TAINTED BLOOD

Walkthrough

Tainted Blood is a main quest which requires the Warden to provide the materials needed for the mysterious Joining Ritual of the Grey Wardens. To proceed in the Joining, Duncan tasks his recruits (and Alistair) with gathering three vials of darkspawn blood from the Korcari Wilds.

This is a relatively simple quest. Keep eliminating hostile creatures during your time spent in the Korcari wilds and check their bodies after each battle to keep finding vials of darkspawn blood. You'll be dealing mostly with genlocks and hurlocks and it shouldn't be hard to kill them as long as you don't attack too many of them at the same time. You'll have to acquire only three vials for the purpose of this mission, however you'll find more of these objects and it'll be up to you if you want to keep collecting them.

After you've collected three vials you could return to Ostagar, however I would recommend to keep playing, because you'll have to complete the second quest (The Grey Wardens' cache) anyway. Before doing The Grey Warden's Cache if you're a person to do side quests, I would highly recommend to do them first, cause once you do The Grey Warden's Cache, there is no returning to the Kocari Wilds.

Once you've returned from the Korcari wilds for good talk to Duncan (Ostagar M1, 2) and assuming that you've completed both tasks you'll take part in the ritual. Don't worry about it, because you'll survive the process and automatically trigger a new important quest - After the ritual.