Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire quests

This page lists all quests in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire.

Main quests

Following the destruction of Caed Nua by Eothas, who occupied the adra statue devoted to Maros Nua, the Watcher ends up with a maimed soul and a desperate need to find the god to save his soul and himself. However, they will find out more than they bargained with, as with their hunt for Thaos.

The Hunt for Eothas

• Prologue: After Eothas awakens in Maros Nua's titan and destroys Caed Nua, the Watcher awakens in the Beyond.
• Stranded: The storm hurls you against Vilario's Rest and you need to figure out how to get off the island to hunt the god of light.
• To Hunt a God: You need to figure out how to hunt the god as well.
• The Veins of Eora: Luminous adra matters to Eothas - and to you. Find a way to locate them, so that you can commune with Eothas.
• A Distant Light: Investigate Hasongo, which recently witnessed the god's passing.
• He Waits in Fire: Follow Eothas up Ashen Maw in Magran's Teeth and confront him.
• The Coming Storm: Find a way to navigate through Ondra's Mortar.
• The City Lost to Time: Confront Eothas at Ukaizo.

End

See: Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire endings

Side quests

These are miscellaneous quests which are not vital to the main storyline.

Quest	Given by	Start location	Notes
Helping Hands	Automatic	Maje Island: Vilario's Rest
Lost Dues in Good Faith	Kahn	Neketaka: Queen's Berth
Mapping the Archipelago: Port Maje	Sanza		Mapping series
Mapping the Archipelago: Tikawara
Mapping the Archipelago: West Wakara Reef
Mapping the Archipelago: The Burning Shoals
Mapping the Archipelago: Razai Passage
Family Pride	Automatic		All are part of the VTC family feud arc
A Sinking Feeling	Ezzali Bardatto
A Bigger Fish	Martino Valera
The Storms of Poko Kohara	Atsura / Lueva Alvari
The Final Voyage	Captain Teryc Lofell	Neketaka: Serpent's Crown
Upon New Shores	Masog		Unobtainable (cut content)
The Archmage's Vault	Netehe / Tumara	Neketaka: Periki's Overlook	Arkemyr's quest arc
Bekarna's Folly	Arkemyr
Eulogy for the Dead	High Priest Kasu	Neketaka: The Sacred Stair
The Cornett's Call	Dereo the Lean	Neketaka: The Gullet
Food for Thought	Enoi
Harsh Medicine	Pitli
Broodmother's Fury	Himuihi	Tikawara
Hunting Season	Fleet Master Okaya	Sayuka
Tip of the Spear	Master Kua	Crookspur	Crookspur slavers extension quests
Cruel Cargo	Ruāsare	Ori o Koīki
Nemnok the Devourer	Tatok	Junvik village
A Paradise of the Mind	Copperhead	Splintered Reef
The Ultimate	Automatic		Challenge quest

Faction quests

Huana questline

Quest	Given by	Start location	Notes
Trade Secrets	Prince Aruihi	Kahanga Palace
The Last Sanctuary
From the Wreckage	Automatic	World map
The Shadow Under Neketaka	Queen Onekaza II	Kahanga Palace
Fruitful Alliance
Taking Out the Traders

Principi questline

Quest	Given by	Start location	Notes
Blow the Man Down	Captain Furrante	World map
Symbols of Death		Dunnage
A Shrewd Proposition
Honor Among Thieves	Automatic	World Map
A Dance with Death	Captain Furrante / Captain Aeldys	Dunnage / Fort Deadlight
Aeldys' quest line
Goods and Services	Captain Mad Morena / Captain Aeldys	Undercroft / Fort Deadlight

Royal Deadfire Company questline

Quest	Given by	Start location	Notes
The Brass Empire	Automatic	Kahanga Palace
Dim Prospects	Atsura	Imperial Command
A Matter of Import	Hazanui Karū
Overgrowth	Fleet Master Okaya	Sayuka
Clearing Out Crookspur	Atsura	Imperial Command
The Final Maneuver	Hazanui Karū

Vailian Trading Company questline

Quest	Given by	Start location	Notes
For the Republics!	Automatic	Kahanga Palace
Terms of Trade	Lueva Alvari	Vailian Trading Company Headquarters
Dirty Laundry	Ignato Castol
Of Like Minds
A Glimpse Beyond	Flaune Elette / Director Castol	Spire of the Soul-Seers
Skipping Ahead	Flaune Elette
A Vote of No Confidence	Lueva Alvari	Vailian Trading Company Headquarters
Sabotage at the Brass Citadel	Director Castol / Lueva Alvari

Companion quests

Every scripted companion has a personal side-quest that you can complete together with them. Tekehu is technically the exception, although he is heavily featured in The Shadow Under Neketaka.

• The Painted Masks (Aloth)
• The Lighted Path (Eder)
• The Courier's Calling (Maia)
• The Man of Chimes (Pallegina)
• A Sorcerer and a Gentleman (Serafen)
• The Lantern of Gaun (Xoti)

Tasks

Tasks tend to be less complex and significant than full-fledged side quests.

Task	Given by	Start location	Notes
Basic Provisions	Automatic	World map
Skeleton Crew
Burning Bridges	Rinco	Port Maje Harbor
The Better Man	Thorel
Restoring Order	Savia
The Drunk Sailor	Rum-Dumb Riggere
Wandering Stars	Maren		Unobtainable (cut content)
The Shipwright's Plight	Zamar	Neketaka: Queen's Berth
Coming to Terms	Tawenu
Salt in the Wound	Nera Bardatto
Her Last Request	Muhai	Neketaka: Serpent's Crown
A Cordial Invitation	Automatic	Neketaka: Periki's Overlook	Arkemyr's quest arc
Velvet Glove, Brass Fist	Fassina
Sealed Fate	Degnos
Refined Arrangement	Ganor		Unobtainable (cut content)
All Aboard	Biha	Neketaka: The Gullet
Delver's Row	Prince Aruihi / Pitli / Enoi / Dereo the Lean
Iron Gut	Pietro	Dunnage: The King's Coffin
A Tidy Performance	Calandra	Dunnage: Radiant Court
Plucked Fruit	Mukūmu	Tikawara
The Lost Grimoires	Nemnok the Devourer	Drowned Barrows

Bounties

Bounties are particularly difficult combat quests that serve to provide a late game challenge - and a good source of coin. If you happen to kill a bounty target without the quest active, you can simply turn in the bounty immediately after receiving it.

Task	Given by	Start location	Notes
Bounty - Meryel the Mad	Abocco	Neketaka: The Wild Mare
Bounty - Pūrākau
Bounty - Nomu the Marauder
Bounty - Tāhae
Bounty - Biakara	Aenia	Neketaka: Queen's Berth	VTC
Bounty - Veen
Bounty - Desiwa the Shark
Bounty - Diccila	Barati	Neketaka: Kahanga Palace	Huana
Bounty - Oheiro
Bounty - Rafiq the Red Beard
Bounty - Assila Wave-Skipper	Fleet Master Wakoyo	Neketaka: The Brass Citadel	RDC
Bounty - Radulf
Bounty - Burunga
Bounty - Dhwrgas the Ascetic	Okauro	Neketaka: The Sacred Stair
Bounty - Onadere the Siren
Bounty - Ikorno
Bounty - Urnox the Rathun
Bounty - Beina	Nungata	Neketaka: Serpent's Crown
Bounty - Flamewalker Vessali
Bounty - The Steel Preacher
Bounty - Uamoru the Pretender
Bounty - Chornu	Udita	Dunnage: Lifter's Refuge	Principi
Bounty - Kuaro
Bounty - Rock-Stomper Rodul
Bounty - Lord Admiral Imp	Dessiral	Dunnage: Radiant Court
Bounty - Lady Epero
Bounty - Katrenn
Bounty - Torkar

Expansion quests

Beast of Winter

Main quests:

• An Honored Guest
• To Rise and Decline
• Death's Depthless Dominion
  • The Drowned Kingdom
  • The Endless Queries
  • The Bridge Ablaze

Side quests:

• Toasting the Dead
• The Higher-Ups
• The Last Pilgrimage

Seeker, Slayer, Survivor

Main quests:

• The Proving
• The Rite of Passage
• The Crucible
• The Champion of the Hunt
• The Hunter Hunted

Side quests:

• Potions of Plenty

Face quests:

• The Seeking Face
  • The Seeking Face's Hunt for the Adra Pearl
  • The Seeking Face's Hunt for the Fortuneteller's Ear
  • The Seeking Face's Hunt for the Hunt for the Haemneg's Handmaiden
• The Slaying Face
  • The Slaying Face's Hunt for the Luckless Coin
  • The Slaying Face's Hunt for the Titan's Heart
  • The Slaying Face's Hunt for the Hunter's Head
• The Surviving Face
  • The Surviving Face's Hunt for the Matron's Skull
  • The Surviving Face's Hunt for the Uncut Gem
  • The Surviving Face's Hunt for the Finger of the Exiled Queen

The Forgotten Sanctum

Main quests:

• Hidden Depths
• Annotated History
• The Inner Mysteries

Complementary quests:

• Wasting Minds
• A Rising Star
• Out of Eternal Horizons
• Under Observation
• A Shout in the Dark
• Root and Branch
• The Seeds of Deception

Quest level

The quest level as shown in the journal (by hovering over the the book icon under the quest title) gives the player an indication of the relative difficulty of the quest in relation to their level.

The base quest level is manually set by the game designers. Although this level doesn't actually influence any gameplay mechanics itself, it generally takes into account (and is therefore a good indicator of):

• The average level of creatures, enemies and traps encountered, in areas related to the quest. This is expressed as a location's "expected player level" (also called "recommended level"). The quest level averages out to be around the same level as the locations prominently featured.
• The difficulty of dialogue checks.

If the quest level is equal to the player's level, the difficulty of the quest will be as close to as it was originally designed, generally meaning that enemies faced will be close to the player's level, and dialogue checks will be generally passable.

Note that the quest level is adjusted with Level scaling in order to match the perceived difficulty of areas/encounters and in turn the enemies found within the quest, though the quest level itself does not affect scaling whatsoever. This should be kept in mind, as the quest pages on the wiki list the base/unscaled quest level - not one that is adjusted.

Quest experience

All quests grant a fixed and predetermined amount of experience to each party member. Each time the party completes a quest objective, a weighted portion of the total quest experience is granted. This total experience is divided (usually equally, though some objectives are weighted differently) between all objectives, as well as a final "end state" objective. So if a quest has 4 objectives, the experience is split into 5 portions.

On quest completion, no additional experience is earned (other than that of the "end state" objective), however if there are objectives that have not been completed, the party will be granted experience equal to the value of these remaining objectives. As such, the amount of objectives completed does not influence the amount of experience granted throughout the quest.

The predetermined total quest experience has two multipliers applied to it - a per quest multiplier (always 1), and a global multiplier of 1.35. In addition, the party receives a number of experience multipliers each time they receive experience - though this is not unique to quests.

Quests that do not have this "predetermined" amount instead calculate the granted XP using the quest's level and weighting - though currently there are very few quests that need to do this. For all quests that do not, there is no correlation between the quest's "XP level", "XP type" and the amount of experience gained. These values and any code that references them only exist as remnants from how experience was calculated in Pillars of Eternity.

The only quests that calculate their XP amount with their experience level and type are:

• The Final Voyage
• Bounty - Desiwa the Shark
• The Lighted Path
• The Man of Chimes

Objective experience

Upon completion of a quest objective, the exact amount of experience gained is calculated using:

• totalObjectiveWeight - The sum of the experience weights of all objectives in the quest, plus one for the end state. Most experience weights are 1, so this is commonly just the amount of objectives in the quest plus one.
• objectiveWeight - The experience weight of the completed objective in question, which is used as a multiplier for the objective experience.
• experienceAmount - The amount of experience granted by the quest. This refers to the ExperienceAmount in "global.gamedatabundle", and is shown on the wiki page as "Experience amount". Remember that this is then multiplied by a global "QuestXPMultiplier" of 1.35.

The objective experience is then:

xp = (experienceAmount / totalObjectiveWeight) * objectiveWeight

If a quest has 4 objectives with an experience weight of 1, completing any objective would grant a 1/5 of the total quest experience. Using the above formula, and a total quest experience of 1000 (including QuestXPMultiplier), each objective would grant a base 200 XP.

If one of the objectives has a higher weighting, it is granted more "portions" of objective experience, and the experience granted to other objectives is reduced to make up for the fact. Using the same example of 1000 total quest experience, and a weight of 3 for one of the objectives, the singular weighted objective would grant 428.5... XP (3 portions), and the others (and end state) would grant 142.8... XP each.

Upon quest completion, the end state XP is granted, and each party member will have earned the experienceAmount, not counting the below bonuses, which are applied on every experience gain.

Party size bonus

After this initial amount is determined, a party-size bonus is applied, which gives more experience the fewer characters there are in the party. A bonus of +25% experience is granted per missing party member under 5. The bonus is calculated with the formula: 0.25 * (5 - numPartyMembers).

Party size	Bonus XP
5	-
4	+25%
3	+50%
2	+75%
1	+100%

Player–companion adjusted experience

The amount of experience given to each party member is adjusted individually based on the difference between the player and the companion's level (this adjustment is not applied to the player). The adjustment multiplier is calculated with:

((playerLevel - companionLevel) * 0.2) + 1

For example, if the player's level is 7, and the companion's is 5, the companion will be granted an additional 40% experience. Note that the difference between levels is limited to a range of -5 to 5.

Level difference	Adjustment
0	-
±1	±20%
±2	±40%
±3	±60%
±4	±80%
±5 (and beyond)	±100%