A Hunger From Beyond is a Quest in Divinity: Original Sin II.
Important NPCs
- Devourer
A Hunger From Beyond Objectives
- Collect the full set of Devourer Armor
- Bow to the Devourer or kill him and free the imprisoned spirits to unlock the full potential of the armor.
A Hunger From Beyond Walkthrough
This quest is picked up near the beginning of the game, however it lasts throughout most of the rest of the game. The final version of the set upon completion of the quest in Act 4 is level 20, so newer players should bear in mind that the quest will continue to remain active when moving to a new act.
Summary:
- Claws (Gloves): Fort Joy, Tower of Braccus Rex
- Steps (Boots): Reaper’s Isle, Stonegarden
- Eminence (Leggings): Nameless Isle, [in a cave near] Altar of Zorl-Stissa
- Maw (Helmet): Arx, Vault
- Heart (Chest Armour): Arx, Consulate
NOTE: Each time you collect a piece of the armour, a new companion is added to the group of spirits who appear when you cast spirit vision (you can stop seeing these by storing the relevant armour set). A ‘new’ spirit will have an attached ‘place of longing’ which will appear in the quest log and there will be a glowing interactive object at the location. Upon interaction, you’ll enter chat with the Devourer and experience a fiery vision, and you have the option to resist it with Persuasion. For every vision you do NOT resist, your main character will be hit by 1 round of Shackles of Pain during the final encounter of this quest.
- Claws of the Devourer (Fort Joy):
In front of the Gargoyle's Maze, you can find a note on a dead adventurer. Read it to acquire this quest.
Pass The Gargoyle's Maze, and enter the tower. In a cursed chest, you can find The Devourer's Claws. You also learn more clues from the Voice of Flame.
Inside Orivand's Chambers, you find another set of glowing books on a table. Interact with it to learn more from Voice of flame. There is an option to obtain the flame essence.
- Steps of the Devourer (Reaper's Coast):
Head to Stonegarden, read Ryker's Visitor Lodge and the quest will update the location of the dead shady digger. 
Head to the eternal flame dragons in the graveyard and retrieve the boots from the body of the digger. When you equip those boots, a dwarf spirit will appear (spirit vision). Talking to him leads to another place of longing, inside the Blackpits Cavern.
- Eminence of the Devourer (Nameless Isle):
The Leggings of this armor set can be found following red arrows to a cave, near the Altar To Zorl-Stissa (around X180, Y685). Offer (PC: drag&drop, Console: hold rune in hand and then open head) a flame rune to the dragon skull inside to speak to Voice of Flame. You can loot one nearby or craft it. The vision will start immediately. After the vision you will find the Leggings in your inventory. Attached to this piece of armor is a fanatic lizard spirit, talk to him and the quest will reveal another place of longing.
The place can be found deep inside the lava fields, at the south-eastern end of the map (follow the quest marker). During the conversation with the voice of flame at the new place, if you guess his nature correctly, he will reward you with a skillbook.
- Maw of the Devourer (Arx):
The Helm is in the blue cupboard in Vault of Linder Kemm. You can learn the combination for the lock from a note behind the painting "Portrait of the Outlaw Empress" (X:500 Y:985) hanging on the wall to the left side of the locked door behind the paintings "Passion of Lucian". (The combination is 232113).
You can talk to the new spirit of the armor piece but it is not yet required.
Head to the Toymaker's shop at X: 274, Y: 297. On the table to the left you will see spirits who will instruct you to go to the Lizard Consulate.
- Heart of the Devourer (Arx)
The body is near the garden of the Lizard Consulate. Either make it all the way to the balcony at X: 180, Y: 408 and teleport, fly, or find the hidden ladder to the beach below, or use the wines from the gardens of the consulate. Inside a sack will be the Devourer's Heart body armor.
With all five pieces gathered, interact with the spirits again. The places of longing for the last two pieces are in the garden of the Consulate and the Toyseller's shop.
The Dreamer Lizard will then transport you to an arena where you must choose to side with the Devourer or the Dreamer. If siding with the Devourer, the Dreamer will die and the Devourer Armor set will be upgraded with the Onslaught Skill; the wearer will also be healed when they kill marked targets in battle.
If you choose to side with the Dreamer, they will chain down the Devourer so that the dragon cannot move or dodge. Multiple enemies and allies will be around the room. Clear out the minions first as quickly as possible. After a round or two, the Dreamer will be knocked out and the Devourer will start attacking. It has a huge range and is healed by poison. Keep your distance and use as many strong focused attacks to eventually take it down.
If you side with the Dreamer you will be able to loot the area for additional items. Plus, your Devourer Armor set will get the previously mentioned upgrades.
Tips & Tricks
- The spirits are tied to their piece of armor. If you find the spirits constant presence annoying, stashing the set pieces on the Lady Vengeance (AFTER finding the associated place of longing) can reduce visual clutter until reaching Arx and laying them to rest.
- Set Bonus: The Devourer's strength courses through this armour, boosting its level to 20. The wearer may channel a violent frenzy that feeds off the life force of enemies.
- Devourer Armour Set stats & description: here
- IMPORTANT: Any runes ans upgrades added to the armour set, such as artefacts and nails, will be lost once it has been activated.
- If the wearer sides with the Devourer, they will be unable to unequip the armour set.
- Only your main character will talk to the Devourer. You are free to position the rest of the party and the two obvious enemies (fanatics) using Nether Swap or Teleport. Two more enemies will spawn behind the dreamer.
- DE: Even more effective than setting up the fanatics, is to devour them before entering the dream realm. The fanatics will never apear and you will never have to fight them. If you do this through dialogue, the other spirits will protest. This does not seem to affect rewards.
- If you equip the entire Devourer armor immediately after getting all 5 pieces, then devour the source of the Dreamer, you get the upgraded armor with no other hassle.
AnonymousI encountered a bug. I consumed the fanatic and the craftmistress before facing the devourer, but when I faced him, the other three spirits didn't appear. Their dialogue still happens and the devourer is still shackled, but after defeating it the spirits aren't there and I get softlocked because I can't leave.
- Anonymous
I only found 2 out of the 5 pieces and still got the encounter with the Dreamer and Devourer
- Anonymous
i have a bug in fort joy, no corpse with the book in front of the maze, cursed chest is also missing. No claw for me i guess...
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i didnt pick the boots when i passed there and now i dont have the complete set, i gonna kms
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"if the wearer sides with the devourer, they will be unable to wear the Armour set"
This is 100 % (NOT TRUE)
i just tested this out myself. if you side with the dragon, you still get all of the bonuses of the armor and everything, at least in DE edition.
- Anonymous
I don't think the part about successfully resisting the flashbacks to avoid shackles of pain is accurate anymore. I successfully "persuaded" resisted each time, but my main was still hit with 3 rounds of shackles of pain.
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Why no one mention about the infinite EXP when you fight Devourer? After you kill all 4 mobs and Devourer released from shackle, it will spawn 2 "Rend Reality" ball when attacking you. The balls will spawn 2 mages worth 53.900 EXP (IIRC) each if you wait one turn. So, for each 2 turns, you get 107.800 EXP.
You can do this infinitively as long Devourer still alive and attempted to attack you (so doesn't work if you invis). Use uncanny evasion & evasive aura one after another then delay turn and let the ball spawn (the spawn can stack). They won't aggro immediately until you attack them which is nice. So not recommended to use AoE spell from mage like fire/poison/electrified surface + it's also damaged the devourer. Use source vampirism to get infinite SP and repeat. Equip devourer legging to stack HP. Both Devourer and the 2 mages doesn't have any kind of CC, just high physical & magical damage so you don't really care about armor.
I do this solo in early lv 19 up to lv 20 (more than 1.5 million EXP, devourer got killed because I have retribution LOL). Well, I know it's act 4 and EXP doesn't really matter, but nice to know you can do this. Playing on latest DE.
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Don't be an idiot like me and forget to grab the helmet before accepting the Dreamer's assistance and fighting/aiding the Devourer. If you grab the helmet after the set is upgraded, it doesn't count as part of the set and you will have a perpetual, incomplete 4/5 for the set bonus.
What an annoying waste of time.
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Don't equip any runes in the devourer chest plate before the upgrade to lvl 20 as it will be lost. If you want to equip runes just make sure you remove them before leaving the dream
- Anonymous
having a bug with this armor set where when i enter combat, it doesn't give me a target but still gives me the "Hunger". i still take damage when the buff expires because there's no target to kill to refresh it
- Anonymous
Had a bug where i died while i had Living on the Edge on. Almost lost my solo LW Honor run. Thankfully i had a Glowing Idol of Rebirth which i stole from the spider. The fight ended and i could just fast travel out. Safe to say i never went back after that lol.
I looked over the clip when i died and it makes no sense. Died the same round i casted it.
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Oh yeah remember fory joy from 50 hours ago? you had to get the gaunlets from there and now you literally can't in any way, Such a massive **** you to the player.
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if you return to fort joy after get tje gloves (the room next to Orivand) you can get a fire essence and 25 exp from a bool.
- Anonymous
Strange issue, I have sided with the Dreamer but I still am unable to equip the armor.
- Anonymous
If you put on the devourer set on an undead character be carefull when you decide to enter the devourer realm, make sure you're not in a crowded place, I started it in the main place in arm, and the moment I went back everyone around me attacked me as if I was naked even if I had the full set on me, forcing me to reload to start the fight in a more secluded place, so annoying, so frustrating, so dos2
- Anonymous
I didn't get to test with different armors like finesse and intelligence, but...
With my main character wearing various strength armor and speaking to the dreamer after siding with her and killing the devourer...She upgraded all my armor pieces to level 20 (not including belt). I was level 21 at the time and my knight of duna helm and vrogrir boots got upgraded to level 20, in addition to the 3 devourer set items I had on. PRETTY COOL!
- Anonymous
The code to the blue cabinet for the helm was different from what the paper said for me. Mine was 313221
- Anonymous
2 points in necromancy makes this fight a cake walk. Suggest you DO NOT RESIST the visions. Round 1 cast Living on the Edge on the character that is shackled to the Devourer then unload. As soon as physical armor is cleared cast Shackles of Pain on the Devourer and create a feed back loop. All damage done to the Devourer will hit your shackled character and bounce back to hit the Devourer again, effectively doubling all sources of damage. Mopped up in 2 turns.
- Anonymous
got a bug in DE where i was able to fight the devourer dragon without ever getting the helmet. Now that ive gotten the helmet, it is stuck at level 19.
- Anonymous
It was certainly a difficult fight. The key was positioning.
Spread your party members once the conversation initiates while leaving tank below.
Use water damage which goes well.
Managed to finish it on the last hit
- Anonymous
got a glitch where i start battle, it says a target is marked. if i don't kill them in 3 turns, i'll take damage. no one's marked. bug after bug. ridiculous.
- Anonymous
Easiest way to kill him when not playing as undead, respec to hydro and 2 in Summoning - get the Five Star Diner perk. Use Soulmate as soon as the fight starts and then chug all the Giant Potions you can, i only need 3 to kill him in the first turn
- Anonymous
Anyone else get an odd big where the dreamer was mad for no reason (-45 attitude) and had to be gifted items till she was happy again. Had so much money but that time I just gave her like 10000 and got her to 100 attitude and she was willing to talk to me normally afterwards.
- Anonymous
Ez way to cheese the fight: If you wanna kill the devourer, use a heavy hitter AOE attack, like hailstorm. You'll be able to strip his magic armor that way. Once stripped just enchant him, I used a hunter with enchanting arrows. The devourer will kill everyone and you can just kill him with no bigger problem. Have in mind that enchant spells on him will only last 1 turn because of his talents.
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Tip: dont put any runes on devourer's armor before fighting dragon because they will parish after upgrade.
- Anonymous
It is hilarious that you can complete the armor either by fighting the hardest boss in the game or by draining a spirit.
- Anonymous
if you don't see the helm in the cabinet it is not a glitch. You have to enter the correct code first.
- Anonymous
Sir Lora has been following me around in spirit form since he got mysteriously murdered in the Nameless Isle, and is just fine after I defeated the Devourer, but somehow when the spirit of the Dreamer teleports us back to the material plane, Sir Lora disappears and doesn't appear when I use spirit vision... I think he got trapped in the dead dragon realm.
- Anonymous
You completely skipped over the piece in the Black Pits. Is there a piece there or not? there is no clarification.
- Anonymous
I lost the Devourer's Claws somewhere in Act 1 (maybe i sold them by mistake or a bug idk). Is there any possible was to recover them beside to load an old save?
I am currently in Act 4
- Anonymous
If you struggle with the fight, considers bringing barrels of deathfog to kill the adds before the fight even begins. You can get some near the place you fight Loic, near the Lady Vengeance.
- Anonymous
Your answer is.. chicken claw. The best scroll in DOS2. That weird little scroll that you keep hoarding. Nuke his phys armor and chicken claw him to death. Playing on tactician, that bastard have 19k phys armor and 19k health.
- Anonymous
there is not guard on the front and i cant start quest. the claws are also missing what do i do?
- Anonymous
PS4 Definite Ed. The code 232113 is correct, but it's a bit tricky since the X highlight of the buttons shows wrong order. Switch with R1 to right button and move to see the last one highlight, and it will work. Just did it myself and got the helmet.
- Anonymous
I have done each part and am on Nameless Isle now. I fed the Dragon a flame rune and got the leg piece. Now there's a red flag marker to the south in the lava fields. But when I get there I don't see any orange spirited objects, like there was in Black Pits mine. I can cast Spirit Vision and interact with the Fanatic but that's it. After talking to him the quest marker remains there. Every YouTube video I've watched shows those orange objects in the area but I don't see them. Am I missing something? How do I clear the quest objective?
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On the wall behind the portraits (first, second, third passion of Lucian) there is a portrait of the Outlaw Empress (left to the door opened by the painting). If you remove this portrait, behind it you find a sheet of paper with the order of the buttons for devourers helm.
- Anonymous
I managed to stack Flaming Crescendo (around 10 times then got bored) before the fight even started and without them triggering. I started the fight and as soon as the turn of the Devourer came, he got OHKO'ed (i'm lvl 19)
- Anonymous
THE CODE THEY GIVE FOR THE HELMET IS WRONG. Through trial and error I have figured out that the real code is random and you just have to keep pressing the buttons that don’t petrify you. Eg. 1, 2, 3 petrified. Restart. 1, 2, 1, 2 petrified. Restart. You will have more luck with this.
- Anonymous
I discovered a glitch with the leggings. If you equip them and then remove all points of warfare on that character with the mirror, you will get one extra talent point. You can repeatedly add and remove warfare for infinite talent points.
- Anonymous
I accidentally skipped the place of longing for the legging's spirit, am I still able to complete the set?
- Anonymous
İn nameless İf you offer wrong rune you fight against undead lizard fanatic doesn't give any XP but corpse have same money and you can see your wrong rune on floor.
- Anonymous
I play on the xbox 1 version, and there is no drag and drop option for placing the flame rune. I’m trying to put in a large flame rune into the dragons mouth and I can’t do anything... what am I doing wrong?
- Anonymous
I didn't get the claws in fort joy, is the quest is dead for me?
- Anonymous
If you dont have the helmet. You cant see the spirits in the toymaker shop.
- Anonymous
"Head to the Toymaker's shop at X: 274, Y: 297 and inspect the statues on the table to the left."
What is this referring to? I don't see anything like this in the toymaker's shop.
In case you're as confused as I am about what happens with the devourer's armor in terms of it leveling or how the set bonus works, it only leveled to 20 for me after I defeated the Devourer and after I told the Dreamer I wished to leave the dreamscape (in DE version). However, after doing that, I noticed after my equipped level 18 breastplate "The Devourer's heart" which had 3 equipped runes on it, disappeared all the runes after it was upgraded. Let that be a warning to anyone who is currently used it on a STR character that you can and should remove the runes before you talk to the Dreamer and level the dreamscape area. Also I resisted and successfully passed the check on all of the visions but was still hit with 3 shackles of pain on my character. Not sure what I missed in that regard.
- Anonymous
it is really easy if u just use restoration scrolls on it
like it took 5 scrolls to get him from full hp (i got rid of his armor beforehand) to 0
- Anonymous
i got the piece in the lizard consulatae first and interacted with the objects at x:185 y:414, and then afterwords got the helm at kemms vault, and now i cant get to the arena — do i have to go back?
- Anonymous
Use soul mate and down healing potions which kills the Devourer who is dead. It took about 8 giant potions but he was defeated.!
- Anonymous
nothing happens in nameless isle when i put rune in mouth of dragon except i have to fight some undead lizzards — but it doesnt give me a piece of armor, nor is there anyone to talk to (spirit or non spirit)
- Anonymous
I only have the helmet to get and for some reason the code for the cabinet is not being accepted. I have retrievrd the code from behind the painting ....help !
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In DE when i got into the fight i was partially weafing the set... after the fight everything leveled to 20... but all the inserted gems were lost... and yes there were 4x Giant Master Rune of Power which are nowhere to be found
- Anonymous
The body with the book that starts the quest does not spawn for me. Without the quest, the chest in the tower also does not spawn, therefore no gloves.
- Anonymous
Best armour set in the game for two reasons:
1 Has very high physical values, decent magical values, great immunities and a free talent.
2 Killing targets with devourer's mark heals you and resets all cool downs like skin graft but doesn't cost any AP. This is really good but there is an issue. The cool down reset is actually better than skin graft since it affects abilities that can only be used once per battle like Apotheosis and Fane's timewarp. Which means this is completely busted as you can have infinite source and turns (with Fane) provided you can keep killing your targets quickly. You can also drink the AP reduction tea to make Apotheosis 1AP!
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After killing the devourer the waypoints stopped working. I can't get back to the boat or fast travel,
Is this a bug ?
Should I redo the fight ?
At every place of longing, you have two choices: resist the vision or accept it and receive a reward. For the number of times you accept the vision, you will receive the same number of shackle of pain's turns if you choose to fight the Devourer at the end.
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Where is the dead human? I'm at the place in the picture and there's no one there.
- Anonymous
After you've collected all 5 pieces, go to the Lizard Consulate garden and interact with the glowing objects at x:185 y:414. Cast spirit vision and talk to the dreamer to advance to the next portion of the quest.
- Anonymous
Please ban whoever wrote this page, worst explanation I've ever seen
- Anonymous
In definitive ed, if you dont wear the full set and you accept the dragon offer, all your equipement will be upgraded to lv 20 Wich upgrade their stats. ( in my playtrough i didnt even got the gloves in act 1 and i got this result) I dont know if it is a bug...
- Anonymous
Someone stole my Helm.. the Cage was already open and the helm was gone after I skipped the area for some time when I backtracked.. wtf happend to my HELM! >:C
- Anonymous
Terrible explanation of the leg armor. Says there's a clue of the armor. Not where the armor actually is.
- Anonymous
Okay, so I have looked this guide over about a dozen times and it only tells you where to find 4 of the 5 pieces and you have to read it with a fning magnifying glass to pick out where the pieces are mentioned. Ever hear of bullet points?
- Anonymous
If you get stuck here, disable the Organized Containers mod (or similar mods) if you have them installed. It screws with how the game recognizes flame runes.
I suggest pressing the "empty bags" book, saving, disabling the mod, doing this quest, saving, enabling the mod, getting your bags back, then pressing the "auto-bag" book.
- Anonymous
The cave in which the leg piece is found is actually at 181, 687. Open/loot the dragon head, then place the rune from your inventory into the head's inventory.
- Anonymous
I equipped the armor with runes and went into the last fight. After I left, the armor upgraded, but all the runes are just gone. Super annoying.
- Anonymous
In the final fight with the Devourer, engage him in conversation with 1 companion then control the rest and place them on high ground. Teleport the companion in conversation out of line of sight and the conversation will break but the Devourer won't aggro yet. You can then hit him a few times before the battle starts and when it does there were fewer enemy npcs for me. He also was not chained but still acted as if he was for the first 3 turns, only casting his bone prison spell (which can be destroyed btw)
- Anonymous
i missed the gloves in braccus tower, is there a way to get it later?
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A question about the Devourer armor healing ability. If you are an undead, do you take damage instead?
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For me you needed to get the helm first then the chest because the spirits wouldn't appear until I got it.
- Anonymous
To get the chest you need to go to Kemm's gardens and unlock the hatch by finding the hidden lever by the hand water pump by the waypoint. Once inside you need to deal with the patrols one way or another then head left and go through a hidden door. Once inside, there will be a cabinet with 3 buttons. The order is 2 3 2 1 1 3. It will appear inside the cabinet.
- Anonymous
When going for the books in orrivands chamber it reveals that the boots are in the house not the gravediggers body
- Anonymous
for some reason the gloves never got the "devourer's slumber" bit attached to it nor did it lv up to level 20 (did it myself manually with diamond dust), now even when wearing the full set it gives no benefits.
- Anonymous
can I get all the set if I missed the Devourers Claws and book on fort Joy? (i missed the quest acquiring basically)
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I just finished this quest line, got the entire armor set, worn, and finished the quest line in the hall of echoes. Everything upgraded to level 20 except the gloves.
- Anonymous
the boots in that location is the place they are been looking there
So here's some crazy stuff...
1 Make sure you have at least 1 Warfare base, b4 equipment.
2 Equip devourer legs.
3 Go into respec mirror.
4. Lower Warfare the lowest possible. Leave/save.
5. Go into mirror and raise it again.
6 Go into mirror lower it.
7. Raise it.
Lower it.
Raise it.
Always Lower to minimum.
Enjoy unlimited talent points without a headache. It's easy n I stumbled on it by accident. Devourer legs also give deathleech permanent for some reason I dunno how I have it on ranger too.
Oh yeah to get picture of health just save a point until after u unequip devourer legs again.
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