Awakening - Petal the Mabari

⭐ — (73 endorsements) 📥 964 downloads 📌 v1.1 📅 6/30/2025
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By BlickJustice · Creatures

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 4/5/2026 📅 Created: 6/30/2025

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  • 👍 7.6% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #21 of 21 Creatures mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

During a quest in the Vigil, "Adria's Plight", we have an opportunity to meet a mabari hound. In the Awakening Fixes and Tweaks mod, Shanamah fixed the related dialogue and added a very immersive follow-up to the quest. I decided to expand

The quest Adria's Plight can be started in Vigil's Keep, at any moment after the Prelude.

About the quest:

Soon after entering the basement, we find a wounded mabari lying amidst a few darkspawn bodies. The mabari is wounded, but it's possible to help it. The Warden also finds a note, which turns out to be a call for help from the mabari's owner - Adria.

Reading the note starts the Adria's Plight quest. It's good to have Nathaniel Howe in the party if he is available, as the quest concerns his character. The note mentions the animal's name - Petal.

From Shanamah's mod description - "--Adria and Her Dog: Edits to the quest "Adria's Plight", mostly to expand options in the dog's dialog, and also to prevent a bug in Adria's dialog."

What's more:

My additions:

I edited the .utc file for the mabari's name to be displayed, instead of the default "Mabari". The curious animal runs around the Keep, but will be very happy to stop for a moment and greet her saviour. I added a short conversation (triggers once) and an ambient line.

Update 1. 1 - Shanamah's vgk310_dog.dlg contained a bug described by user @Majed in the AFaT comments. As @Majed described it:"Regarding Adria and her dog, when I find the mabari and first inspect the scroll and calm the dog afterwards, the camera will point to the door and nothing happens, until I hit the escape key and everything continues. When first calmed the scene ends on it's own.

I only have Oghren and Anders in my party, haven't encountered Nathaniel yet."So, the bug appeared with that specific order. I've managed to fix it, aided by 0mnomnom's invaluable help with testing.

Additionally:

1) Shamanah's custom lines have unique ID now, instead of the default "0"

2) The "whimper" line plays out only if the player doesn't pass the skill check. Made to be consistent with a Shanamah's custom line:

Awakening Fixes and Tweaks is required for this mod to work, and recommended for the other bugfixes included in it.

Installation:

Documents/Bioware/Dragon Age/packages/core/override

Uninstallation:

Remove from the folder

Special thanks

Shanamah for the Adria's dog component and the rest of AFaT

0mnomnom for a great help with testing and narr

📊 Mod Details

Game
Dragonage Mods
Author
BlickJustice
Version
1.1
Downloads
964
Endorsements
73
Category
Creatures
Created
6/30/2025
Updated
4/5/2026

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