In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you’ll experience snippets of Solas’s memory through certain story quests. The Labs Below is one of these quests that you’ll acquire early on, and it is also central to the Regrets of the Dread Wolf region quest, which reveals much about the ancient elves and Solas’s resistance against the Elven Pantheon.
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The Labs Below find you escaping one of Ghilan’nain’s labs after witnessing her unsettling Blight experiments. While a bit on the shorter side, the quest features a tricky puzzle and enemies that persistently respawn unless dealt with correctly.
How To Start The Labs Below
Once you’ve wrapped up the Singing Blade quest, you’ll have to step through Solas’s Eluvian to reach the Crossroads. The Caretaker will ferry you to the Converged City via the spirit boat, and you’ll arrive in a hub-like area where you’ll fight several enemies. Clear them out, then take the first eastern exit near the Gate of Deep Sorrows.
Follow the path until you reach a misty entryway. Crossing it will trigger the Labs Below quest, and after sliding down the slope, you’ll meet Tarasahl, who’ll tell you to grab the key on your right to escape Ghilan’nain’s lab.
How To Solve The Statue Puzzle
Navigating the lab and making your escape is straightforward, but you’ll have to face Darkspawns along the way. These enemies will continuously emerge from Blight Cysts to swarm you until you destroy the Cysts, so make them a priority first. At one point, you’ll reach an area with a rotatable statue and four doors.
The direction the statue faces determines which door opens, but your path forward lies through the north door. Unfortunately, a large Blight Cyst blocks your way out, which must be weakened by destroying linked Cysts.
Start by destroying the Blight Cyst near the northern door. After that, rotate the statue east, unlock the room, and destroy all Cysts inside, including one that hides a treasure chest. Rotate the statue south next, and enter the room to take out a Cyst on its ceiling.
A new Cyst will appear above the southern door, and destroying it will finally weaken the large Blight Cyst. Don’t bother with the western door as it has nothing of importance, so skip it. With all the Blight Cyst veins eliminated, remove the last one blocking your way out.
How To Complete The Labs Below
Once you’ve made your way out of the lab, you’ll have two more encounters with Darkspawn enemies before a cutscene featuring Solas, Ghilan’nain, and a Blighted Tarasahl follows.
You’ll get two dialogue options, but what you pick doesn’t matter. Since this is Solas’s memory you’re in, the outcome is already set in stone and can’t be altered.
After the cutscene, you’ll return to the present and find yourself in front of a large treasure chest and a Wolf Statuette. While collecting the statuette completes The Labs Below quest, this item is also necessary for making progress in the Regrets of the Dread Wolf questline.
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