FORT JOY: DIVINITY ORIGINAL SIN 2 GUIDE

Congratulations! You have survived THE HOLD (in case you haven’t made it past the tutorial deck, make sure you check out our guide for it first). You are now in Fort Joy, one of the largest areas in Divinity Original Sin 2. New dangers, foes, and friends are waiting!

We’ve put together the most comprehensive Fort Joy walkthrough, together with a detailed map for unexpected locations and extra tips for all encounters. Enjoy! 🙂

Ok guys, let’s start this Fort Joy walkthrough. Be warned, this guide is pretty long! We added markers for every important Fort Joy map location, and you can click on them to be sent to the map.

Note that in this game, you will encounter different quests like in the stages at the prison and my favorite, the Elven Caverns.

The beach is where you will wake up after your brush with death. There are a few things to take a look at if you are into exploring the world, including a statue of Braccus Rex just to your east. You should also probably head to this statue to make sure you get the waypoint. Though you will not be coming to this particular location often, it is nice to have for a few items we will get a little later on.

Just south of the beach, you will encounter two voidspawn who apparently survived the shipwreck. They are pretty easy to notice as they are both standing beside a pretty significant pool of blood and the corpse of magister Jalen. Kill them both and loot the area.

Further south from the Voidlings, assuming you have the DLC installed, you will find the brave squirrel knight, Sir Lora. He will follow you throughout the game and have a minor but amusing impact on the game itself. He doesn’t really help in any significant way and will most likely get himself killed. Luckily, even if he dies, he will stick with you. So don’t worry too much if he shuffles off the mortal coil.

Here you will find the first companion you can take with you, the Red Prince. You can also choose to murder him and take his equipment, but if you do that, you don’t ever have the option of taking him along again. So take him along or not; it is your choice. If you have him join your group, it will begin the quest, The Red Prince/Redemption.

A little ways east of the Red Prince, you may encounter a black cat. If you keep it alive until you leave Fort Joy, it will give you a pretty neat skill and will be a summonable creature for you. If it dies, it is gone forever. It is also very difficult to keep safe because it seems to love running through fire and poison. If it dies, I wouldn’t worry too much, but if you are like me and hate to see cute fluffy animals die, try to keep it alive as long as possible.

Here you will find Trice, one of the children who were on the boat with you. She was also one of the children on the life raft that guilt-trips you into going to help the playable NPCs while the ship is under the attack of a Kraken. She will thank you for helping to save her and either give you some adulation for going to save the NPCs or admonish you for not doing so. She doesn’t have much use otherwise.

Here you will find Fane, crouching near a pool of poison. He will also be carefully removing the face from a human corpse, so that’s a thing. He will also let you know that he is an “Eternal,” which is an ancient race that has apparently gone missing. He was sealed in a tomb and this kept him safe from the disappearance of his people. You can recruit him into your party and I would recommend doing so. He has one of the coolest impacts on both the Main Story and Side Stories. If you have him join your group, you will begin the quest, Fane.

When you are on the quest The Teleporter, you will be led here by Gawin after you liberate the teleportation gloves from the Crocolisks. He will ask you to teleport him across the gap, presumably to freedom. Of course he had no intention of actually helping you escape, but luckily he will leave you with one of the most useful items in the early game, the teleportation gloves. So it isn’t a complete waste to help him. This will also end the quest, The Teleporter.

This is the entrance to Fort Joy proper. There are two ways you can go about getting into the Joy. The first way is just to approach the front gate and watch the cutscene, after which you will be able to enter the Fort with no issue. The second way is through a ladder just to the west of the main gate. I recommend this route as it will give you the ability to have a great fight with a ton of experience later on. Either way, once you are in Joy, there are a lot of things to explore and a lot of people to talk to.

When you are around level five or six, you will run out of things to do before you are forced to leave Fort Joy. Your confrontation with Dallis and Alexander has to take place before you actually leave the Fort and enter the Hollow Marsh, so when you feel ready, prepare for a really rough battle. I am not going to provide a battle strategy for this fight. There are many such strategies on the Internet that you can find. I will simply break down what you are going to be facing.

Dallis and Alexander are both level eight. Do not take either of them lightly. Luckily, you only have to kill one of them before both will leave the fight. You should focus fire on either Alexander or Dallis first. Unfortunately, they are not the only enemies you will have to contend with. Two level eight Gheists called the Hammer’s Pet will also be present in this battle. They hit extremely hard. Good luck. If you can do this fight, you will get a lot of experience and an achievement if you remove Alexander from combat first. I should also note that you have to initiate combat before they speak to you; otherwise, Alexander and Dallis both leave with the Gheists, which basically ends any challenge in the fight.

Now, if you did decide to do the “Kill Alexander and/or Dallis route,” unfortunately, Magister Borris will have been caught in the crossfire. If you have Ifan in your group, he will want a specific note off of Borris’s body to continue his side quest chain. Borris will also have a key that can be used on the gate at (14).

There are a couple of people around this area to talk to:

Magister Yarrow: She will ask you if you have seen a large inmate by the name of Migo. This will start the quest, The Murderous Gheist.

Fara: Just to the south of Yarrow, you will find Fara, a grieving mother who is looking for her missing daughter. She will not give you the quest if you speak with her as an elf, so use another character to do so. You should also ask for her daughter’s doll, which she will provide. After that, if you ask for the doll again, she will not be able to find it. This shows that she has mental health concerns. She will also not accept that her daughter is dead after you obtain that news from Jeth. Note: This used to be part of a quest called Every Mother’s Nightmare, but it has been removed from the game in the definitive edition. It was never finished in the initial release either.

Jeth: He will tell you that Fara’s daughter was killed by Voidwoken a month prior and that her daughter had never even been to Fort Joy. Fara has gone mad with grief.

There is a trio of gamblers here who will try to sucker you into playing. Though you will have a pretty good hand, you will lose. You can accept your loss and leave or you can fight and kill the gamblers. A better plan is to avoid this entire conversation until after you have spoken to Doctor Leste and Dain at (20). Once you have obtained the sparkler card, you can go back and win against the gamblers. They will not be particularly happy about losing and will attack you. Kill them and loot their bodies.

A woman named Myra will be here. If your leader is Ifan Ben-Mezd, she will initiate contact with you by faking choking and then accusing you of murder. You can choose whichever option you want in the conversation. She isn’t super important to anything. You can also try to talk to her again with Ben-Mezd but she will run away. If you talk to her with another character, you can ask if she needs help. She is having some sort of collar-related panic attack though and you won’t be able to solve her problems.

In this clearing, you will encounter several merchants and some other people of import. Most of them have a set patrol path so you might have to search a tiny bit to find them, but they will be around here somewhere.

Gawin: He offers you a chance of escape if you will just go with him alone. But first, he needs you to retrieve an item that will fuel your escape. This item is a pair of gloves that will allow you to teleport him out. He does mention that the gloves are under the watchful gaze of a few Crocodilians, which you are definitely going to have to fight in order to get the gloves. He also sells Aerotheurge spells. So just keep that in mind. This encounter will start the quest, The Teleporter.

Once you have the gloves in question, he will tell you to follow him. Travel to area (7), where he will ask you to teleport him down to the tree trunk. Do so, and he will teleport you to him. You will then teleport him across the gap, where he will abandon you. It turns out he is a jerk.

Laslor: He won’t have much to say unless you talk to him with Beast or Lohse in your group. If you have these characters, some songs will be sung. If you have Lohse in your group in particular, the dwarf will recognize her and ask her for a song. She will begin to play, but things will go awry. Something is clearly wrong with Lohse regarding her musical talents. Something evil does not want her to sing.

Saam is A lizardman who is desperately trying to diffuse a volatile situation after he told Baladir his wife might be better off dead than in the care of the Magisters. Baladir does not take kindly to this and straight-up kills Saam. You can loot him, of course.

Baladir is A grieving human who is in the process of burying his wife. He is having an argument with Saam regarding how lucky his wife is to be dead. This inevitably ends with a knife to the throat and a dead Saam. If you talk with him further, you will discover that he is building a coffin for his wife and that she would have jokingly complained about the construction quality. The man is clearly grieving. He doesn’t have much to say after that.

There are a few things you are going to want to interact with and people you are going to want to talk to. I will, however, hazard a warning here. If you chose to skip the encounter at the gate to Fort Joy, you are going to want to stay clear of that area so that you do not trigger the event by accident.

Lohse: The first person you are probably going to want to talk to is Lohse, who survived the boat’s destruction and has made herself at home. She also has a few concerning demonic moments that may make you rethink bringing her along in your group, but I would recommend you do so. Her side quest is one of my favorites in the game. She is also a very amusing character. If you have her join your group, you will start the quest, Lohse.

Statue of the Divine: This is another waypoint. You don’t necessarily have to click on it, but if you want the full immersive atmosphere of the game, you should do so. After you have talked to Withermoore in the Elven Cave, you will also find a hidden button here that will open hatch to the map Fort Joy—Underground Tunnel.

Ifan Ben-Mezd: This lone-wolf operative fills the mercenary with a heart of gold. He is in Fort Joy for a specific reason and to complete a specific task. I really enjoy his personality and his side-quest, so I would recommend bringing him along. If you read the note in his inventory, you will also begin the quest Ifan Ben Mezd/A Wolf Alone.

In this tent, you will find a woman, Mona, who is suffering some form of horrible illness. If you get too close to her, you will also get sick, although yours will be temporary. She also sells Necromancy books. The disease will last ten turns, which isn’t a huge amount of time, but I would recommend that you don’t get into any fights until it wears off. 

There is also a nearby gate with a few Magisters guarding it. You can initiate combat and kill them, but hold off for now.

Griff and Amyro: Here you will find one of the major players in Fort Joy, Griff. You will be able to find out more about his past later in the game, but from first impressions, you will probably find him to be a scummy opportunist who has used his limited authority and control of food to become a pseudo-tyrant. You can speak with him about things going on at Fort Joy, but you won’t get much out of him until you speak to his prisoner, Amyro.

Once you speak with Amyro, you will discover that Griff has had a crate of citrus go missing. Amyro is the alleged culprit, but you can offer to look into this crime to make sure that Griff has the right person. You can get into a fight if you try to force Griff to release the Elf without finding the fruit, so in the interests of keeping the peace for now, leave and investigate the crime. This will give you the quest: The Imprisoned Elf.

After you have obtained the oranges from Stingtail, he will free Amyro, who will tell you that he knows a way out of the Joy but that he is also the protector of a young Elven girl named Saheila. He asks for your help in getting word to Saheila’s people on the mainland that she is still in Fort Joy. He will also give you an amulet, which you cannot wear yet due to the Source Collar. This will start the quest Saheila’s People.

This is where you will find Beast, one of the playable NPCs you can recruit. He is a surly Dwarf who can make a pretty good addition to your team. He is probably my least-used character so while I was playing through the game for this guide, I decided to bring him along with me. If you have him join your group, you will start the quest, Beast.

You will also find a crab in the area known as Septa the Ineffable. This crab is apparently a source of great might and it may know a way out of the Fort. Unfortunately, it chooses not to help you in any way. It is kind of a jerk, honestly.