Withermoore's Soul Jar is a Quest in Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Important NPCs
Objectives
- Discover the Forgotten Cell.
- Free and speak with Lord Withermoore.
- Find Withermoore's soul jar in the Ancient Passage.
Walkthrough
- Enter the Caverns
- Play hide & seek with Mody.
- Use a shovel on the mound Mody revealed after.
- Pull the spear out of Withermoore. This requires 12+ Strength or 1+ Telekinesis. You can also attack and destroy the spear.
- After accepting the quest from Withermoore, go to the Fort Joy - Square waypoint, interact with the shrine, and reveal the hidden hatch he mentioned.
- Use the lever to open the doorway into the Holding Cells.
- Before passing the bloodstain on the ground, sneak; walk up and steal the key next to the Magister Houndmaster. This can be done with 0 Sneaking.
- Use the key to unlock the door to the Fort Joy Prison.
- Find and use the hidden lever next to the altar.
- Go down the hatch, then you'll find five soul jars. The one labeled "Supplicant" is the correct one.
- Either destroy the jar there or pick it up and return it to Withermoore. This completes the quest.
Tips & Tricks
- Withermoore's Girdle can be pickpocketed or found on Lord Withermoore's corpse. His corpse will disappear if he has helped to break down the source barrier in Braccus Rex’s Tower, visit his corpse first.
- Destroying the jar rewards 1400 party Experience.
- Refusing to destroy the jar and killing Lord Withermore rewards 200 Experience.
- To acquire 1600 Experience (sum of both actions), you can first refuse to destroy the jar and, once in combat, drop the jar on the ground and destroy it.
AnonymousI had a heck of a time finding the key from the houndmaster. Turns out that during the battle it got thrown to the middle of the floor from an explosion.
- Anonymous
Played 15/7/21 (Definitive Ed)
On tactician difficultly
Pickup withermoor soul jar
Do not destroy it
Take to withermoore where you intially found him
When you talk to him there's an option to choose not to destroy it. I was awarded with 1400exp and then entered battle with him. Received further 200exp for defeating him + withermoore's girdle (belt equip).
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In DE (haven't played any other version to know if it's different in those versions), to find Withermoore, you don't actually have to play multiple games of hide and seek with Mody, nor even have a shovel / a lizard.
Rather, if you examine at the wall in the vicinity of the method of entry listed in the entry, you'll find a small hole in the wall. Interacting with it will usually trigger the narrator into noting that "you're too big to enter it*". And that's it.
However, if you have Beast (or another Dwarf) in your party - and you're in control of said dwarf when you inspect the hole - your Dwarf will simply crawl into it - no questions asked, after which Beast will wryly note that being "compact" can have its benefits.
In any event, once your Dwarf has successfully crawled inside of the walk he'll immediately find himself alone in the room where Lord Withermoore's been speared to the wall. Whether or not you want your Dwarf to talk to him alone is up to you, but - either way - whenever you're ready to leave, just go back to where you entered. There, you'll find an exit. However, instead of crawling back out of the hole from whence he came climbed into, your Dwarf will emerge from a now visible hatch-type of door which will appear on ground next to said hole in the wall. This hatch will obviously allow all non-Dwarf members of your party to freely chillax with Withermoore if they would so choose.
I'm assuming that this is the hatch that's discoverable by playing hide and seek with Mody twice? I'm not sure bc I've never actually bothered with playing any games with those brats - as such, I didn't even know that this was an option. I just usually have more pressing matters at hand than to waste time looking like a pedo.
* [that's what she said]
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I managed to steal the key by using teleportation to move it off the stool and on to the ground near me. It's still worth fighting the guard's though, they're not too tough and you get some loot and you can talk to the NPC they're interrogating - plus there's a hidden way into the nearby cell where there's a couple of nice items.
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there is a small chance to get gloves with +1 thievery from the skeleton with the sword from the first set of skeletons, savescum at your own risk
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You can pick up the jar from the pedestal to put into your inventory and deliver it right to the withermoore himself. You will have a dialogue with him where he would ask you to shatter the jar. You can refuse giving him the jar and upon that you will gain 1,400 points of experience and the fight will begin. The fight can be ended in single turn by placing the jar from the inventory onto the ground and breaking it by attacking, withermoore will instantly die and you will get yet another portion of experience: 1,400 points.
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You can also sneak past the 4 guards, lockpicking the door and getting into the prison.
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amm and also you can get one of the Armor set Braccus Rex . the greaves.. need 15 Wits to interact with the statue and this statue..
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Withermoore's Soul Jar is with the one labeled Withermoore the Supplicant. You use the plaque, it starts the quest dialog. If you select the option to destroy the jar, you instantly get the 1,400 XP. The others are traps - fun fights for XP with skels.
- Anonymous
after i find the Withermoore's Soul Jar then i still can activate the others jars-traps. That shouldnt be allowed it should givining 0 xp i mean what is the point to avoid traps when they are giving you xp?
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So i destroyed the soul jar before i met with withermoore. Got no exp for it. Quest didn't start. Withermoore dead, kid sad
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If you don't have a shovel, there is one in that area, right past the barricades near the first few wrecked boats at about (490, 515).
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ok, so I had same problem, helped the guy, took out spear, found his jar, smashed it, came back and looted his corpse, BUT q was still active in my q log, so I went to Braccus tower, at the source barrier I clicked turn off switch AND... nothing, q was in my q log still (I was reading ppls coments that he should come and help you). SO the problem was that you need to click that switch with char WHO DOES NOT HAVE source points, if u do click without sp, Withermoore will come to help u and finish the q, if u click WITH char who HAS sp then q will be open forever :)
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Unable to complete this quest. When I enter the ancient passage as soon as we pass the second jar covered trap and approach the stairs down to the statue area, toons/camera flies up thru the ceiling. X,Y on map shows toons are moving forward, but they appear to be walking above the ceiling. Broken.
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If the Houndmaster did not have the Prison Key on him, try looking for it on the floor. Just press "ALT" and you should see it.
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We first tought we had a bug in this as well, since we completed the Whitermoor quest as well. Might have something to do with who started the quest. My friend re-entered the jail and went to the door before me and Whitermoor appeared finally o__o So try that I guess?
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Questjournal says "We destroyed Lord Withermoore's Soul Jar, freeing his soul".
But he was not there to help me to lift barrier (what a *****), i did it myself with sourcemagic.
He is just chilling there dead with this sad kid, and now this quest is still in my journal since you can't talk to dead-dead NPCs right and any version of Lord Withermoore who i could talk to to finish this quest is nowhere to be found...
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I broke quest. . . Remove Spear from Withermoore, told him i would help him, then Killed Withermoore, went to pick up his soul jar and it was empty, put empty soul jar in inventory and quest chain still active telling me where to locate his soul jar.
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Everyone having problems with the jar, meanwhile I'm over here unable to get this hidden lever to appear. What the hell?
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I left the jar where it was after interacting with it and upon trying to use it again I received a new option. *place your hand on to the thrumming jar and absorb the soul.*
Upon trying it burned my neck due to the collar stuck on me. So I'm wondering what will happen if I remove the collar and come back.
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I didn't get the Prison Key after killing the Houndmaster so I can't enter the Prison...
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So, this isn't where Withermoore's quest actually ends. Once you escape Fort Joy, you can go to Necromancer's Tower, which is a maze near an Ice Dragon. Once you get to the door at the end, and ONLY if you don't have any source points, Wihermoore comes out, opens the door, and you get some XP and a finished quest.
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Same as other posters, destroyed his jar and went back to find him, but he was just at his usual place, but dead. No help at all! Hope they fix this and the other quest bugs.
- Anonymous
Another broken quest.....the broken quests are more than the working ones
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This kind of bugs are all over the game. Quests are not polished.
If you freed Withermoore, he will help you lift a source barrier at Braccus Rex's Tower. <-- this never took place
"We have left Reaper's Eye behind, without helping Lord Withermoore."
"We destroyed Lord Withermoore's Soul Jar, freeing his soul."
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The jar with his soul in it for me was the Supplicant one. Might vary per game.
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If you can't remove the spear (Me and my friend couldn't, maybe strength related?) you can destroy it.
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If you can't remove the spear (Me and my buddy wasn't able to, was thinking maybe a strength issue) you can also target and attack it
How to get 3k xp (at least 2 character required):
1) Don't destroy the jar, take it with someone in your party
2) Go back to Withermoore, tell him you aren't destroying the jar, talk to him until you get the (END) dialogue option, but DON'T FINISH IT (1.4k xp here)
3) With another character, go away and place the jar on the floor
4) End the dialogue, the battle will start
5) Destroy the jar on the floor, battle will be over (1.6k xp here)
Enjoy 3k xp :)
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