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Divinity Original Sin 2: Guide to Fun and Interesting Act 2 Side Quests (Part 1)
This guide covers the most interesting and rewarding side quests in Reaper's Coast (Act 2) of Divinity: Original Sin 2, including hidden encounters, unique rewards, and powerful armor sets. Multiple outcomes are explained for some quests.
1. 🐔 Counting Your Chickens: Rescuing stolen eggs and the consequences of decisions
- ✅ Speak with Big Marge to learn about the egg theft.
- ✅ Fight the Voidwoken at the marked location.
- ✅ Return the surviving egg to Marge.
- ⚠️ Upon returning, you will find the chickens dead and the egg hatched. The chick will consider you its mother.
- ⚠️ Speak with Big Marge using Spirit Vision. She will ask you to take Peeper to its father.
- ⚠️ If you refuse to deal with the chick, combat will begin. Peeper transforms into a Void creature and summons Void chickens. Daeyena will turn against you.
- ✅ If you accept, Peeper dies during the dialogue, you get more XP, a choice of rewards, and a treasure chest.
00:18 - 01:24
1. 🐔 Counting Your Chickens: Rescuing stolen eggs and the consequences of decisions
- ✅ Speak with Big Marge to learn about the egg theft.
- ✅ Fight the Voidwoken at the marked location.
- ✅ Return the surviving egg to Marge.
- ⚠️ Upon returning, you will find the chickens dead and the egg hatched. The chick will consider you its mother.
- ⚠️ Speak with Big Marge using Spirit Vision. She will ask you to take Peeper to its father.
- ⚠️ If you refuse to deal with the chick, combat will begin. Peeper transforms into a Void creature and summons Void chickens. Daeyena will turn against you.
- ✅ If you accept, Peeper dies during the dialogue, you get more XP, a choice of rewards, and a treasure chest.
01:25 - 02:41
2. 💰 Aggressive Acquisition: Discovering the truth behind Garvan's mentor and its possible outcomes
- ✅ Garvan in the Driftwood tavern asks you to recover his valuable cargo lost after a Voidwoken attack.
- ✅ At the marked location, follow the blood trails to the chest.
- ✅ Use Spirit Vision to speak with Garvan's mentor, who reveals the truth and asks you to take care of Garvan.
- ⚠️ Upon taking the chest, you will be ambushed and the fight will begin.
- ✅ Return to Garvan. The quest has multiple outcomes: you can keep the loot, return it, or kill Garvan directly.
- ✅ Interesting option: Give Garvan poisoned stew (regular stew + Void-tainted fish).
- ✅ Follow him when he goes to relieve himself, confront him about the murder of his mentor, and combat.
- ✅ Take his head and take it to Liam to get a reward and the location of a hidden treasure.
02:42 - 03:25
3. 🔔 Drowning Their Sorrows: Helping Captain Ablewether deal with her past and find her lucky charm
- ✅ Captain Ablewether in the tavern hears a bell for no explanation.
- ✅ Use Spirit Vision to discover that she is being tormented by the spirit of a former crew member.
- ✅ You can convince the spirit to move to the Hall of Echoes or consume its source.
- ✅ Ablewether reveals that she lost her lucky charm in a shipwreck.
- ✅ Go to the marked location and use telekinesis to pull the compass out of the ship.
| Amulet | Statistics |
|---|---|
| Lucky Compass | +2 Luck |
03:26 - 04:16
4. 💋 A Web of Desire: Obtaining multiple Idols of Rebirth from Dorotya the Decadent
- ✅ Dorotya the Decadent in the underground area of the tavern offers a special gift if you prove worthy (mention your victory in the Fort Joy arena).
- ✅ She offers to sacrifice 2 points of Constitution permanently to gain +2 in another attribute or receive an Idol of Rebirth.
- ✅ To get the idol, choose the fifth option (a kiss in private).
- ✅ Steal the first Idol of Rebirth before starting the dialogue.
- ✅ During the conversation, she transforms into a spider, gives you the kiss, and you receive a second Idol.
- ✅ Repeat the process with other party members to obtain additional bonuses.
- ✅ You can kill her to get 3000 XP, unique daggers, and additional loot.
04:17 - 04:44
5. ⚔️ The Driftwood Arena: Overcoming challenges and claiming the champion's key
- ✅ In the same underground area, you will find another arena.
- ✅ To fight the champion Murga, you must complete her challenge: a blind fight.
- ✅ The second fight is against Murga, but on the second turn, a Deep-dweller joins the battle.
- ✅ After winning, you will receive the champion's key.
- ✅ Open the hatch, turn the valve to deactivate the steam, and loot the arena vault, including the key of the one.
04:45 - 05:47
6. 🗝️ A Taste of Freedom: Freeing an undead and the consequences of his actions
- ✅ Go to Mordus' house and go down the stairs to find a hidden passage (requires Thievery 5 or the missing eye of the skull in Mordus' cave).
- ✅ Solve the puzzle (the clue is visible with Spirit Vision).
- ✅ Behind the door, you will find an undead tied to a torture device and a control panel.
- ✅ Press the green button to start combat.
- ✅ After the fight, he offers you a skill book of your choice.
- ✅ Later, you will find him feeding on dwarf corpses. You can kill him or offer him a source point in exchange for his promise to stop.
- ✅ If you accept, he consumes your source and disappears.
- ✅ In the final encounter, he needs your blood to open an altar and retrieve a flask containing his soul. If you accept, he leaves you a reward chest and leaves.
05:53 - 06:34
7. 🧞 Illusory Thinking: Negotiating with a Djinn to obtain the best reward
- ✅ On the shore, you will find a lamp emitting blue smoke. Rub it to release a Djinn.
- ✅ Using persuasion, you can ask him to grant you a wish.
- ⚠️ If you use strength or dexterity, he will twist your words.
- ⚠️ If you choose wit, the Djinn retreats into the lamp and becomes hostile if you summon him again.
- ✅ If you persuade him using intelligence, he grants the wish correctly, allowing you to choose your reward.
- ✅ Alternatively, you can attack him to gain more experience and an empty lamp that you can sell.
- ⚠️ If you sell the lamp before interacting with it, the merchant will rub it, the Djinn will escape, and attack everyone.
06:40 - 07:08
8. 🦅 Keep Calm and Carrion: Obtaining the Vulture Armor set and its powerful bonuses
- ✅ This quest rewards you with the Vulture Armor Set, especially strong for ranged builds.
- ✅ The set gives you floating, immunity to surface effects.
- ✅ You gain wings and a flight ability to reposition yourself once per turn.
- ✅ Farsight increases your attack and skill range.
- ✅ You become immune to blindness and gain other useful bonuses.
07:09 - 08:08
9. 🤝 Business Rivals: Navigating the conflict between Grog and Marg to obtain maximum profit
- ✅ On the Reaper's Bluffs bridge, you will find Grog, a troll who demands a toll of 5,000 gold.
- ✅ He will lower the price if you take care of his rival Marg on the east bridge.
- ✅ Marg asks you to kill Grog instead.
- ✅ You can:
- ✅ Help Grog and deal with Marg (keep him poisoned to stop regeneration). Grog rewards and leaves.
- ✅ Help Marg and kill Grog (keep him burning to stop regeneration). Marg raises the toll to 15,000 gold.
- ✅ Help Grog and collect his reward. Then, attack him to get extra XP and loot.
08:09 - 08:38
10. 🪦 The Heroes' Rest: Defeating the undead heroes and claiming their treasures
- ✅ In the cemetery, you will find the tomb of the four heroes.
- ✅ Upon reading the inscriptions, the heroes rise as undead and the fight begins.
- ✅ You will face them twice: first in weakened versions, then at full power.
- ✅ Collect the four reward chests they leave behind.
08:39 - 09:23
11. 🧠 An Existential Crisis: Surviving the battle of wits with Crispin the philosopher
- ✅ Near the waypoint altar in the cemetery, you will hear someone calling for help from a tomb.
- ✅ Dig it up and you will come face to face with the philosopher Crispin.
- ✅ It's not a physical fight, but a Battle of Wits.
- ✅ To survive, you must answer all his questions correctly.
- ✅ If you have an undead character, you can use specific dialogue options.
- ✅ Otherwise, the answers are found in three books inside Ryker's mansion (two on the first floor, one upstairs in the bedroom).
- ⚠️ A single mistake will result in the death of the character participating in the dialogue.
- ✅ If you win, Crispin is destroyed and you are rewarded with XP and the Mass Corpse Explosion skill book.
09:24 - 10:08
12. 🔥 A Stranger in a Strange Land: Honoring the remains of a lizard and obtaining a piece of the Devourer set
- ✅ Near the north gate, use Spirit Vision to reveal the spirit of a lizard.
- ✅ He asks you to burn his remains in the eternal fire so that his soul can move on.
- ✅ Throw the remains into the flames and the spirit appears one last time to thank you.
- ✅ You receive a reward of your choice.
- ✅ In one of the nearby corpses, you will find a piece of the Devourer set.
- ✅ The clue leading to the next piece is found in a cave in Blackpits.
10:09 - 11:03
13. 📜 Speaking in Forked Tongues: Opening the chest in the eternal fire using a lizard and the correct password
- ✅ In the center of the eternal fire, you will find a chest.
- ✅ First, you must take it out of the flames.
- ✅ The chest speaks an ancient language. You need a lizard character to understand it (the Red Prince with the Scholar tag works).
- ✅ The chest demands a password to open.
- ✅ You can persuade the chest to open or try to learn the password.
- ✅ To learn the password, you need a purebred lizard with the Scholar tag and the Pet Pal talent.
- ✅ Go to Ryker's mansion where you will find a salamander.
- ✅ The salamander explains that Ryker tried to open the chest and failed, and gives you the password.
- ✅ If none of these options work, the chest can be broken or forced, but this does not grant XP and the quest will remain unfinished.