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Dragon's Dogma 2 (DD2)

Flickering Shadows Walkthrough

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Flickering Shadows is a main quest in Dragon's Dogma 2 (DD2). Read our guide for a walkthrough on how to start and complete the Flickering Shadows main quest!

How to Complete Flickering Shadows

  1. Talk to the Pathfinder in the Mercantile Ward
  2. Speak with Ambrosius at Olta'Battahl Coast
  3. Collect Blue Crystal Shards for Ambrosius
  4. Go to Bay Waywide Shrine
  5. Go to the Reverent Shrine and Talk to Luz
  6. Speak to the Rivage Elder in Harve Village

Talk to the Pathfinder in the Mercantile Ward

Dragons Dogma 2 Enter Bakbattahl

Upon your arrival in Bakbattahl, go to the Mercantile Ward. The Pathfinder will initiate a conversation with you, and will inform you of a lab that holds godsway secrets.

Speak with Ambrosius at Olta'Battahl Coast

Dragons Dogma 2 Ambrosius Location

Ambrosius is located at the Olta'Battahl Coastline, northeast of the Mercantile Ward. Save him as he's being attacked by a griffin and other aerial monsters on the shore.

Collect Blue Crystal Shards for Ambrosius

Dragons Dogma 2 Blue Crsytal Shard

Pick up any of the blue crystal shards found along the shore near where Ambrosius is standing. There's a lot located here and you only need a couple, so you shouldn't have a problem finding these.

Go to Bay Waywide Shrine

Dragon

Go to the area north of where Ambrosius is, in a place called the Bay Waywide Shrine. Head there and talk to the Dragonforged. Speak with him and select the dialogue option Tell me of the godsway.

Go to the Reverent Shrine and Talk to Luz

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Head to the next marked location at the Reverent Shrine in the Enoa'Battahl Forest. Speak with the floating spirit of the Oracle Luz and select the dialogue option Tell me the godsway's secret. After this, you'll unlock the Trickster Vocation.

How to Unlock Trickster and Best Skills

Speak to the Rivage Elder in Harve Village

Dragon

You can pay Luz 50 Gold to get information on where to go next, and she will tell you to go to Harve Village. Seek the Rivage Elder near Stormwind Cave, south of Harve Village, to trigger a cutscene, marking the completion of the quest.

How to Start Flickering Shadows

Complete Nation of the Lambent Flame

Dragon

Completing the main quest, Nation of the Lambent Flame, will automatically add the Flickering Shadows quest to your quest list.

Nation of the Lambent Flame Walkthrough

Flickering Shadows Location

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Flickering Shadows Quest Summary

How to Unlock and Rewards

Quest Type Main Quest
Location Bakbattahl
Unlock Condition Assigned automatically after clearing the quest Nation of the Lambent Flame
Quest Giver Menella
Rewards XP: 3,200
Gold: 25,000
Trickster Vocation

Dragon's Dogma 2 Related Guides

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All Quests and Unlock Conditions

Quests With Story Progression

# Story Quests
1 Gaoled Awakening
2 Tale's Beginning
3 In Dragon's Wake
4 One-Eyed Interloper
5 Seat of the Sovran
6 Monster Culling
7 Disa's Plot
8 The Caged Magistrate
9 The Stolen Throne
10 The Nameless Village
11 An Unsettling Encounter
12 Feast of Deception
13 Nation of the Lambent Flame
14 Flickering Shadows
15 Convergence
16 A New Godsway
17 The Guardian Gigantus
18 Legacy

True Ending Quest Guides

# Post Game Quests
1 Dreams Apart
2 Halls of the First Dawn
3 A Scholarly Pursuit

Quest Guides

Other Quest Guides
Best Side Quests Worth Doing Vernworth Quests Recommended Order
Timed Quests

List of All Quests

All Side Quests
Clash and Conclusion A Noble Exchange
Crossing in Shadow Steeled Resolve, Blazing Forge
Brothers Brave and Timid Out of the Forest, Into the Forge
The Ailing Arborheart Tolled to Rest
‘Twixt a Rock and a Hard Place A Game of Wits
A Poisonous Proposal Masked Correspondence
Welcome to Battahl Tensions on the Highroad
Till Death Do Us Part Mercy Among Thieves
A Magisterial Amenity Spellbound
A Veil of Gossamer Clouds A Candle in the Storm
A Trial of Archery The Sorcerer's Appraisal
Dulled Steel, Cold Forge The Phantom Oxcart
Shadowed Prayers Home is Where the Hearth Is
Short-Sighted Ambition Trouble on the Cape
Put a Spring in Thy Step The Sotted Sage
Readvent of Calamity Gift of the Bow
A Case of Sculptor's Block The Gift of Giving
Saint of the Slums House of the Blue Sunbright
Prey for the Pack Hunt for the Jadeite Orb
Beren's Final Lesson A Beggar's Tale
A Place to Call Home The Provisioner's Plight
Oxcart Courier Claw Them Into Shape
The Arisen's Shadow The Ornate Box
Scaly Invaders Medicament Predicament
Every Rose Has Its Thorn The Heel of History
Nesting Troubles Vocation Frustration
Ordeals of a New Recruit

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