Keep Calm and Carrion is a Quest in Divinity: Original Sin II. In Fort Joy, the Godwoken learns of a powerful set of armour based on dwarven rituals. Later, the Godwoken discovers an ancient altar in the mountains west of Driftwood. The Godwoken learns about a way to craft a set of powerful set of Armour known as the Vulture Armour Set, which requires feathers from an entity called Duna's Undertaker. Using rituals discovered throughout the region, the Godwoken can retrieve these feathers and craft the Vulture Armour Set.
The Vulture Armour set is an excellent set of armour for ranged attackers using Finesse skills.
Important NPCs
- Duna's Undertaker
Keep Calm and Carrion Objectives
- Read the book on Dwarven customs in Act 1
- (Optional) Read the book on Dwarven customs in Act 2 (located in the Witch's House)
- Summon Duna's Undertaker - TPK first round at level 11. Duna will close circuit any low level party with high Initiative and do a total party kill.
- Suggested level for completion is minimum 14 if you complete Obj. 2; 15 if not.
- Peaceful solution (described in book about dwarven customs in witches hut) is available with Beast regardless of Level so you get a lvl 14 Armour set with Level 9-10 which is OP, If you read all books Lvl 14, otherwise Lvl 15
Keep Calm and Carrion Walkthrough
Fort Joy
In Orivand's Chambers, Fort Joy. You can find a book called Dwarven Customs & Traditions, it contains all recipes of Vulture Armour and a recipe called Source-infused meat (Muttom, any earth essence, source orb).
Reaper's Coast
The second page, Dwarven Customs & Traditions (Excerpt) can be found in the Witch's house (X:365 Y:227) north of Driftwood next to the Witch's Eye needed for quest Treated Like Cattle.
Summon Duna's Undertaker
You can do this regardless of level or origin character, as long as you have the excerpt from the witches hut. Source-Infused Meat needs to be crafted as an offering to summon the Undertaker.
Required crafting items:
Tip: If you lack the ingredients for Source-Infused Meat, you can buy mutton from Trader Thun, both earth essence and a source orb can be found in Meister Siva's basement during Powerful Awakening, and you can acquire some more source orbs from quest Counting your Chickens or in Mordus' basement located under his house in Driftwood when first starting A Taste of Freedom.
The altar to summon is located south west of Driftwood. (around X:217, Y:28). A page about the altar's location is under Mordus' house, and reading it will mark the map.
Placing Source-Infused Meat on that altar will summon Duna's Undertaker with the status effect Grounded (Immunity to being teleported) for 1 turn, and immediately start a dialog between the character who placed the offering. During the dialog the Undertaker is immune to any kind of attack even though the stats page does not state so.
Appease or Combat
Appeasement
Appeasing the Undertaker will grant you 5 Blessed Vulture Feathers, and she will immediately vanish not providing any opportunity to attack after providing the gift.
- *Tell the creature that you are here to receive its blessing.*
- *Bow with your arms outstretched.*
- *Quietly request its blessing.*
- *Say that you intend to save the souls of the fallen.*
Combat
Failure to appease the Undertaker results with immediate combat. Combat starts with Decomposing (Undead) Dwarves spawning and the Undertaker, usually, moving to an advantageous spot to cast Superconductor if there is more than one target. The Duna's Undertaker is level 15 with an initiative of 51. Once the Duna's Undertaker, and her undead minions are defeated you will to get the Cursed Vulture Feathers. You need to Bless these feathers before crafting the Vulture Armour. (1 blessed feather + any leather part armour (finesse based))
If choosing to fight Duna's Undertaker and the Decomposing Dwarves, there are a few precautions that would be wise to take:
- Duna's Undertaker and her minions have many powerful lightning based abilities, so using Air Resistance Potions will help mitigate damage.
- The Teleportation spell is very effective here - the raised sections of the arena are extremely close to the beach just west of Driftwood. Having a caster stand on the scaffolding and use Teleportation spells and scrolls on Duna's Undertaker and her minions can give valuable breathing room. Also, while it is still possible to use movement abilities to get back up into the arena, it's much more difficult, and sometimes Duna may get stuck on the beach.
- Spells and scrolls of Peace of Mind, First Aid and other methods of removing Blindness are handy. Duna's Undertaker has an ability called Peck Eyes which deals large Air damage and inflicts blindness. Her minions often use Blinding Radiance also.
- The entire combat arena has a water surface, adding to the difficulty of the encounter. A way of dealing with water - such as freezing the water into ice and using boots with immune to slipping traits (craftable with any boots + nails), having a method of hovering such as the Spread Your Wings spell, or a method of Stun immunity such as on the Armour of the Eternals can be useful.
- Duna has no points in Perseverance, meaning that once her physical armour has been destroyed, she can be chain knocked-down, petrified, etc without dealing with constant armor replenishment.
Vulture Armour
The Vulture Armour itself can then be created by combining the non-cursed feathers (try dropping them on the ground then targeting them with the Bless ability) with any Finesse-based gear. Among other features, the full set offers some unique perks:
- Permanent flight (hovering and access to jump as if using the Spread Your Wings spell) (The effective range of the jump is 17m instead of 13 due to Farsight)
- Permanent Farsight (+4m range on ranged attacks and abilities)
- Permanent Perforation (all physical attacks deal extra damage that bypasses physical armour, scales with level)
- Grants access to the Vulture's Prayer innate skill (2AP skill to explode a corpse for healing and 15% damage buff)
- Grants access to the Dust Blast innate skill (1 source + 3 AP skill to deal earth damage and Blind enemies in a 13m (17 due to Farsight) range)
- Immunity to Blinding
- Vulture Armour Set stats & description: here
Tips & Tricks
- Appeasing the Undertaker is considered the best route of action allowing you to complete the quest at a low level. Giving you the means to craft the Vulture Armour set at a very early stage in Act 2. If you have a Ranger in your party this is a must have.
- If you're quick (really quick) to Teleport Pyramid away before the dialog starts, you'll still end up go talking with the Undertaker, but after you'll be out of range of combat if your other party members are not close by.
- You get similar amounts of experience from either combat (~400 XP total) or appeasement (~200 XP total) and both methods give very little XP.
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AnonymousPERFORATION info
Since I could not find any info on this, nor three is separate wiki entry, I had to do some tests so I'll post info here in case anyone else ever needs it :
- hands from Vulture set ( The Vulture's Claws ) have permanent 'Set Perforation' effect ( plus 5% crit chance). It is enough to use just hands, no full set is needed
- added damage is Piercing (ignore armor) and scale with player level , approximately DAMAGE = (LEVEL-10)*4
- that piercing damage increase with high ground and crits ( so Huntsman/Scoundrel improves it )
- damage does NOT increase from +dmg% skills ( so Warfare, Finesse, Ranged ... do NOT improve it )
Determining if Vulture gloves are better than good Divine level gloves is not straightforward, but in most cases they are better.
On the one hand you lose few Warfare or similar points, where absolute loss of damage is larger if you have good weapon and gear. On the other hand you gain 'flat' piercing damage, which is good even if you do not have very good gear/weapon. But even with very good gear, Vulture gloves are in most cases better than divine level gloves because they add 5% crit in addition to piercing effect. For example, at level 16 for my Bow user they were twice as good as best divine gloves. YMMW.
- since gloves come with additional 5%crit, they are usually better than best Divine gloves for eg Bows
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Did it at level 10 with Fane disguised as Dwarf. HAD to get the 2nd book though, otherwise it was combat each time.
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I dont have the book and i didnt find it in witchs house. I mean it just wasnt there idk why. Still can do theh quest?
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this fight was a bit of a headache but me and my friend managed to cheese it. since we're both lone wolves and both have 2 repositioning abilities, we just cycle our turns by going down the beach every time, giving the enemy no turn to move lol. it was very cheesy but only doable if you're standing on the platform near the beach + ranged attacks and or skills to make you not move anywhere.
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For maximum xp:
- Fight the Undertaker
- Kill it for (375 XP)
- Bless the feathers by placing them on the ground (125 XP)
- Talk with the Undertaker's spirit and persuade her to lift the curse on the feathers (25 XP)
In total: 525 XP
Miniscule, compared to the headache of a fight. Take the safe option.
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Just teleport the ****ing bird to the beach and smash the dwarves
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When you wear the full set, you are not able to collect floor source. -________-
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F*** this fight. Birdy was the last enemy standing, and red prinz with full health and armour. over ten f***** rounds it was only the birds turn and he pommeld through. What the f*** F*** f*** is this B****S*** boss
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Lol why the **** are u giving us directions like " south west of Driftwood. (around X:217, Y:28)" when there is nothing ingame to tell us this information anyway???
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If you're over 25 and have a ranger in your party, this armor set is a must have!
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I cannot say i want to save the fallen souls no matter who I use at lvl 15 most of my stuff is maxed it makes no sense.
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I can do all steps but step 4 "Save the souls of the fallen" isn't an option, is there a 3rd book I have to read?
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Level 10, Fane's mask as dwarf, 0 negotiation, successfully appeased the undertaker without fight.
P.S. Vulture armor is Lv14 yet can be used by Lv 10 character, very OP at this level. Didn't see anyone else had mentioned this.
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Killing Duna in tactican mode awards 375 xp at lvl 15, not sure if bugged or intentional since peaceful resolve awards 125k. So be advised people
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Cannot find any mutton. Bought some in Driftwood and must have turned it into dinner or some other blunder. Where else can I procure some?? Have not seen on any other trader, loot or drops.
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Peaceful outcome, not origin, human, lvl 14, Honour mode, got 125xp and 5 Blessed Feathers from Duna and 200xp from crafting it (if you are confused about crafting just buy all leather armour - easy to know since they have finesse requirement). Wanted to reload to know what xp I'd get from killing it, but Honour mode saves whenever it wants to.
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Info on this page may be incorrect: it says you must be level 14 for the peaceful dialogue option--I was able to complete the quest at level 13 using Fane to talk to her.
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I can't seem to continue this quest (this run I decided I would sell books instead of hoarding them, no idea where I sold the first book (probably still in Fort Joy)) is there an alternative book somewhere? Or is there a way to summon them without the first book?
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Is there any benefit in fighting the Undertaker?
By just placing the infused meat on the altar & giving the right dialogue choices I got 5 blessed feathers and 125 xp.
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Tip to beat her with lone wolf Ranger lv13 in tactician mode.
1: Teleport her to the beach. (She will just stand there till all her minion die the run back to the altar) 2: Clear her minions.
3: Sneak and wait for her to come back.
4: Buff and clear her physical armour with Arrow Spray and keep CC her with knock down until she die.
P/s: You can let one minion stay alive and snipe her when she stand still on the beach too.
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Best of luck fighting this thing if you don't have Amulet of the Deep or 100%+ air resistance.
The bird spams Superconductor and the rain will cover the arena in water so you'll be knee-deep in electrified water for most of the fight.
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The dialogue options for me were different using beast.
1. Select Beast option
2. Bow
3. Quietly ask for blessing
4. Save the souls of the fallen
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Duna's undertaking was at the Lady vengence in the ocean for me. Glitched for me. Can't complete this quest.
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I was able to get the Vulture armor set without fighting (and losing) at level 11 without Beast among my companions. Fane is my primary character and he was wearing the shapeshifter mask set to Dwarf. I also had to read both Dwarven custom books, an inference based on an earlier failed attempt to secure the feathers without reading the second book located in the Witch's hut. The successful effort also required the proper responses during the conversation with Duna's Undertaker with a few reloads of saves before I stumbled on the correct sequence (I didn't jot it down, so....)
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I used a Custom Human Male and selected the peaceful dialogue options at level 12. No Beast in party. Received the feathers peacefully. The lvl 14 requirement seems to be incorrect.
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Is it possible to use soul mate with an undead character and then drink poison potions to kill the undertaker?
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Why no boss details or a link. Are you just trying to make this page as counter intuitive as the game? Are you just really stupid?
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Teleport the corpses near the alter before fight, then Mass Corpse Explosion :)
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cant find the book on orivand chamber, its a bug isn't it ?
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I talked to the undertaker, got the blessed feathers, and crafted the armor. The flag marker for the ancient alter is still there and the quest keep calm and carrion has not closed. Not sure if I’m missing something or bugged?
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If you craft quills, the game will use your vulture feathers...
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Was able to complete the peaceful solution at level 9 as an elf. No mods used but did have the lone wolf perk so I’m not sure if that possibly affected the level cap, don’t know why it would. Otherwise it’s possible that the level cap on the respectful option has been removed.
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Hey guys, I crafted hands twice and now I'm short of 1 Blessed vulture feather for a complete set of Vulture armor. Any chance I can get somehow more feathers ? Did I just ruined my quest ?
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Was able to peacefully receive Blessed Vulture Feather with Fane in Dwarf form using Shapeshifter Mask at level 11.
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Ran into a bug where the pants revert into the non-set skin and wearing the full set no longer provides any bonuses. Everything is still level 14 though? No clue how to fix.
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WARNING: Found a huge bug where the pants disappears completely. Not sure how it triggers, but it triggered when i bought finesse equipment in Driftwood square to craft it with. Everything but the pants successfully crafted.
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Regarding how to craft Vulture Armor - It says in the Recipes that Vulture armor requires any 'Leather Armor' to be combined with blessed Vulture feathers that you receive from Duna's Undertaker. After searching hours to find some 'leather armor' in Reaper's coast and finding none with any NPC, I realized that it doesnt have to be Leather armor - Any armor which is 'Finesse class' or which says 'Requiring Finesse level x' in the description will do. Posting here for other's benefit.
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Fun tip on how to make it easy:
There are many corpses and oil barrels at a ambush site down the path that leads up and away from the alter, not the path that leads down to the beach. I teleported all the corpses to the alter and moved a few oil barrels, cast peace of mind on my necro, and initiated dialogue. If you keep your characters close boss won’t jump away and when it’s your turn mass corpse explosion and one shot!!
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Will this upgrade to level 18 in Act 4, if you sell it to the Fletcher on the ship in Act 3?
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Just a heads up, you an get the feathers without any fighting if you choose the right dialogue options. I did picked respectful options, asked for blessing instead of demanding, bowed with arms outstretched, and said I wanted to save fallen souls. I also read all the books, not sure if that unlocked anything.
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Don't know why it says "1 blessed feather + any leather part armour", any finesse type armor worked for me.
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You can also get a (one) source orb early in Siva’s basement in the energy chest next to the incinerator
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Recipe for Source Infused Mutton:
Source Orb + Raw Mutton + Any Earth Essence
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So what amount of XP did people get for this quest? I was playing with Lone Wolf talent at level 12(with my partner also level 12 Lone Wolf) and only received 375XP for killing Duna's UT. Seems really low for a boss that strong and it's minions. :/
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Can someone explain where this source infused meat recipe is mentioned? I know nothing about it and read both books.
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This armor is so so good on a ranger or any ranged character. It isn't stated in description but the full set gives you permanent Farsight (+4m range), which makes a huge difference on flat surfaces (13m is common range which becomes 17m).
On high ground the distance is less immediately noticeable because you already have great range but can still be significant in some fights. There are many areas you can stand so far away you can target the enemy and it may not even initiate combat when you hit them due to them not being able to see you.
It can be difficult to kill high level enemies in this fashion because their physical armor comes back pretty quickly but Marksmans Fang can be extremely effective.
The only negative about this armor is your initiative will be somewhat low, but this is fine for characters with executioner role.
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Okay, just be aware that if you craft a Quill while you have the Blessed Vulture Feathers in your inventory, the game will use these as a source for the Quill. SUPER f-ing lame.
Threw away the original armour set in Act 1 (first time using this gift bag so didn't understand their relevance), so was waiting until I could purchase various bits of leather armour from Traders (leather gloves and helms are pretty rare). In the meantime, crafted a quill to produce skillbook; game used one of the Vulture Feathers sitting in a backpack. So now unable to craft the full set unless I'm willing to rifle through a bunch of save games and lose a bunch of gameplay.
Why is this even possible? Why is this quest available in Act 1 when nothing can be accessed until Act 2? F-ing lame Millhouse.
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does anyone else's lizards get a weird tail glitch when they wear the pants?
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having trouble obtaining leather helmet piece for crafting, any adivce?
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I figured it out somewhat. I disabled all my mods and I got to make it as per the recipe.
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I can't make source-infused meat. I followed the recipe by going to a stove, selected raw mutton, source orb and earth essence. But I got an invalid combination.
I wonder if it's due to one of the mods that I'm using.
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it closed saying i crafted the same piece of armor multiple times even though i crafted every piece except for the body and still had a feather
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I can't craft the Vulture Helm nor the Legs but I was able to craft the other 3 pieces no issue. Has anyone had this problem
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I wouldn't bother doing the fight. You only receive 375XP and about 250 gold worth of loot from killing everyone and cursed feathers, VS simply performing the 1 -> 3 -> 4 -> 2 ritual which nets you 125XP AND pre-blessed feathers.
Being lvl 16, and needing 1.000.000 XP and carrying 250K gold, it felt MUCH better just doing it the "right" way.
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When wearing the full set you also seem to get permanent far sight buff.
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You can also have the blessed armor after killing the Undertaker by talking to her spirit and passing a persuasion check.
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I had to cheese it and just teleported the undertaker into driftwood. let the whole town jump on it. was a massacre
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You can avoid combat with the following dialogue options: 1. receive blessings -> 3. bow with arms outstretched -> 4. quietly request blessings -> 2. save the souls of the fallen. The Undertaker will then give you 5 blessed feathers. It won't drop any additional loot/XP if you choose combat, so this way may be easier.
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The witch in reapers coast has a page that details the ritual for the bird, with it you can get the feathers without the fight
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What are the recipes? I didn't pick up the book but have 5 blessed feathers after an incredibly difficult fight and a level 5 persuasion check (to get them blessed by the spirit of the bird).
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Can you do this if you never noticed the book in Act 1 and skipped it?
The book of Dwarven customs and traditions could be found also from Ryker's Mansion.
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