The Elven Seer is a Quest in Divinity: Original Sin II.
Important NPCs
- Roost
- Tovah
- Saheila
The Elven Seer Objectives
- Rescue Saheila from sawmill
The Elven Seer Walkthrough
At the temporary elven encampment (south of the Abandoned Sawmill - (X:508 Y:317), if you do not provoke the elves, Tovah will ask you to help rescue Saheila, who has presumably been captured by the Lone Wolves and held hostage there. If you killed Saheila back in Fort Joy at the very beginning, you get the quest Vengeance for the Fallen instead.
Tip: It is easier to build rapport with the elves if you have an elven character, such as Sebille, talk to them and choose the options that mimic their actions.
After talking to Tovah, you will need to kill Roost and then safely exfiltrate Saheila from the Sawmill back to to the elven camp to complete the quest.
Tip: If you have Ifan ben-Mezd enter the Sawmill, you'll gain immediate passage for your entire party, allowing you to freely explore first. If you don't have him in your party, you will need to have an elven character (e.g. Sebille) talk to the guards to gain passage into the sawmill.
Roost is located on the second floor of the sawmill, accompanied by two crossbowmen and two wolves. After you successfully kill Roost, all the other Lone Wolves outside will turn hostile. You will need to either kill them all or try to sneak away, although it's near impossible to do so without confrontation. Note, do NOT try to just warp to a safe waypoint from the map screen. Saheila will be left behind by herself; you need to specifically escort her out of the sawmill on foot.
Secret: If you use Spirit Vision, many dead spirits will appear around the sawmill, thanking you for killing them and giving you tons of experience each.
As a reward, Saheila will teach you how to master the Source (increase your maximum Source Points by one) at the camp, or the Far Sight skillbook if you already have a capacity of 3 source points. If Sebille is on your team, Saheila will reveal her true identity to her, and offer her the opportunity to become the heart of the Scions.
Anonymous74550 EXP for killing the elf camp.
You can kill the elf camp after finishing this quest and advancing Sebille's quest without angering Saheila, just use teleport to keep her far away (talk with char, tp this char, repeat). I locked her in dialogue with 1 chat and killed with others, not sure if necessary as she seems to stay in place regardless.
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as for the "secret": those are actually all little quests given by spirits. Basically those are ppl the lone wolves murdered and they want revenge but each lone wolf is a quest, basically. Dont know if not picking up the quest beforehand makes any difference though.
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Try to do it at lvl 13-14. If you do it at high lvl, the loot will be disappointing.
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e se ela morreu? Oque eu faço? Tentei proteje-la, mas estavam mirando nela
After successfully talking/getting past persuasion checks with the elves at their encampment (playing as Fane so masked up as an Elf), I went in and cleared out the sawmill, including Roost, so there was nobody in the way to get Sahelia back to the camp. Once we crossed the big log back to her camp, she disappeared and went back to her camp automatically. Toward the end of this act, I killed all the elves for their massive loot and cash. Was actually a very long battle (playing as dual mage Lone Wolf party). Four of the elves had cash ranging from 8k to 10k gold pieces, plus tons of nice loot to keep or sell. Since there is no real 'use' for Sahelia past this act, figured why not. This is a game that rewards crazy behavior like this, morals be damned! Each elf was worth I think 14500 xp.
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If you have the amulet from the lone wolf who pretended to be a merchant the ones in the bridge will allow you free pass. Tried with Fane has main with the amulet
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After killing Roost, it's actually doable to have Saheila sneak out alone without triggering any fight!
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The trophy only asks you to keep Saheila out of combat, not your team members. So you can engage mobs with your team members and still get the trophy (confirmed in DE on PC). Since Saheila will only follow main character, it's best to unchain your main character and stay in Roost's room, and let the other 3 team members to pave the path.
The fight is easy if you just warp away and attack from the front door. There are several watchtowers and leveled platforms to cheese. I cleared the whole camp with only Incarnates, Totems and Bone Widows.
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Realize this:
She, as the Seer, CANNOT enter combat.
Use a summon to pick a fight, and keep your party out of combat. Navigate the area while sneaking as the Seer and use teleport to get her out the back way.
Then, head back in to finish those quests of killing the wolves.
Trophy cleared, and quests done.
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One mage spirit (on the right after the bridge if you face camera north) will give you a permanent skill depending on 3 options.. I chose number 2 (the splash one i think) gave me a hydro skill on my main who is not a hydro :D feels wasted damn it.
Can we update this guide please
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I had my aerothurge/ranger (Sabille with Far Out Man) warp out to the nearest waypoint. Saheila (who was linked to her) and the rest of the gang were camping out on the ground floor of the sawmill. I had Sabille make her way over to the tall platform south of the SE corner of the sawmill. When she got to the top (via Tactical Retreat, since the ladder exploded!) Saheila comes running out of the sawmill to rejoin Sabille, and gets attacked by the goons there. Had her run far enough south until she was in Teleport range of Sabille. Boom! Extracted. Rest of the gang joined us with pyramids.
Lots of booby traps in that area between the sawmill and the elven camp. But that's what incarnates are for, right? Makes a great minesweeper. After getting Saheila back home with mom, we came back to the sawmill and mopped up the remaining flunkies.
- Anonymous
I killed Saheila in Fort Joy, and when I got to the camp they were instantly hostile. No attempt to talk to me. Not sure if this is intended, but it was interesting.
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Some advice: talk to the spirits before you kill everyone in the mill. You still get most of the experience after, but you get explanations of how they died and you can only get a "say my name" quest and the location of treasure on the beach if you talk to them before.
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HUGE HELP. When you kill rost you just teleport in Drifwood Square and go to Meistrs house underground. I so happy than i find this way because i dont finish this qwest
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Separate Saheila and whoever she’s linked to from the group and send them downstairs in the mill. Have Saheila pop an invisibility potion and your character eat chanterelle(or another potion) and you’ll have plenty of time for them to make it out mill. Use pyramids to bring the rest of the group with you once outside
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I can't enter they just say they are having a ritual and won't let me in help?
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I blocked the exit to the room, used waypoint back to the lady vengance and then went downstairs. Sahelia appeared and went back to the elven camp.
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I waypointed outside intending on clearing the enemies to ensure Saheila's saftey. I fought all of the lone wolves at the front gate and snuck left to isolate lone wolf mummie dearest. I teleported my entire group to driftwood and entered Meister Siva's house to refresh on source. Interestingly enough, Saheila warped with my party when I entered and I completed the quest of freeing her. Didn't get the rewards though, might have to locate that elven camp.
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If you have a character with teleport. You can split him from party muse a waypoint and head to the bridge leading to the lone wolves. There is a watch platform near the bridge. You go up and you have teleport range for choosing target upto the sawmill entrance. You cm then us teleport ability to teleport both of them out.
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Literally just added a Invisibility potion to sahelas hotbar and walked out before it ran out all the way to the frog
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saheila was stuck at the doorway, so i teleported her and she started following again
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I picked off enemies in ones and twos from the back entrance and then killed Roost. Then leisurely walked Saheila back to elf camp.
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If you want the achievement, just kill them all first, then go upstair and rescue Saheila.
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I had the glitch as well. I fixed it by saving, pickpocketing Tovah, and then reloading the save again. This initiated the conversation automatically for me.
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I’m playing definitive edition and there’s some sort of glitch where after I get Saheila out of the mill and she runs back to her tribe neither her nor her mother will talk to my character. I’ve reloaded from before I enter the mill a few times now and I can’t seem to change the outcome
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For escorting Saheila, I teleported to the Driftwood Square Waypoint and climbed down the ladder in Meistr Siva's place, and the quest automatically completed without having to lead her through the Lone Wolves
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For me, they weren't friendly to Ifan, one of the mates outside the sawmill, a Lizard lady started barking at him, how dare he show his face there? No clue why. Then there was only option to try to bribe her, which failed and started combat. So I loaded and had to sneak in there. No convo with Roost, instant combat, but since there would be combat anyway, I killed him. Later talking to Sebille with my main char (Lohse) she acted like there was an actual convo between her and Rosst ("you've heard, what Roost said with your own ears" ... well no, Sebilee, I haven't, there was a fight, perhaps too loud to hear you talk? But well you participated too as I remember). So perhaps a bug, or something. I haven't talked to Roost, but my companions act as if they did.
- Anonymous
I was able to enter the camp and freely explore it by having Lone Wolf's Mark amulet. All i had to do was kill the infiltrated lone wolf in the Black Bull inn and retrieve amulet form him. As you enter the sawmill camp via main entrance an option to show amulet to guard will appear.
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Be warned if you're playing as Sebille. After returning Saheila to the elves but before you get the dialogue options for the Source point, Saheila will try to convince Sebille to embrace her role as Prime Scion. For role-playing reasons, I refused. Saheila and all the elves go immediately hostile, and she you lose her as a Source teacher. The workaround I found is to break off the other members of my party and place them at the elf camp. Saheila is attached to Sebille as you lead her out, but she disengages when you approach the elves. I then fast traveled Sebille away and talked to Saheila with another party member. You get the Source point, and Saheila doesn't even bring the issue up when Sebille talks to her after the point is awarded.
- Anonymous
I talked my way into camp with Ifan's help. After I killed Roost, I didn't immediately talk to Saheila. I went downstairs and cleared everyone out since they all become hostile no matter what. THEN after they were all dead, I went back upstairs and talked to Saheila the first time and easily led her safely back to the elves.
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I had such trouble getting Saheila out of there. So I teleported to nearest shrine, walked back but entered from the coast/beach. Stayed out of sight, near the house with Mommie Dearest. Switched to Saheila and sneaked as far as I could towards the party. If she got into a fight I used all her AP to approach the party. When she was close enough I used teleportation spell to get her out of the fight. Then just fled with the rest. Will return to clear house...
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easy easy line 2 or 3 cooking pot or candles the door and trig and teleport the elf. the Roosts cannot pass the door
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Easiest way to do this: Before you go into the sawmill, leave a teleporter pyramid in the elf camp. After Roost and the gang are dead, pickpocket Sahelia. Put the other teleporter pyramid on her. It will appear on her hotbar. Use it, and voila!
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teleportation cubes are your friend. control saheila and get her to use the teleportation cube after teleporting one of your companions to a waypoint
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I found a easy way to save Saheila without fighting anyone for the achievement. Select Saheila, and put her in sneak mode. Teleport the party somewhere else (Saheila will not follow, but also not move). Enter a basement or cavern, Saheila will appear with the party.
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I finally figured it out. After the patch, you should get someone with the teleportation skill stationed on top of the sentry platform just outside of the main entrance to the mill. Then, have Seheila sneak towards you, avoiding the sight line of the moving Lone Wolf (that means you move to the right, towards the guy looking at the water, behind the stack of wood). After you switch back to the one with the teleportation skill, quickly cast it and teleport her beside you, because Seheila will start sneaking BACK to your PC and she might get spotted. Escort her beyond the traps and you should get the achievement.
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You can also have 5 points in persuasion and some points in constitution and talk about how you have some wares to trade and they let me in free
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Anyone know which skill book Saheila gives in lieu of a source point? I'm trying to decide whether I want her to give me a source point or the skill book or an alternative skill book.
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It really helps to teleport into the back of the camp from the west side, where you can take out Momma Dearest (or whatever her name is) by herself. I fought the whole camp at once and did great until she came up and two-shot everyone in my party -_- Then you can take out the guy along in the other part of that building, then the two guys in the main courtyard, then the front gate guys, then finally the potion guy in the back. Easiest fight ever.
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We did all of the dialogue but did not get a source point from Sabrina. Any one know a fix?
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Can't talk to Sahelia or Torvah after escorting Sahelia to the camp. No way to finish her quests or get the source point from her. Unbelievable that this bug hasn't been *****ing fixed.
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I somehow found a solution on the bug, i pickpocket saheila and intentionally get caught after that it allow me to converse to her again and the quest closed
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The quest bugged for me also at the Elven camp and couldnt talk to neither Saheila nor Tovah ... FIxed by stealing Tovah first then Saheila (couldnt steal Saheila first). They both interact with the character that stole them and debugs them. Use bride to avoid the fight and steal a cheap item of some kind.
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My playthrough just bugged, I rescued her, she ran to her friends (in the place they are burrying the other elf) but I can't click her anymore so I cant complete the quest :/
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I have a problem; When I got out of the Mill by using the waypoint after killing Roost, Saheila is literally gone and I don't see her anywhere (even at the Elven Camp). Is this a bug or what
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I'm so confused, I found Saheila dead in the sawmill with Roost and his bodyguards alive, killed them, reported to Tovah for The Elven Seer quest and she didn't believe me and thought I was one of them (I don't even have Ifan in my group) and started fighting me.. ???????????????????????????????????
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Waypointing out with Sahelia doesn't work after recent patches, but you can still waypoint out without her and circle back to sneakily kill off everyone one by one. Keeping her on the second floor stops her from getting killed which is nice.
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You don't need Ifan to enter the mil peacefully: you need the wolf amulet from the false Baran Levere.
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There is an Ancestor Tree that you can talk with Spirit Vision, you have to pass a persuasion test, the Tree will inform you of a tree that became a bridge so you can sneak from the back
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About the Secret part, it should be more interesting to redirect us to each quest, it is wise to start with Old Flames
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Be sure to cast Spirit Vision after killing Roost to free the spirits of some little kids and talk to the spirit of Roost himself.
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Bug -- When you talk to the trader, Fletcher Corbin Day, before killing anyone, he will seem to think the Lone Wolves are dead and he can now escape. You can recruit him to join you on the ship.
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As you approach the sawmill, the frontal paths are blocked by all sorts of cursed clouds and surfaces, as well as traps. You can clear the clouds and surfaces with Pressure Spike and Rain, respectfully. For cursed surfaces, you'll have to use Bless. There seem to be pressure plates on the western approach by the outhouses, not sure what they do. Perhaps they trigger traps that I disarmed already. On the eastern approach, there are also pressure plates that seem to activate a pair of torches along the walkway. I cleared the poison cloud there with pressure spike, then used rain to wash it away.
The rear approach (along the beach) or from the Red Princess camp are the safest. However, if you approach from the beach, you'll have to fight or bribe someone. If you approach the front gate and have Ifan ben-Mezd in your party, then you can enter safely and speak to Roost.
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Not sure if quest rewards are preset but I got level 9 stuff for this quest when the npc are 14. Bit of a waste but great experience.
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BIG TIP FOR PEOPLE DOING THIS QUEST. As you go into the sawmill and kill people there, make sure to use your spirit vision all over the area. There are a bunch of spirits that would LOVE to see those lone wolves dead and gives you 10400 xp per spirit. If i remember correctly - there's about 4-5 which = 40-50k FREE xp.
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You can fight your way into the sawmill, otherwise you can use Ifan or a token you get from the "trader" from the 2nd story of the inn in Driftwood
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how do you get into the encampment? the two guards just say they are in ritual and wont let anyone in...
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You can Waypoint Travel anywhere and it will trigger her being saved automatically giving you about 24,000 exp
If you want to safely escort saheila out while avoiding combat; equip flight at the character which saheila is binded to, try to sneak north as far as you can go then try to fly to the other side of the main bridge or the furthest you can go. after that just book it until you're out of combat. you would have to engage in combat but saheila is manually controlled so have her avoid combat and have her teleported on the far bridge if you can. get her out of combat too. The rest of your party can just use the teleport pyramid and tp out of there.
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