Dragon Age Inquisition: 16 Weird Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed

16. The Haunting Of Hill House

Not a direct reference, though with many elements which are clearly inspired by the original novel, a haunted mansion found in the Emerald Graves bears striking resemblance to Shirley Jackson's iconic 1959 haunted house novel.

The mansion itself, Chateau d'Onterre, is an enjoyably spooky mini-dungeon, where the Inquisitor and her group must figure out what happened in the mansion and why it's filled with walking corpses and an evil atmosphere.

If Cole is in the party, he says "It knows we're here" as you walk through the mansion and supernatural things start to occur - referencing Hill House protagonist Eleanor Vance's own line in the book.

Related to the events of the story, another side quest, triggered when you find the corpse of a woman in a river, reveals that a woman named Betta, travelling with a girl named Liesel and a little boy named Yves, was haunted by a demon that took on the form of her mother, who died of illness, when they found shelter in the Chateau as they attempted to flee the war.

These hearken back to the way Eleanor Vance was haunted by the image of her own ailing mother and pushed into suicide.