Choose to save Solace Keep instead of dooming it in Avowed during the Our Dreams Divide Us Still main quest for more rewards. Learn what happens in the story and your ending when you choose to open the sluice gates or destroy the winch gears.

Solace Keep Choice Outcomes

Open the Sluice Gates or Destroy the Winch Gears

Choice	Result
Open the Sluice Gates (Save Solace Keep)	Solace Keep will be saved and will remain as a Point of Interest. You can obtain the Councilor's Garb and Councilor's Shoes.
Destroy the Winch Gears (Doom Solace Keep)	Letting Kostya live: Solace Keep will become inaccessible. Killing Kostya: Solace Keep will still be inaccessible but Kostya gets killed, unlocking a specific ending. You can obtain the Councilor's Garb and Councilor's Shoes.

Near the end of the Our Dreams Divide Us Still, you will need to talk with Kostya and be faced with the decision between opening the Sluice Gates to save Solace Keep or destroy the Winch Gears to doom it.

This won't have any lasting choice in the gameplay once you enter the Garden in The Heart of the Living Lands, as it is a point of no return. However, any choice you make here will affect your ending screen.

Our Dreams Divide Us Still Walkthrough

Should You Save or Doom Solace Keep?

Saving Solace Keep is the Best Choice for More Rewards

Choosing to save Solace Keep is recommended as you get more rewards like Councilor's Garb and Councilor's Shoes by killing Kostya and is a requirement to get the best ending regarding Solace Keep.

Dooming Solace Keep Makes It Inaccessible

Dooming Solace Keep will lock you out of the Solace Keep area. However, the important NPCs and features, including the Bounty Board and merchants, will all relocate to a nearby camp and still be available.

Dooming Solace Keep and Killing Kostya is the Worst Option Storywise

During your conversation with Kostya, you have the option to fight him by choosing the Unsheathe Weapon dialogues. This is the worst option that you could take as it doesn't make sense storywise to agree dooming Solace Keep then kill the person who wants that outcome.

However, you can still loot the Councilor's Garb and Councilor's Shoes from Kostya's dead body.

Solace Keep Endings

7 Different Solace Keep Endings

Ending	Unlock Condition
	① Let Kostya Live ② Doom Solace Keep ③ Have the Living Lands become a colony of Aedyr. / Stand with Lodwyn and the Steel Garrote but don't renounce Sapadal.
	① Let Kostya Live ② Doom Solace Keep ③ Attempt a grefram.
	Good Outcome: ① Let Kostya Live ② Doom Solace Keep ③ Fight for a united Living Lands.
	① Kill Kostya ② Doom Solace Keep ③ Any ending choice where Lodwyn is defeated.
	① Kill Kostya ② Save Solace Keep ③ Have the Living Lands become a colony of Aedyr. / Stand with Lodwyn and the Steel Garrote but don't renounce Sapadal.
	① Kill Kostya ② Save Solace Keep ③ Attempt a grefram.
	Good Outcome: ① Kill Kostya ② Save Solace Keep ③ Fight for a united Living Lands.

Saving Solace Keep and Fight for a United Living Lands is the Best Ending

Saving Solace Keep and fighting for a united Living Lands is the best ending for everyone involved as the Mihala learns to open Solace Keep for outsiders. Mihala also slowly learns compromise in her negotiations with the other groups in the Living Lands.

Another favorable ending is to let Kostya live, which dooms Solace Keep, and to fight for a united Living Lands.

List of All Endings

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