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Slane the Winter Dragon is an NPC in Divinity: Original Sin II.
Slane the Winter Dragon information
- Upon first encountering Slane you will find him bound to the ground by a set of chains, which can be destroyed through attacking them. The dragon will not be able to speak with you until you do this.
- After some dialogue you will be asked to retrieve the Witch's purging wand, as it is the only way to free the dragon of it's souls captivity.
- Radeka the Witch wields the Purging Wand, and must be found in the beachside cave to the South of Slane's location. Kill her and the extra enemies summons to loot the wand from her corpse.
- Upon returning to Slane with the wand in inventory, you may speak with him again and either offer to give him the Purging Wand or decide to keep it for yourself. (NOTE NEXT TWO BULLETINS)
- Handing the wand over results in his gratitude, and a loot choice. Slane will be of use later as he will destroy the Shriekers to the north of The Abandoned Camp upon your party approaching them. It's very possible to die while standing in the Shrieker's range waiting for Slane to fly over, so watch the "tendrils" connecting to you, they indicate you're in the instant death zone. If the Shriekers are already dead, you instead get Encouraged status for 50 turns and Chilled status for 10 turns for the fight with Alexander. Get straight in the battle or the Encouraged status will wear off and be wasted.
- Refusing to give Slane the Purging Wand results in combat.
- Slane the Winter Dragon is Level 9.
Slane the Winter Dragon location
- Slane the Winter Dragon first appears in southeast area of the island, not far from Witch's Location and Gargoyle's Maze. He will be on the beachside, with frozen surfaces surrounding the area.
Notes and Tips
- Ranged Physical Damage, Bleeding, and Knockdown will win this fight. Keep your party spread out as Slane has massive AOE attacks.
- Scoundrel skill Rupture Tendons does great damage when he moves around.
- Polymorph skill Chicken Claw also works well.
- Killing Slane the Winter Dragon awards 6000XP and drops probably the best one-handed weapon in Act 1: Fang of the Winter Dragon (Also tends to drop unidentified Epic and Rare gear)
- Defeating Slane the Winter Dragon grants a "Dragonslayer" achievement on the Steam Community.
- If the party gives the Purging Wand to Slane, it will receive 2100XP and he will briefly turn back into a lizard (his original form).
AnonymousWhy can't I for ONCE get an epic dragon battle without a heavily guilty conscience... I could never bring myself to fight this guy since it doesn't feel RIGHT, but I love epic dragon fights... Oh, woe is me.
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Killed him in Tactician Solo No Lone Wolf with a lvl 8 Necromancer Sebille... without save scumming or anything possibly deemed as "cheap". If you struggle. Just a skill issue tbh
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If you manage to get him to fight the burning skeletons in the maze, he will eventually turn aggressive for some reason
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Found this out by accident: If you pickpocket Radeka's wand off her and give it to Slane, you can complete his quest like usual.
But if you go back to the cave and kill Radeka, she drops the wand again and when you go outside, Slane is once again lying there in his weakened state (with the same dialogue as first time around). This gives you a chance to kill him after initially doing the quest to save him.
I do not know if this overwrites him helping you killing those shriekers at the final fight on Fort Joy if you kill him at this point.
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You free this dude from eternal captivity and all he does is destroy the shriekers. Like, dude cmon your a dragon
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How disapointing is it to read ppl complaining about having to kill him or blaming those who don't have problem with killing him...
Just kill everything that deserve to be killed, like all the magisters, and this weak lizard who is an insult to the powerfull dragon's race !
You're not here to grow as a merciful hero, you're here to rise as a GOD ! Good and Evil are meaningless to you, so don't think that way !
A consistent way i found to kill him in lizard knight form is to give him the wand, and while the menu option of "end" is available to the talking character, attack him with a second one. That way you will get the 2100 xp for helping, he will then transform into his lizard form and immediately be aggressive towards you.
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Update:
They patched it. You cannot agro him when in conversation so you can't get both exp. I past on tactician and I had to agro him before giving the wand, otherwise he would just fly off. He kiled the first character in his first turn and 2 in his second.
So I restarted and dropped a spare death barrel as close as possible on his head. Didn't kill him right away but when flying up to me he touched the deathfog and I got 6000 exp plus some very nice loot (including the one handed Fang of the Winter Dragon sword :D)
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Everybody is in the comments complaining about having to kill him. How about you murderhobos chill the **** out and just talk to the poor thing instead of being hell bent on grabbing every last point of experience.
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You can get both XPs if you give him the wand and then attack him before you hit end. He will stand up to attack, and will wait until you're done talking. Kinda cheese, and he obv won't help with the final fight or anything, but you can have your Slane and eat him too.
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Kinda sad how this game is forcing you to kill EVERYTHING. I do not remember anything like that in DOS1. Maybe I just have bad memory.
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You can pickpocket the wand back after giving it to Slane (but maybe only as long as he remains in his dragon form).
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Slane is not a good guy. He says explicitly he was in love with the Witch and for a small trifle she wielded a purging wand against him. He admits to being in a relationship with that vile necromancer. Kill him and loot. That is the reason you get 6k exp and better loot.
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tried the deathfog thing today. Slane just walk away like it's nothing... wtf?
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drop deadfog under him, turn in the wand, ram 111111111111 get reward fast and press k then boom he dies.
done.
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Literally just kill him by firing shooting him with wands from far distance. Dude died just like that. Easy achievement 10/10
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It's a shame that killing him yields significantly better rewards than helping him. Would prefer not having to choose between levelling and gearing my characters or staying true to their personalities in a role-playing game.
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Completing the quest gives you one of the worst rewards I've seen. I mean you save this big dragon from eternal torment and he gives you something you would loot on a simple magister. Also he's too full of himself, aggressive and doesn't help you at all. Kill it! Do it!
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I like him too much to kill him and vastly prefer to save him. Y'all are just murderhobos.
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My cheese strat: Remember that quest where the skull tell you not to open the chest. Have someone with telekinesis stack up all the plant blobs together and move it to him. You will have to take the long route towards the abandoned camp to bring it to him tho. It only takes 3 ticks in real time to kill him.
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Teleported him to the all the way to the shriekers while talking to him, where they killed him.
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If you wish to cheese Slane incredibly easily, all you have to do is have one party member lure Slane to the ramp leading up to the Abandoned Camp, and up that hill is a stone platform you can have Archers, mages, Summoners, ect all stand on. It helps keep your squishy targets further from him, so he needs to waste time getting there. Another thing, positioning a summon correctly on that platform will allow for an incredibly long sight range for abilities like Mosquito Swarm, which can be used repeatedly on Slane while he is waiting for your character to make their move. It's incredibly cheesy, but if people struggle with the fight, the option is always there.
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If you choose to kill him instead, put on the cursed chest armor "Heart of the Tyrant" on one character (but not the other pieces, which remove the curse). That character will be immune to the chilling effects of the area.
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So uh...if you already received the "call to arms" quest and recruited gareth's helpers (I recruited kerban and duggan) before this quest, it poses a problem. I tried the "attack slane while another character is talking to slane" trick, and Duggan didn't like that. -20 attitude and started a fight between Gereth's 2 helpers and my party. Q__Q"
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1. Give him the wand but don't press [end] 2. Attack him three times with a second character 3. Once he stands up and has an enemy outline, press [end] 4. Kill him for his loot after receiving quest exp 5. Watch him help you with the shriekers after you just killed him
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If you give him the wand and don't exist chat just attack him with another character he will Dodge every attack but he will go into combat as a lizard and give you xp for quest kill AND kill all the shriekers.
- Anonymous
(Though Anonymous I'm the same person who posted the last paragraph) Added detail I forgot to mention, when I selected to kill him I killed him before killing the witch. So perhaps it was seen as an act of mercy?
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This is what I found. Not killing; - He kills two Shreiker's for you. - He gives you not much more than 2k exp and some loot, one of which you can pick. - You generally just feel like a good person. Killing; - You save a purging wand. - Upon death you gain 6k exp and much better loot then what he offers as thanks. - Unsure if it's a bug, just a thing in the definitive edition, or normal, but I gained +5 attitude for all party members including The Red Prince and Sir Lora. (Looked by right clicking and clicking 'examine') I checked if perhaps I gained more attitude if I went with freeing him but I actually got nothing for anyone. The fact you also never see him again in the game nor does he actually do anything for you or the story other than kill things that aren't that big of a problem, assuming you're not dumb with the wands, the devs really made it not feel worth just letting him go. Plus there's even a steam achievement for killing him. Even if he was just an NPC you could chat with again, romance, or simply have a shop would be nice but no. You could argue that the loot becomes useless later down the line so why bother killing but then you could just sell it, plus he gives you more than double the exp than saving him which is tasty.
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If you save him and give him his source back he'll kill all the shrierkers at Abandoned Camp area.
Killing him gave:
6000 xp
Unidentified Epic Dagger (with various names, one I got was Longshank).
Unique Sword - Fang of the Winter Dragon
2x Unidentified Rare Rings
Skillbook Dazing Bolt
Medium Flame Rune
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i did it on Tactician thanks to the Dome Of Protection.6000 xp and good loot..Then again tactician isnt meant for an Origin Character other than custom.Their source powers are awful other than Fane perhaps.
Magic doesnt work well on Slane because he has permanent Soothing Cold..Physical damage is required.
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Rupture Tendons (Scoundrel skill) absolutely wrecks Slane. I applied it with my rogue, then Slane used Dragonfall to attack my max-range archer before using Fly to get back into melee combat with my rogue. The rupture knocked off around 2/3 of his health when he used Fly.
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Is this dude like an OC insert from crowdfunding or something? I find it a bit strange how the MC kind of gushes over him.
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considered saving the dragon but his name is slane so I slained him
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I was able to kill him at level 7 using a rogue and a summoner. Dropped an uber sword, a dagger called Toothpick, and some other unique items.
Sept 2023
It is still possible to get both 2100xp(give him the wand) + 6000xp(kill him) but the rewards for completing the quest by giving him the wand will be missed.
1. Talk to Slane after u get the wand.
2. BEFORE giving him the wand, attack Slane (Dragon form) multiple times until his gesture changed.
3. After giving him the wand, you gained 2100xp, and the fight against Slane starts immediately.
4. After killing him you gained another 6000xp + looting the unique sword and other stuff.
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