Puzzle: We need to insert a crystal cube in the activator to take the blue wall around the treasure box.
The ledges will take you to an open room, and a rift will bust open the door on the left, but we will save that for later. First head to the broken device on the right, and use the Tinker ability to fix it.
Now take the route left of the area (opened by the rift). Here you will find a couple of crates on the ground, break the crates, and you will find a small cube crystal. Take the crystal and insert it into the device we fixed in the room.
This will put up a blue wall on the doorway, next to the device. The path is blocked for us to move through, but we can take the path left of the blue force field. After you take the route on the left of the wall, the next step is to walk across the beam to get to the area with the chest. Open the chest and grab the loot.
Chest Locations #6 , #7 & #8
Location: Ancient Aqueduct, Arlathan Forest
Reward: Defiant Silence, Firebrand, Jumper’s Deft Leathers
Make your way to the Ancient Aqueduct, here we will have three chests to open. The first two are fairly easy, the third one will need some workaround.
Chest #6
Puzzle: The puzzle here is fairly simple, we will just have to open a rift to bust open wall to the chest location.
- Travel to the beacon at Map Level 3 in Ancient Aqueduct and go to the tower in the middle that connects two bridges.
- You will find a giant owl statue in the center. Just interact with the writings on the glyph below the giant owl to unlock the first phase. After some dialogues, interact with the writings again on the glyph to create a rift behind the statue.
Interact with the rift and quickly roll back, as it will explode. The rift will destroy the wall behind the statue, and the treasure chest will be wide open for us to loot.
Chest #7
Take the ladder from chest #6, after dropping down from the ladder take the path on the right. You will find a fox statue in front of you. Here you will have to deal with enemies, defeat them, and then move right from the statue and you will find the seventh treasure chest in Arlathan Forest. Once you collect the loot from the chest, make your way back to the previous chest location.
Chest #8
Puzzle: We have to activate a device to turn on a laser, and then point the laser at a crystal to form a bridge that connects to the Treasure Chest’s platform.
- From chest number six, turn around, and take the broken bridge straight across the owl statue. Once you are in the beacon area, take the stairs on the left. Head straight, pass the river, and climb the ledges upfront. Once you are at the top of the ledge, you will find a zip line on your left, get on the zipline to reach the platform across.
- Once you land on the platform, your path will be blocked by a blue force field, on the right you will find an activator powering the wall. Take the Crystal cube off the activator, this will take out the blue force field off the wall. Now you can head inside, here take the route left of the statute, and in the middle of the walkway, you will find an activator same as before next to a laser beam.
- With the crystal cube in our possession, interact with the device to activate the laser beam machine. Once the laser is activated, interact with the beam and move it to your left, near the broken bridge, here you will find the proper crystal spot for our laser. So, point the laser on the crystal near the bridge,
Now head back to the previous room with the statute, here, use your range weapon at the red barrels next to the wall, to destroy it. Now you get inside, take the bridge to the chest ahead.
Chest Locations #9 & #10
Location: Ancient Aqueduct, Arlathan Forest
Quest: How to Train a Griffon
Reward: Duelist’s Coat, Dark Shard
- How to Train a Griffon is a companion quest for Davrin. The quest will unlock after you have your interaction with Davrin in the lighthouse. The requisite quest here is A Warden’s Best Friend.
Here we have two chests to focus on in the Ancient Aqueduct area, both chests can be obtained one after another, so follow the steps to get both of them easily.
Travel to the beacon east of the Ancient Aqueduct, take the stairs on your left, pass the water, and turn right to enter the cave. Inside the cave, turn right, and go through the door. Now we have two branching paths, the path on the left has a treasure chest, same goes for the path on the right.
Taking the Path on The Right
Here turn right, pop the ladder on the left and head straight, jump over the river to find chest number nine.
Once you collected chest number nine, drop it down from the ledge on the water next to it. Turn left, and take the ladder we dropped earlier to get on the platform.
Taking the Path on The Left
Now for the left path to collect the next treasure chest.
This will send us to an open area, we don’t explore the entire region since our chest is located on our left. Get down from the spot, and take the stairs on the left. Right on the doorway, you will spot a lever on the wall to your left, pull it down.
On the exit ahead of you, climb on the ledges on the left. And start moving to your left and you will eventually you will find the treasure chest behind the archway in the corner to your right.
Note: Finishing the quest How to Train a Griffon unlocks the area quickly, but if you skip the quest, the area will get unlocked a bit later. We recommend you finish the quest to unlock the region and come back later to hunt the chest.
Chest Location #11
Location: Nameless Building, Arlathan Forest
Quest: Fire and Ice Main Questline and Unwanted Guest
Reward: Focal Blade
Puzzle: Align Six Statues
Boss: Bursting Rage Demon
- Talk to Strife and Irelin in the Veil Jumper camp, Arlathan Forest to take the Unwanted Guest questline. It’s a long quest, so prepare for a trip. Once you finish the quest you will be ready to take the last chest.
Travel to the Nameless Building beacon in the middle of the map, and head to the doorway across the beacon. Now turn right, and jump down the ladder. Head straight until you reach a new area called Shadowy Grove.
In the region, you will find a statute in the middle with a purple hue coming out of it. There will be a note next to the statute, read it.
Note: In order to see the purple statute in Shadowy Grove, you need to finish the side quest Unwanted Guest which unlocks after you tackle the Fire and Ice Main storyline quest.
Puzzle: We must align five statues, all pointing to the purple statue. Make sure the Handles on each statue point to the Purple statue in the middle.
Tip: It will be easier if you focus on the handle on each statue since they are located under the front of the body. Use the Handles of the statue to act as a face of the body.
Some statues may need two interactions or one, but our goal is set, make sure all five statues around the purple statue have their handles pointing at the middle. When that happens, the purple statue in the middle will disappear and release a boss for us to fight.
Now that you are near the end game, you are going to have an easy time fighting the boss. Defeat the boss, head to the purple statue area, or where it used to be, and loot the treasure.
Chest Location #12 (Unique Weapon)
Location: Arlathan Forest, Waterfront Glades
Reward: Iron Veil
Ability Required: Stone Song, Eternal Hymn
Boss: Guardian of Secret
Quest: How to Train a Griffon
How To Solve The Laser Beam Puzzle In Waterfront Glades, Arlathan Forest
Puzzle: Here, you must finish the Laser Beam puzzle in Waterfront Glades to remove the force barricading the treasure in the middle. Four laser beams have to be pointed at the crystal near the barricade. Once the barricade lifts up, we can access the chest in the area.
First Laser Beam:
- From the center overlooking the chest, take the path on the right, climb the stairs, and walk across the log to get to the other side. Now use the Stone Song ability on the rock on the left, use it to get to the floor above.
- Now to cross the gap in the middle use Eternal Hymn to bring the rock from the front, and jump. Since you are going to be this way again, turn around and do the same to bring the rock from the other side as well. As they will now connect each other, and act as a bridge.
- Head straight to the treasure box, and jump down to the floor below from here. Here take the laser beam and point it at the spot above the wall.
Second Laser Beam:
- Now turn left from the laser beam, and take the stairs in the front. Make your way back to the treasure chest area, and interact with the second laser to a platform below.
Third Laser Beam:
- Now again, drop down from the treasure chest like the last time, here pass the first laser beam and drop down to the floor below. Head straight through the broken windows, passing the stairs on the right. Here break the crates behind the statues, and pick up the small crystal cube.
- Use the crystal cube on the activator next to the laser on your right, near the water. Point the laser beam at the crystal on the right of the area.
Fourth Laser Beam:
- Now take the stairs left of the activator, then turn left to walk on the log to get to the other side. Keep heading straight pull the leaver right next to the gate to bring it down.
- Walk along the ledges to reach the platform with a blue force field. Interact with the activator on the right to remove the crystal cube and turn off the barrier. Go inside and use it on the activator next to the laser beam device.
- Point the laser beam at the crystal at a distance to break the barrier off the chest area.
Now, you can get into the area, but you will have to come face to face with a Guardian of Secret mini-boss. After defeating him, open the chest.
Chest Location #13 (Unique Weapon)
Location: Arlathan Forest, Tainted Woods
Quest: Gate of Faded Glories (Region Quest)
Ability Required: Eternal Hymn
Reward: Fade-Touched Bulwark
- Travel to the Tainted Woods beacon at the north of the map. Our chest is located south of the beacon. From the beacon, take the route on the left, and use the Eternal Hymn to lift the rock up.
- Use Eternal Hymn again on the right corner of the area. Use the lifted-up rocks and then a ladder to reach the highest point here.
Puzzle: Here destroy all six glowing red orbs in the area, you can do it from the top, they are all seen from the bird-eye-view we have on the top. The last orb will be at our back, left of the stairs.
Once the last one is off the menu, go through it and we will find the last chest in the game.
This concludes all the chests in Arlathan Forest. Hungry for more chests in Dragon Age Veilguard? We got you covered, check our all-chest guides on Hossberg Wetlands, Dock Town, Necropolis Halls, and Treviso Canals.