The Gargoyle's Maze | Divinity Original Sin 2 Wiki

Why are so many of you so stupid? You don't TAKE THE SKULLS TO THE GARGOYLE! The only way you can take multiple skulls to him is by TELEPORTATION THROUGH GATES which is why the Gargoyle IS CALLING YOU A CHEATER and NOT GIVING THE BEST POSSIBLE REWARDS!

You're SUPPOSED TO USE THE DAMN SKULLS, THE MORE THE BETTER!

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1. Go to the illusionary cave entrance of the Braccus Vault. 2. Use wings or any jump to jump across the water to the land mass to the east (heading to the Captain's Cursed Chest). 3. Use the back entrance to walk to the tower and completely bypass the maze.

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everything larian does is so annoying

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What do I do if the first skull doesn’t spawn like it appears and then disappears never to be seen again even though save games

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Just a little tip I picked up. You can use Sebille's backstab ability on a skeleton on the other side of the gate to get her in a much better starter position for the fight in the historian room. I used TP gloves on Beast to get my blood rain + Bless user through the first gate, combat started, I then used blood rain and blessed the historian, then without ending my turn, I switched back to Beast who was not in combat. Then I teleported my blood rain user back through the gate and ran out of the maze entrance to end combat. REST with bedroll. The skeletons stay out so I can then get sebille just outside the gate on the left in the room with the oil spills. Perfect position to start combat with a back stab on the caster skeleton. Obviously you could tp through the whole maze but that's pretty lame. I kept the tp gloves on one character.

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If you don't have raining blood or flesh sacrifice, you can teleport two players up near historian; 1 must not be undead. Then repetitively force hit the non-undead character until blood flies. Cast Bless once you have a decent amount of blood near historian. Worked for me.

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If you dont have the raining blood spell the info above is incomplete and will not douse hellfire! You need to use blood sacrifice or create a blood pool then you need to use teleport to move the hisorian onto the blood puddle. If you simply try to cut your self while looking at him(even if you teleported to the pedestal thing he is crouched on) it will only make a puddle around him and you will waste a source point if tou bless him after. You need to find or create a blood pool then use gloves of teleport (or use spell if aero 2) and drop jim ontop of the puddle. At which point the fire will go out and he will start mentioning its finally out. Then cast bless

My source? I tried the above technique and it wasted a source point. Which is rare this late into the game being out that fextralife gave incomplete steps in a quest but hey pobody's nerfic!

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If you have 2ppl and Port gloves you can skip whole maze =)

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If you have 5 or 6 skuls gargoyle says you're cheater or ıf you don't open blue doors gargoyle says you're cheater again.If you have 4 skuls gargoyle gave uncommon item so use one of them and gain epic item.

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Tested and confirmed: acquiring 3 or more skulls and opening ANY 3 or more doors before you walk to the double doors with the gargoyle over it, will make so he rewards you Epic loot. If you open only 1 door before reaching the gargoyle, you will only get XP reward, 2 doors will give you green items.

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I used the ring, then the statue to teleport back and solve the maze. Unfortunately I didn't get the rewards because it recognised the ring dialogue choice (PS4 v1.12)

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Jesus Christ, the pathfinding in this place is horrible. I swear my PCs go out of their way to trip the traps they've already detected.

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you can skip the maze all together by going behind the maze to the south at the beach right next to the hidden cave entrance. just get across the water and walk all the way around. don't talk to braccus statue.

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If you have teleportation but no way to get blood just tele the historian over by rattus verus then teleport rattus verus onto him and it'll create a blood pool on death. The rat will die immediately upon teleportation so you have to move the historian first.

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Is there any extra XP or reward for getting all 6 skulls?

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If you are playing with only one character you can put a barrel on the pressure plates and receive the skulls that way because they disapear when you get off the plate

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Make sure to save before going up the stairs and claiming gargoyle's reward, as the stats on reward gear randomize every time you load the game. Take advantage of this cheese and roll yourself a reward with stats that better suit your party, or are just plainly op (+15% crit chance from one piece of gear, yes please..)

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If you have more than 3 skulls the door calls you a cheater and gives you nothing

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You can complete this without the use of any skulls at all. It involves the aggressive use of the TACTICAL RETREAT skill from the Huntsman skill set. You can lure out the three flaming skeletons, then teleport back through a locked gateway, then lure them to it so you can shoot them one at a time. In this way, you're able to whittle them out of your way. Then it is a simple matter of getting the Rain of Blood spell and using the Purging Wand on one of the Shriekers blocking your advance to the destination at the end of the island to get the Source Point required to Bless him. You can get the Tactical Retreat skill from Bahara, at Level 4 or above, which means by the time you're doing this quest, you should be able to easily go snag it for the "easy route."

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I don't know if this is a bug or caused by a mod but I was able to simply lockpick the doors. Maybe because my character had high enough thievery. But when I used Baccus Ring to skip the Maze I wasn't able to in a former playthrough. First I approached the gargoyle at the entrance and after it initiated a dialogue I went with "Walk away" then entered anyway.

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In order to save the historian, you could also use teleport on a companion with zero physical armor (undress him/her), and place the destination near the historian, thus creating a blood pool. Use bless skill (obtained in the vault quest) afterwards on the blood pool, to open the last portal. For epic loot you need to use only three out of six skulls to reach the tower gate, otherwise you either get nothing or you are being called a cheater.

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I got through the maze with 4 skulls, but the gargoyle at the tower only gave me green trash rewards?? Seen comments people saying you get epic reward for at least 3 skulls? Confirmed?

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After casting Raining Blood and Blessing the Historian, use the portal to the north top of the stairs in the same room, there is another portal directly in front of the one you exit into the cavern, take that to a path with a chest of goodies. Killing the Historian nets less loot by far.

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Okay, so I think i *****ed up the quest because I took the first skull to the room to the right and the second skull on the door leading to the elven corpse and the vines to climb up to where the second portal and now i have 0 skulls and no way to get any more skulls. Am i missing something or am i just screwed?

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Teleport up in the third portal area to get a chest of goodies

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You can skip the maze entirely and still get the EXP for completing it if you have Braccus Rex's ring

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I used Restoration on the rat in the Definitive edition and that worked.

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I have a caster in my party with the staff [[Commander of the Tides]] equipped. Unfortunately, as of the current version of the game (3.6.29.1697 DE), the skill that this staff grants - [[Arcane Stitch]] - is not recognised as a valid option for dousing the flames tormenting the Historian. Seems wrong considering that the description of said skill explicitly states that it removes [[Necrofire]].

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what about the portals? first one I could port to the dwarf, but nowhere else.

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So I don't know how well the RNG works in this game but testing around this little area here gave me some odd, yet easily manipulative results. With my Luck at 5, I can confirm that you may receive decent loot from one of the 3 Bone Piles below the Historian. From NOT killing the Historian, I was able to generate a Rare gear; however, killing the historian generated an Epic gear instead. Kept reloading and repeating to confirm that they weren't just a "random" one time coincidence. I don't think you lose anything from killing him anyways, 425 XP seems good enough for me.

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You can use Flesh Sacrifice to douse the flames on The Historian, if you don’t have Raining Blood.

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If you don't have a teleporting skill, there is a hidden switch in the bushes to the left of the portal you see in the first room to the right. Stepping on it raise a ladder to the portal allowing you to go through to the elevated switch and collect the skull.

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just a tip if you move the green noxious bulb onto the platform the historian is on after the fire is doused he will heal enough so he cant die

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Using uncanny evasion on the rat will count as a shock. (not sure if all air magic will work but might be worth a shot)

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I found this out by fking about:
The Rat that asks you to shock it can be dealt with by casting rain, and then shocking the water near the rat. This will shock the rat but not kill it XD.

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To put out the Hellfire condition on the Historian.
After my fight in that area, there was a cloud of steam nearby. I teleported the Historian into that cloud and it caused him to stop being on fire. After that I could Bless him.

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So long story short, I have a possible bug for this quest, details are contained below. If anyone can figure out what went wrong, it should probably be made note of.

Does going around to the back before even starting the quest potentially bug it out? Or might it be something else I've done? I went around the back way when I was exploring the island and walked up to the door of the tower, was told I entered the wrong way, then cleared out the tower. Afterwards I went around to the front end of the maze, and the quest started as normal. I got quest updates as I made progress, though admittedly I hadn't used a single skull by the time I made it to the Historian, and I had all but two of them by that point. Finished helping the Historian, got the last remaining skulls, went to the door of the tower, and nothing happens. No dialogue or anything. The quest was still marked as active though. So I reload my save, the quest updates after using two skulls, I use a third, then I try the gargoyle at the tower door again. Still no dialogue or quest update. So I'm not sure where I went wrong, but the fact that I'm getting no dialogue and the quest is unable to be completed seems like it's probably some kind of bug.

Hopefully reloading from before I start the maze and just doing it over will fix it, but I feel like that should be made note of, if anyone has any idea what went wrong. (Also, I do not have Braccus's ring, if that matters at all. I flubbed that up by not immediately breaking Trompdoy's soul jar and just stuffing it into by bag.)

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didnt get the quest

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A way to help the Historian without an elf and blood rain that worked for me: Attack one of your party members until there is blood on the ground, teleport the Historian on the blood, bless it, throw a poison bomb ect. on him so he doesn't die.

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Using Peace of Mind pyro buff on the rat also clears its affliction. gets its a mental debuff...

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how da fat are we supposed to know that its blood rain and bless?

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I only used 1 skull, but collected all 6. When I got to the final gargoyle, he actually denied me a reward, calling me a cheater. Use those skulls if you want the reward.

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I showed the gargolye my Band of Braccus, collected the two skulls near the tower (jimfred and the one behind the tower. Then I spoke to the statue of Braccus Rex to the left of the tower stairs, got mouthy (third option I think?) And he sent me back to the beginning where I could go through as normal. Don't know if I can still get the best reward item yet.

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a little tip for all that couldnt find blood rain. Strip a char of his armor and let another hit him in frond of the stonetable where the historian burns. Teleport the historian on the blood and bless it

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If you don't have wings for the third step summon the cat familiar and swap places with him!

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How do you unlock the door inside the tower?

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You can skip the entire maze by using the teleport skill to port yourself over the unreachable part of the beach, to the right of the illusion cave entrance (north east of the sanctuary). Then you climb the second vines to the right, walk around the tower to it's entrance and done, you get the rewards and can enter the tower without going through the maze.

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There is a true reward of an epic item at the end if done right.
First, stand ont he first piece and get the orb..
Then, go left and get the orb from the second room.. Go back, unlock the room that was initially to your right. Teleport/cloak and dagger/retreat to the foot trigger on the second level near that room. Grab that skull now. If the gargoyle says "the master would be impressed" youre on the right track.
Finally, go as south as you can where the second orb was, and leave through that door.The door gargoyle near a source puddle should congratulate.

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If you have looted the Band of Braccus from Trompdoy in the vault, you can also teleport someone into the maze from close by the entrance to the illusionist's cave. If you enter the maze you will be spoken to by a gargoyle. If you show him the ring you and your party will be instantly teleported to the end.

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