Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire endings defined: learn how to get all endings

Main ending

So you’ve adopted the traditional god Eothas in his large luminous adra kind all the best way to the traditional metropolis of Ukaizo and discovered of his plan: to destroy the good machine which controls the Wheel by which mortal souls are born and reincarnated. From right here, you’ve bought a number of potential endings, solely certainly one of them with any cheer to it.

Trigger: Try to combat Eothas

Result: Instantly killed, Eora stays in chaos

This was solely going to go a method. If you attempt to combat an enormous god whose eyelids open additional than your standing top, you get bodied. Eothas takes no pleasure in utilizing his huge energy to extinguish your soul and take in it into his personal kind, however in case you push him he’ll do it nonetheless. In the closing sequence, the narrator paints an image of your life in stasis inside Eothas, and it’s not nice:

‘You dimly perceive a world in chaos, souls hanging in the balance. You recall there was something you were supposed to do, but it feels as though you’ve been locked in a cage and dropped into the ocean. You sink and neglect, solely to recollect once more.’

Trigger: Convince Eothas to destroy Eora

Result: Eothas destroys Eora

This one may sound as simple as it’s nihilistic, however it truly performs out in a bit extra convoluted vogue. By urging Eothas to wipe out all life all through the world of Eora throughout your ultimate confrontation, you don’t persuade him immediately. He goes forward along with his plan to destroy the wheel unabated. But, later, your phrases lay heavy on his thoughts. He can’t shake them, and, ultimately, he goes forward and destroys all life. All of it. Gone. Dead:

‘Grain withers on the stalk. Cattle choke on dust. Nations starve too quickly to make war. And what dies does not come back.’

Trigger: Convince Eothas to assist mortals

Result: Eothas disperses his essence the world over, humanity rebuilds

This is the ‘good’ ending to the principle questline, and as a way to obtain it you actually simply need to keep away from the 2 triggers above. Eothas goes forward along with his plan and destroys the Wheel, releasing humanity of the lie of the Gods by ridding them of their energy. They had been, in spite of everything, simply people who bought a bit large for his or her boots, utilizing Animancy to wield complete societal management for aeons (aspect be aware: this was central to Pillars I’s plot, as Thaos and the Leaden Key had been working to protect this lie and preserve trendy animancers from discovering the reality).

How life and demise works after the Wheel’s destruction is left ambiguous, however it’s clear that individuals had been born earlier than it, and someway life continues after it. Being a fairly benevolent being, Eothas is receptive to your plea to assist humanity, and so disperses the gajillion souls he’s being carrying round in that big luminous adra and sends all that information out to centres of studying and academia the world over. In the aftermath of his actions, wizards and students and suchlike make all form of breakthroughs that assist the folks of Eora to know the world round them that bit higher. D’aww.

Eothas additionally frees you from the burden of being The Palid Knight’s little helper, and along with your advisal fingers over stewardship of the realm to Berath, god of doorways and cycles. The world stabilises beneath that stewardship, but additionally will get fairly predictable. Fewer highs, fewer lows.

Note: there’s, so far as anybody is aware of thus far, no strategy to dissuade Eothas from destroying the wheel.

‘Secret’ ending

We’re together with this one within the curiosity of being thorough, however to our minds it doesn’t really feel like a lot of a secret ending. It occurs 5 minutes into the sport, for starters. Nevertheless, individuals are calling this an ending on the market on the web so let’s describe the phrases.

Trigger: Tell Berath you need to return to the wheel

Result: Game ends earlier than you even create a personality

There. Happy now? In the opening jiffy you’re known as to a slightly formal dialog with The Pallid Knight, who requests that you just re-enter the mortal realm to do their bidding and discover out why Eothas has been operating amok down there. Most gamers will recognise this as the start of the sport, however a choose few may even realize it as the top: in case you reject this request and demand on being returned to the wheel, the sport obliges and abruptly ends:

‘Your thoughts, your memories, even your identity as a Watcher, fade like a dream.’

Fate of the Deadfire

Here’s the place it will get tough. The ending to the principle questline looks as if sunshine and rainbows till the narrator begins moving into the nitty gritty of what occurs within the map’s varied areas after Eothas’ actions. From what gamers have ascertained thus far, there’s at all times a wisp of darkness to every conclusion.

Trigger: Reach Ukaizo unassisted

Result: Minimise Eothas’s harm, Deadfire stays conflicted

By reaching the traditional metropolis with out the assistance of a specific faction, you’ve averted what might need been a a lot greater catastrophe in many individuals’s minds. Obsidian don’t lay the physique rely stats out for you, however that’s definitely the inference. However, this has some sudden knock-on results for the Deadfire archipelago.

With all eyes now on Ukaizo, Neketaka falls into disrepair, and the Deadfire Trading Company begin getting fairly cavalier about their adra mining, which spells dangerous information for the Rauataians and Huana, who’re too busy scrapping for Ukaizo to cease them pillaging their present lands. It’s a little bit of a multitude – simply because it was if you arrived.

The inference of this ending is that aligning with a specific faction earlier than reaching Ukaizo will lead to that faction popping out extra favourably than the others afterwards, however we’ve but to check this out to verify it.

Trigger: Maia’s covert op accomplished, no faction controls Port Maje

Result: War between the Vailians and Huana on the island

A darkish and violent ending for Port Maje could be achieved in case you let part-member Maia full her spying gig, and end the sport with no single faction accountable for the island. With Governor Clario and Storm Speaker Ikawha each taken out, the Vailians and Huana activate one another. The island turns into a war-torn place.

Trigger: Maia’s covert op prevented

Result: Peace and prosperity on Port Maje

If you cease Maia from fulfilling her job and as an alternative encourage dialogue between Clario and Ikawha, the 2 will govern the island in concord. Up to you, large shot.

Trigger: You didn’t go to/full Splintered Reef

Result: Ships often go lacking in that space, rumours of Fampyrs flow into

Skip the Splintered Reef totally and its inhabitants will proceed to function nefariously, luring in vessels to their doom as a way to lengthen their already unnatural lifespans. Bummer.

Party members

The many permutations of every get together member’s private quests, romances, and relationship with the participant are nonetheless being unearthed by the Pillars II group, however we do know a number of particulars already. Let’s begin with that previous softie Eder.

Trigger: Convince Eder the gods aren’t value it, save Bearn and dissuade him from the Lighted Path

Result: Eder returns to Bearn and raises him as his uncle

One of a number of doable conclusions to Eder’s story is that after Eothas has his approach with the wheel, he seeks out his previous flame’s son Bearn and teaches him how the gods had been all only a foolish phantasm designed to manage trustworthy working people. Bearn takes the message to coronary heart, and beneath Eder’s tutelage grows as much as be a high quality younger lad who’d make his mom proud.

If you don’t handle to discourage Bearn from following the Lighted Path, this ending adjustments into one thing extra melancholy: Eder returns to seek out him indignant that he refused to assist Eothas and disappears for Hasongo quickly after.

Several different ending states are doable for Eder, however their triggers aren’t clear but. He might return to Dyrwood and preach Eothas’ virtues, or return disillusioned and unfold atheist sentiment. It’s additionally doable for him to finish up in a relationship with Xoti, to turn into nice pals together with her, or to rebut her advances till their relationship turns into frosty.

Trigger: Xoti is in a relationship with the participant

Result: The two of you proceed a protracted distance relationship

As for Xoti, in case you finish the sport on amorous phrases together with her she’ll proceed to write down to you day-after-day telling you about how a lot she misses you. Nice of her. If the 2 of you probably did provoke a fling however you later broke up together with her, you’ll as an alternative get a message about her not taking it so effectively, and having to slam the door to your cabin in her face. You heartbreaking jerk. Xoti can even find yourself with Maia or Eder, or as their ex. Complicated stuff, love onboard an adventurer’s ship with a bunch of single people.