The Key to Freedom |
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 Almira, breaking the Covenant |
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| Location | Nameless Isle |
| Suggested Level | n/a |
| Next Quest | n/a |
| Previous Quest | Almira's Request |
The Key to Freedom is a Quest in Divinity: Original Sin II. The Swornbreaker is a powerful weapon, but is valuable to those who seek to be free from the grasp of the God-King... Will you use it or gift it?
Important NPCs
The Key to Freedom Objectives
- Find the Haft and the Blade of the Swornbreaker.
- Craft the Swornbreaker.
- Give it to Almira.
The Key to Freedom Walkthrough
There are three parts necessary to forge the Swornbreaker. The schematic can be learned from Ryker at Stonegarden, Almira at Paradise Downs (she moves to your ship if you help her with her quest), or from simply using the tablet itself. Note that you do not have to learn the recipe in order to craft it; simply combine all 3 pieces and it will craft the weapon just fine.
The Haft can be found in the Sallow Man's war room, in an Ornate chest:
The blade can be found at the hidden Arena, past the portal which is found behind the locked door in the Teacher's hall of the Academy:
The picture above shows the portal to the hidden Arena, which is located behind the locked door in the Teacher's hall in the Academy.
Now, with all 3 pieces in hand, simply craft the Swornbreaker by combining the Shaft, the Blade, and the Tablet, as shown in the picture below:
The Swornbreaker is crafted based on the level of the crafter, so if your crafter is level 25, the Swornbreaker will be level 25. If your crafter is level 19, the Swornbreaker will be level 19.
With the Swornbreaker in hand, you can choose to keep it, but you have to give it to Almira to complete the quest. Speak to Almira, give it to her, and you will be rewarded with 41,850XP along with a choice of Divine-quality loot. You can get another Swornbreaker later on in Arx, so it's not a huge issue, unless you would like 2 characters to wield Swornbreakers.
Either way, upon giving it to Almira, she will promise to help you in the final fight, and the quest will be completed at this point.
Rewards:
- 41,850XP and a choice of Divine-quality loot upon quest completion.
Tips:
- You can reuse the same Swornbreaker to free both Windego and Almira. First give the Swornbreaker to Windego. After she uses it, loot the broken Swornbreaker from her corpse and take it to Almira. She will happily accept it and the quest is completed (it may require that you first try to repair it at a trader - which will fail - and then take it to Almira).
- After handing the completed Swornbreaker to Almira as part of the quest, but before finishing dialogue with her, the weapon can be purchased or pickpocketed from her inventory to reacquire it. Once you end the conversation (at which point you're awarded the choice of loot) the window to reacquire the weapon from her is closed.
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hey hello everyone, i just get it right in nameless island, i used it to break the sworn with the god king and then give it broken to Almira, i completed the quest and she used it (DE)
- Anonymous
In DE at least it is possible to steal the Swornbraker back from Windego before ending her dialogue. It requires 8 Thievery as the item costs 9410 and at 7 one can only steal a max of 9400. I had a set of Gloves of Acquisition (+2 Thievery) and a random belt that gave +1. Had to cast Clear Mind to be able to equip the gloves, but it worked well enough.
- Anonymous
In DOS2:DE the switch inventory and drop method didn't work. The Swornbreaker went right threw the deck of the Lady Vengeance and was lost. Instead, after switching to a character out of dialogue with Almira, I took the SB out of the inventory of the character in dialogue with Almira, went below decks and placed it in the Storage Chest. Switched back to character in dialogue with Almira and gave her the SB via dialogue and received the XP. While still in dialogue with Almira I used another character to sneak and pickpocket Almira, but the SB was not in her inventory, nor was it available to buy before of after dialogue was finished.
- Anonymous
Before giving the swornbreaker to Almira in the dialogue have another character take it out of the inventory and drop it on the floor. Then proceed with the dialogue. Afterwards you can use it on yourself if you accepted the covenant to remove the sworn tag and retain the bonuses. Then you can give the broken swornbreaker to Fletcher Corbin Day on the ship BEFORE leaving to Arx via the arena of the one quest. It will repair itself when you land in Arx and you can just rebuy it.
- Anonymous
Playing Def Edition and stealing it doesnt' work since it triggers the gold threshold, and buying it while another character is talking doesn't seem to work. Having one character take it mid dialogue and put it on the ground did work
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
You do not have to fight the enemies in the arena, just steal the main guardians core thingy with a thief character
- Anonymous
Sorry, I'm in Arx. I didn't give the tablet to Almira, and I craft the swornbreaker. Now, the quest tell me that I should give her the tablet, but I have only swornbreaker! If I try to speak with her, there aren't useful dialog options. Someone can help me?
- Anonymous
You can buy back the swornbreaker from Almira while you're in the middle of talking/giving Almira the swornbreaker.
To repair it, sell it to Fletcher Corbin Day (not sure if other traders like Tarquin or Almira herself might work, maybe as long as they're part of the ship) before moving onto act 4 (Arx), it will be repaired and available for purchase although a little pricey 30-40k.
That selling trick also works for any piece of weapon/armor that you want to scale to level 18 when going to Arx.
- Anonymous
(Playing DE with no mods except 4 relics of Rivellon)
I swore to the God-King, then crafted Swornbreaker, but when equipping instead of my 2h haxe the dmg fell heavily. It appears that the weapon has no requirement except being sworn, and so doesn't benefit from your Strength - or any stat - when computing damage... Is this only happening to me ? If not, is this a recent change, as this is mentioned nowhere in the wiki - actually the only visible stats shown here specify the contrary...
Just so you know, I tried various ways to modify Swornbreaker's stats, namely crafting it before/after swearing to the God-king, shenanigans with Almira with/without breaking the oath, and combinations of these. Everytime I ended up with a non-strength-requirement Swornbreaker dealing less damage than a rare lvl 14 2h axe....
- Anonymous
talk to almira while having the swornbreaker in your inventory, pass the swornbreaker to another character's inventory, drop the swornbreaker (not sure if needed), go back to the character that is talking with almira and click the option to give swornbreaker to her, item dup
- Anonymous
I have all 3 parts, but i can't craft this item. But one is a sword blade not scythe. Wrong peice?
- Anonymous
Even in the newest patch, there is a way to keep a MAX durability Swornbreaker(Sword) while releasing yourself from God-King and also completing Almira's quest. 1. Get the Swornbreaker and equip it on the Sworn character. 2. Talk to almira with a separate character, and get the dialogue to the "give Swornbreaker" option. 3. Use SwornBreaker(skill) on the Sworn charcter and quickly also do the "give Swornbreaker" option. This will break your oath and also give a full durability Swornbreker(Sword) to Almira. 4. When at the "I will stand alongside of you" dialogue, buyback the Swornbreaker you gave, it should have full durabilty. 5. Continue dialogue and Almira will be released from her promise as well.
You can just initiate the conversation with her, throw swornbreaker on the ground, then hit "give it to her" and the quest closes out. Then pick up your free swornbreaker from the ground.
- Anonymous
To complete the Swornbreaker quests properly you need three of them one for Almira one for Sadha and one for Windego ...as there are only two of them in the game if you want a third the only way is to get it while talking to Almira,i just couldn't get the option of sending it to storage to work but selling it to Almira while in dialogue and buying it back worked perfect...at the end of the day though the weapon was so powerful o`m not sure giving all three out was wise
- Anonymous
There's a way to get the Swornbreaker back from Almira without downgrading its level (i.e., buying back): 1. Press [F1] to select your main character, or whatever your keybinding is, then talk to Almira but don't select any of the dialogue options yet. 2. Press [F2] to select another character then go to inventory, right click the Swornbreaker, and store it on Lady Vengeance. 3. Press [F1] again and give her the Swornbreaker, completing the quest. 4. Open to the storage chest on the Lady Vengeance, and enjoy your hard-earned Swornbreaker!
- Anonymous
Divinity's wiki is honestly one of the worst I've seen. Almira has a quest that ends with you giving her the tablet, she doesn't give you any new quest to gather the rest of the parts, nor did she actually go to the ship, at least not for me. Now I am wondering wether or not I can actualy do this quest when/if I get it seeing as I don't have tablet anymore.
- Anonymous
If you give her the swornbreaker, you can immediately buy it back during this dialogue. It disappears if you leave the conversation (she consumes it). This completes her quest but also gives you the swornbreaker for uses elsewhere.
- Anonymous
If you saved Almira and gave her the tablet you simply need the two pieces.
Going back to her on lady vengance in act 3 with both pieces will give you an option for you to take back the tablet and craft the weapon yourself or hand her the pieces and complete the quest.
- Anonymous
Now the Swornbreaker need the character to have Sworn Tag in order to equip it.
Should be updated in the recent patch
- Anonymous
Too bad Almira's quest bugged for me in Act 2 and she doesn't appear in Act 3 for me -_- because the game thinks I didn't help her even though I did.
- Anonymous
For everyone looking for the tablet ,it's under books and keys.
If you wish to complete the quest AND keep the swornbreaker, simply buy it off of her right after handing it in to Almira (don't leave the dialogue window!). It's pretty expensive though.
- Anonymous
I save 3 piece for lv 20 crafting and later on in Arx Almira is nowhere to be found, when leaving hall of echo she still on Lady Vengeance and then disappear.I have the second SB lv13 which is found in Arx but i can't complete this quest.HELP(if you want to keep the SB or the schematic just before turn in dialog use another character and throw the SB or schematic out of inventory and pick it up later.I think it a bug)
- Anonymous
Is it just me or am I missing a key for the ornate chest? I already killed Sallow and Windego, but I can't get the Haft. Anyone else have the same problem?
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- Anonymous
Wtf happened? I got schemtic, two parts, but I have already gave my tablet to Almira before, how t h can I put them together again?
- Anonymous
What does the weapon actually do???????? NO one mentions that :/
- Anonymous
If you hold up on giving The Swornbreaker to Almira till after the isle and before Arx you will get to keep it so long as you have it equipped on a character that is not the main character (needs more testing)
Is this some special tablet I need.
I'm currently just starting at the Arx and have both the blade and shaft, but no tablet.
- Anonymous
fk, i didn't check that place out, figured i'd do it after the arena fight, guess i lost my chance to get it.
- Anonymous
I Dont have the schematic and am already in Arx. Is it too late for me to get it now?
- Anonymous
I have both parts, but talking to Almira doesn't trigger any specific dialogue. Bug or am I missing something?
- Anonymous
I have a blade (in the academy, loot from eternal guardian), anyone knows where the second part is?
this is the best order i found to share the swornbreaker:
1) craft swornbreaker or get it from the kemm vault
2) start with almira. drop the swornbreaker mid-conversation or buy it back immediately after giving it
3) next to to sadha. drop the swornbreaker mid-conversation
4) finish up with windego which breaks it
5) use the other one on yourself
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