Praetorian815: The first woods map has someone called the "Mysterious Man". When you talk to him, you only get a popup about how he's mute and looks sad and resigned, and no one else has any dialogue options about him. If he's the werewolf, I don't know what I'm supposed to do to trigger the quest.
Jarmo: Did you visit the cave in that map as well? Can't remember details anymore.
Anyway, I think you meet them again before the very end and that's when the item is going to trigger.
Could be wrong though, but maybe just try to play on.
Yeah, I've been to the cave. I told the witches to hide there. Later, I told one of their husbands to go there, too. His name is Vuradush. Does that sound familiar to you?
Just so we're on the same page, are you saying that the werewolf and his quest are what will give me placeholder 3?
Also, I've actually finished the module at this point. I went through the final boss fight and everything. I didn't get placeholder 3, but for some reason I have two copies of placeholder 5. That's weird.
I only have one other idea of where placeholder 3 might be. At one point you come across someone called the "Mad Mage" who inexplicably knows stuff about you. Given that all the placeholders seem to relate to your character's backstory and personal life, it would make sense for the item to be there, but I talked to him about everything and didn't get any items. There was someone else there named Francesco who follows you around until you tell him to leave. I told him to leave because he kept bugging out and disappearing, I didn't know what to do with him, and I didn't want him popping up unexpectedly and screwing up a scene later on. I got 100 XP for telling him to leave, so it would seem that that's something you're supposed to do, but I don't know.
My thread on the Bioware forums finally appeared a few hours ago. No replies yet, though; I'll see how it goes.
In the worst case scenario, is there a way to give myself the item with a console command or something?