Artifacts of the Tyrant is a Quest in Divinity: Original Sin II. In this quest, players will set forth to find the lost pieces of Tyrant's armor: arms, legs, lower body, upper body and helm. Each piece bears its own curse that is only lifted while all pieces are equipped.
Important NPCs
Artifacts of the Tyrant Objectives
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Find all five of the Artifacts of Braccus Rex
| Item | Location | Curse | Stats |
| Tyrant's Stride (Legs) |
Ancient Passage, a hidden trap door under the ground floor of Fort Joy Facing North, go up the ladder to the statue on the Western Edge. If you have Wit of 15 or above a dialogue option will appear to find the legs. |
Slowed | 20 Physical Armor 3 Magic Armor +1 Constitution +10% Earth Resistance |
| Tyrant's Helm (Helm) |
Decrepit Ruins, under the Most Dangerous When Cornered fight and behind the cursed door. | Warm | 16 Physical Armor |
| Tracks of the Tyrant (Boots) |
In the broken tower on the beach NE of Fort Joy, past the second encounter with Windego | Crippled | 15 Physical Armor 2 Magic Armor +10% Air Resistance +1 Sneaking +0.25 Movement |
| Heart of the Tyrant | Dark Cavern, in The Vault of Braccus Rex | Burning | 30 Physical Armor 4 Magic Armor +10% Fire Resistance +1 Warfare 1 Rune Slot |
| Hands of the Tyrant | Braccus Rex's Tower. You need 18 Strength to open the tomb lid containing the Artifact.
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Diseased | 15 Physical Armor 2 Magic Armor +10% Water Resistance +1 Two-Handed |
Artifacts of the Tyrant Walkthrough
All five pieces of armor are on the island of Fort Joy, Reaper's Eye, and must be found before finishing Act I.
- The quest begins by reading a book in Fort Joy
We read of the 'Artifacts of the Tyrant'. A powerful suit of armor, it must be equipped in its entirety, lest the wearer be cursed.
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Tyrant's Stride can be found in Ancient Passage, which is made accessible during the quest Withermoore's Soul Jar. On the west side the passage there is a statue, climb the ladder to reach it. Interact with the statue to get the Tyrant's Stride (You will need 15 Wits to find the item when interacting with the statue), but don't equip it just now, it's cursed.
One senses the 'Tyrant's Stride' may hinder, not help.
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Tyrant's Helm can be found at Decrepit Ruins.
For reference, look to the courtyard down the steps from the Hollow Marshes - Ruined Castle waypoint, the area in which you first help Gareth survive a Magister attack.
After a brief dialogue with the remaining Magister, one can use Bless to cleanse the Cursed lever near the corpses. There is a Source tap nearby in the room if you're in need.
There's something demonic about the 'Tyrant's Helm'.
NOTE - As the quest text hints, using the Tyrant's Helm to cast Purge one too many times will summon a demon, leading to combat. This adds the quest entry A murderous demon emerged from the Tyrant's Helm -
Tracks of the Tyrant can be found on top of the tower to the NE of Fort Joy, and SW of the large ship, along the coast just passed where you encounter Windego. You will need to be upon the adjacent cliff to teleport someone inside the tower to collect the loot within, the cliff is located at X:436, Y:280. There are lightning clouds in the tower, so it's hard not to see.
Holding the 'Tracks of the Tyrant' gives one an odd crippling sensation.
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Heart of Tyrant is in Dark Cavern, atop a brazier. You will find this when doing The Vault of Braccus Rex quest.
A scorching aura burns from 'The Heart of the Tyrant'. It may be too hot to handle.
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Hands of the Tyrant, is inside a coffin at Braccus Rex's Tower. You need 18 Strength to open it. Or use a trap disarm kit on the tomb lid and it will trigger a poison trap. The gloves will also fall out of the tomb. The tower is located at the back of The Gargoyle's Maze. Coordinates: x:589 y:678
The 'Hands of the Tyrant' have an odd pestilential aura.
- Equipping all five pieces at once will add the final quest text and close the quest.
Only when Braccus Rex's armor is complete can one wear it with ease.
Tips & Tricks
- Tyrant's Stride can only be found in the statue with 15 or more in the Wits attribute, if you don't have this, consider using:
- Peace of Mind scroll to increase wits by 4.
- Puffball + empty potion bottle to create a minor potion of wits, increasing wits by 1.
- All items have some sort of negative status effect, but they get removed when you wear complete set on one character.
- All items require 11 Strength to wear.
- The Helm provides the Purge skill which can be used to destroy The Shriekers, providing a point of Source each time. However, using the helm three times will release a demon who will attack you. Once you defeat the demon and re-equip the helm, it will instead provide the Shackles of Pain skill.
- Band of Braccus is not part of this set and has its own quest: The Cursed Ring.
AnonymousI have all 5 pieces and when I equip them to my custom character the curses lift as expected, but if I equip them to Beast the curses remain. How does a bug like that never get fixed?
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kinda lame tbh
each piece offers 2 to 3 magic armor and not too much physical
shackles of pain is a cool spell but not in return for the legendary gloves of scale-portation
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One of my characters has a wit lvl of 20 (after spell) but no unique dialog comes up on the statue. I have the whole set plus the ring, not sure what I haven't yet done. I've also done withermoores quest already. Any ideas?
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I mean its not bad, but it takes too long to get if you dont rush it, and if you first time playing or just taking your time the moment you get the whole set it would be outleveled and outused by other items.
its not bad if you rush it tho
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As a set it's not too bad. I actually used it on my figher (along with high level shield) up to level 12 and only then switched to custom pieces until you can get a full Devour Set.
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weak ,ugly and hard to get full set ! waste our times ....thanks for infomation ^^ i will no more try to get that set
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Doesnt work as of now, still get the curses with everything equipped
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While getting the Tracks of the Tyrant, use a fireball or fire grenade to clear out the electrified steam. As other people have pointed out, you can also teleport from the base of the tower as well, but you still need to use the cliff to use fire to clear out the electric steam
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The advice for gloves of the tyrant is wrong. PS4, trap disarm kit doesn't work.
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Don't add nails to the boots unless you don't mind them turning white
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There is an item called "Spear of Braccus Rex" in the game in this phase as well and it, too, is unrelated to the set.
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Instead of teleporting into the stone tower to get the strides, just teleport the items in the tower out. And you can do it from the base of the tower as well as the cliff.
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The quest doesn't seem to complete unless you have all the pieces either in your inventory or equipped. I didn't have a STR character in my party in my latest playthrough so I just sold the pieces as I found them. Not a huge deal though until you're a completionist.
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You can get the Ice dragon to kill the shriekers or use the Helm of Braccus Rex. If you use the Helm three times the Demon will spawn and attack you, but if you quickly teleport the Demon into an open space in front of an unattacked shrieker the shrieker will kill it for you and you can finish them off one at a time.
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So, the Demon from the helm spawned during an already hard fight for me, and I died... Now the helmet is gone. Can I get it back? If yes, how?
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About the Tyrant's Helm. When you wear it, after it releases a demon and not longer cursed, it gives constant Warm effect (Fire Resistance: -10% Water Resistance: +15%). Also, it has interesting description, implying that somebody might not like that you wear it. Any information about this? Interesting.
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There are two statues in the room, the pants are found at the one without the chest next to it.
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Unfortunately the negative effects are only gone if you have the whole set equipped. If you unequip even one item, the negative effects of the other parts come back. So if you're using this set, keep a backup set of items in your pack, so if you want to stop using this, you can swap out the entire set at once.
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Sell all the pieces to the fletcher from act 2 he upgrades them to level 18 when in Arx
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Tracks of the Tyrant - I stood next to the tower on the beach and just teleported the bodies and items down to me
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15 Wits worked for me for Stride, there any other confirmation on the number of uses to summon the demon from the helm? Or it changing to shackles of pain afterward?
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If you don't have enough strength or wit, just buff your character with courage.
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Quite honestly the whole set is not worth it, by the time i finished the quest I already got the gear ready, although, you should probably take the helm, There is a special interraction when you talk to gareth in his camp that alows you to go through the shreekers (dunno how it's spelled)
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The set is okay, the helm is great. After purge is used a few times the skill changes to shackles of pain.
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Tyrants stride falls through the floor for me and I can't get it. Reloaded the game quite a few times.
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Any way to get one of those item back after you LOST it? Are there ITEM ID's ? :(
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I interacted with the statue with 16 wit (15 plus an item boost) and I didn't get any item. There was a chest next to the statue but all it had was a bow. I was not currently on the withermore quest I came back later.
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If you're running 3 or less characters you can always recruit a 4th and give them the Pet Pal talent, go talk to the pig then dismiss them afterwards. I was running just two characters for Lone Wolf and thought I couldn't complete this.
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interesting fact, if you wear the set and go to respec mirror in act 2, the unlocked talents become permanent even after removing the set, and you can redistribute the points. and you can repeat this with every character.
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Trap Disarm Kits do NOT work on the tomb in Braces Rex's Tower on PC.
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why bother? The items are worthless, at the point when you complete the set you have far more superior gear anyway.
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Strides requires a Wit of either 14 or 15 to activate the statue.
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I feel obligated to mention that after you complete the set, you can't wear any of the set seperate or else all the curses will come back
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I activated the monolith but didn't get the helm, did I do something wrong?
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Tyranns Helm become you when you use the corpse eat skill on alexander you fight his demon!
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If you have trouble opening the tomb:
just brick one of the followers you do not use by giving them high strength, and then buffing. Be sure they will need the points invested at some point though, so you can save the build at higher levels. 15 strength, plus clear mind, and a minor +1 strength potion should do.
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how much strength do you need to open that coffin lid? i have 18 and still to heavy.
anyone know where i can get a hold of a strength potion?
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18 Strength got it open for me. Remember to cast peace of Mind for the extra +2 Strength if you need it
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In case you can't find the Tyrant's Stride, search for another statue it that cave
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I sold the first piece of the set by mistake. Any chance of getting it back without loading a previous save?
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18 strength is needed for opening the sarcophagus that has the armour.
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After using the Purge skill granted by the helm 3 times, a deamon will show up. Kill him and the purge skill will be replaced by Shackles Of Pain.
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Anyone know how to get the legs? The statue in the Ancient Passage does nothing when talking to it. Even when pumping up to 15 wit, a chest appeared but it just had gold in it.
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Update, I decided to collect the pieces I was missing and it's not cursed once everything is equipped. I thought maybe you had to also equip Braccas's ring, but that's not needed either. Did you get the Journal update that the quest line was closed?
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once I retrieved all parts of this set, it said that the curse was lifted but the individual pieces are still cursed :(
encourage skill from your companions + stat bonus on various items can help with many checks. also attribute potions
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