DA2: If Varric kept Red Lyrium Shard by SPARTAN22294 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Note: I only did this for the screenshot.

Later Hawke went to the Hanged Man Tavern in Kirkwall's Lowtown to check up on Varric Tethras of House Tethras and it looks like he back to old self.

Note: Varric's outfit name changes from Varric's Tailored Leather Duster to Varric's Armored Leather Duster. (But it looks the same.)

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If the Red Lyrium Fragment was kept...

We learn later in Dragon Age 3 that Varric had the Mining Caste and Smith Caste construct a vault in Kirkwall and kept the Red Lyrium Fragment locked away in it. (To pacific Bianca Davri of the Mining Caste was the main one that build it.) Varric has been having a few alchemists study it but is particularly careful to make sure that exposure to it is limited. Varric claims he wanted to discover if it is possible to remove the Red Lyrium's effect of madness yet so far has found no success.
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Dragon Age II © BioWare and Electronic Arts
Screenshot taken from Dragon Age 2 on XBOX ONE thanks to the backwards compatibility.