Magran's Fires

Magran's Fires are optional challenges you can select when starting a new game in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (by clicking the head at the bottom of the main menu). These generally make the game more difficult and are aimed at veteran players or those looking to replicate the achievement-related challenges found in Pillars of Eternity and The White March - Part I + The White March - Part II.

Whilst in-game, enabled challenges will be listed at the bottom of the difficulty menu in the settings.

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Miscellaneous[ | ]

Name	Effect
Triple Crown	Expert Mode, Trial of Iron, Path of the Damned Expert Mode disables a number of "helper" features in the game. Players who want to rely on their own faculties and intuition while playing the game should play Expert Mode. In Trial of Iron mode, only one save file is kept for the entire play-through. If the party is killed, the file is deleted and you must start again. This option can't be changed in-game. Path of the Damned throws the largest number of enemies against the player, makes enemies more powerful, and utilizes the most devious AI tactics. Level Scaling (Only Scale Upwards) Scenes will only scale their level upwards to keep pace with players who arrive at a higher level than intended. Levels will never be adjusted downwards.
Solo	Cannot recruit companions, sidekicks, or adventurers.

God challenges[ | ]

Icon	Name	Effect
	Eothas' Challenge	Complete each critical path quest by specific dates or the game ends.
	Galawain's Challenge	Beasts gain random powerful effects.
	Berath's Challenge	Any party member Knocked Out for 10 seconds (Real-Time with Pause) or 3 rounds (Turn-Based) is Killed. Cannot flee from combat.
	Magran's Challenge	The game cannot be paused. In turn-based mode, party turns pass automatically after 10 sec. The game time cannot be slowed.
	Abydon's Challenge	Equipment will degrade over time and must be repaired via the Enchanting interface.
	Skaen's Challenge	-7m Fog Reveal Radius at night and indoors. Held light sources increase Fog Reveal Radius
	Ondra's Challenge	Storms in the Deadfire are numerous and more dangerous. Ships in the Deadfire are more experienced and sail faster in pursuit. All enemy captains and crew members get +1 to their rank, however only very few ships actually get faster.
	Rymrgand's Challenge	Food items spoil after a certain amount of time.
	Hylea's Challenge	Vela follows the Watcher and must be kept alive or the game ends.
	Woedica's Challenge	Per Encounter resources become Per Rest Party health no longer regenerates between combats. While camping, only "Prepared Meals" will recover health, injuries, and resources.
	Wael's Challenge	Almost all numbers and stats are hidden (with the exception being item count, party character Attributes, Skill, and Level)
	The Ultimate	Requires Beast of Winter/Seeker Slayer Survivor/Forgotten Sanctum to enable. Activates all challenges and disables cheats, mods, and Berath's Blessings. Must defeat all major enemies and bosses in battle or the game ends.

Details[ | ]

Eothas' challenge dates[ | ]

During Eothas' challenge, the player must complete the following quests before specific dates. These are always a set amount of days from the start of the game, noting that Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire begins on the 18th of Mid Spring (Majprima), 2828 AI, at hour 6/7. To assist, a timer is shown in the top right of the screen, and the date of completion is shown in the journal. The hour of completion is always hour 6.

Quest	Days to complete	Completion date
To Hunt a God	5 days	3 Deep Spring (Fonprima), 2828 AI
The Veins of Eora	30 days	8 Late Spring (Tarprima), 2828 AI
A Distant Light	30 days	8 Late Spring (Tarprima), 2828 AI
He Waits in Fire	55 days	10 Early Summer (Préëstu), 2828 AI
The Coming Storm	80 days	15 Mid Summer (Majestu), 2828 AI
The City Lost to Time	80 days	15 Mid Summer (Majestu), 2828 AI

Galawain's challenge effects[ | ]

While Galawain's Challenge is active all enemy Beasts gain one of the following effects at random:

Icon	Name	Effects
	Accelerated	+35% Action Speed
	Bullish	Attack Targets (when scoring a hit with an attack): 0.8m Push Self: Attacks Interrupt with weapons
	Exalted	Brilliant, Courageous, Energized, Intuitive, Robust, Swift
	Hardened	+1 Armor Rating, +25 Max Health
	Prowling	Invisible (reapplies on kill)
	Reflecting	Deal 30% of incoming damage as Raw Damage to attackers
	Unstoppable	Immune to Might Afflictions, Dexterity Afflictions, Constitution Afflictions, Intellect Afflictions, Perception Afflictions, Resolve Afflictions, Cannot be interrupted
	Vampiric	50% of incoming damage converted to healing
	Vengeful	+3 All Power Levels
	Volatile	AoE (on unconcious/death): 37-48 in 8m radius.

Abydon's challenge wear[ | ]

When Abydon's challenge is enabled, armor, weapon, and shield items equipped by the party are able to wear and take damage from use. Every time the character takes any damage, 1 point of wear is dealt to all currently equipped items (excluding non-armor/weapons/shields, and weapon sets that are not active). After a certain amount of wear, one of three item mods are added to the item, each representing a certain level of degradation. When this occurs, text is shown on the screen e.g. "Armor/Shield/Weapon Damaged!", a notice is logged to the combat log "{0} was damaged.", and an indicator appears over the item in the inventory:

Damaged items may be repaired via the enchanting interface, costing a fixed amount of plus a percentage of the shop/full value of the item (this, as with most enchantments, is doubled if the item is a two-handed weapon). Repairs may not be made during combat. When an item is repaired, its wear is reset to zero, and the currently-applied damage mod is cleared.

Once the item's wear goes beyond a threshold, the item is destroyed forever and is replaced with a broken item in the same slot. Broken items have no stats, no value, and may only be unequipped. When this occurs, text is shown on the screen e.g. "Armor/Shield/Weapon Broken!", a notice is logged to the combat log "{0} was destroyed.", and an indicator appears over the now-destroyed item in the inventory:

Quest items can be damaged, but cannot be broken.

By default the current wear of an item is hidden, however the console command ToggleDurabilityDebug can be freely used if needed (even without IRoll20s).

Type	Broken threshold	Broken item	Damage mods
Type	Broken threshold	Broken item	Wear	Mod	Repair cost
Armor	≥ 140	Broken Armor	≥ 60 < 90	Minor Damage: -1 Armor Rating	150 + 10%
			≥ 90 < 120	Moderate Damage: -2 Armor Rating	200 + 15%
			≥ 120 < 140	Near Broken: -3 Armor Rating	250 + 20%
Shields	≥ 115	Broken Shield	≥ 45 < 70	Minor Damage: -2 Shield Deflection	100 + 10%
			≥ 70 < 95	Moderate Damage: -4 Shield Deflection	150 + 15%
			≥ 95 < 115	Near Broken: -6 Shield Deflection	200 + 20%
Weapons	≥ 70	Broken Weapon	≥ 30 < 45	Minor Damage: -4 Accuracy, -15% Damage, -1 Penetration	100 + 10%*
			≥ 45 < 60	Moderate Damage: -8 Accuracy, -30% Damage, -2 Penetration	150 + 15%*
			≥ 60 < 70	Near Broken: -12 Accuracy, -45% Damage, -3 Penetration	200 + 20%*

*Resulting value is doubled if the weapon is two-handed.

Rymrgand's challenge spoil times[ | ]

While Rymrgand's challenge is active, food and drink items will spoil after a certain amount of time (after being added to the stash). These times have been listed below. Keep in mind that 1 day in-game is 27 hours, and that the game speed is 24x real time (1 hour in-game takes 2.5 minutes in real time).

Spoil time		Food and drink items
In-game	Real time	Food and drink items
378 hours (14 days)	15 hours, 45 minutes	Ale Arrack Daibō o Osa Ekkevít Forgetful Night Grog Hardtack Hylea's Bounty Lager Mead Meppu Midnight Mead Murkbrew Rice Wine Rum Rymsjódda Lager Saucco Vrer Chiora Wael's Wind Water White Ynefer
189 hours (7 days)	7 hours, 52 minutes, 30 seconds	Candied Nuts Fire Kelp Khapa Leaf Palm Stone Palohe Nuts Rice Taar Loaf
81 hours (3 days)	3 hours, 22 minutes, 30 seconds	Cuttlefish Egg Fresh Fruit Glacial Ysae Hagfish Koīki Fruit Luminous Lobster Milk Mohorā Meat Murkberries Oysters Pork Poultry Roe Aged Shark Meat Silverfin Swordfish Tahiwa Snapper Vegetables
27 hours (1 day)	1 hour, 7 minutes, 30 seconds	Bloatbelly Eel Brew Battered Ysae Captain's Banquet Corpse Loaf Crusted Swordfish Delver's Stew Forbidden Flesh Pie Fried Ugly Glazed Chops Hearty Breakfast Herfwarts Honey Wine Hen Hot Razor Skewers Khapa Tea Kith Meat Mari Crudia Mariner's Porridge Mohorā Wraps Seafood Stew Shark Soup Smoked Rib Rack Tani Cream Yolk Bowl

Woedica's challenge prepared meals[ | ]

The following consumables are considered "prepared" meals.

The Ultimate[ | ]

The Ultimate challenge was added in patch 6.1 (5.0.0.0040). It enables all other God Challenges, Trial of Iron, Path of the Damned, and Solo mode all at once, making the game extremely difficult. As with the other challenges, it also disables console commands/cheats, and mods. The challenge and its objectives are tracked with a quest that is added to the journal upon starting a new game. The challenge itself involves killing a number of Mega Bosses and powerful enemies encountered throughout the course of the game and its expansions.

Being one of the first 12 players to complete the challenge it would earn the player a spot on The Ultimate "Roll of Honor", a physical plaque in Obsidian's studio lobby that would immortalize their achievement. In addition, the first 50 players would be sent a special Josh Sawyer patch to celebrate.

Roll of Honor, blank
The Ultimate patch
Roll of Honor, complete

Notes[ | ]

The console command SetGodChallengeEnabled can be used to enable god challenges after starting a game. Some challenges will not work correctly if enabled this way.
The timing on Berath's Challenge used to be 6 seconds before the party member was killed. This was extended to 10 seconds in a later patch.
In the Solo challenge, recruited companions/sidekicks will still be present on your ship and will participate in boarding-party fights. However, they will all be level 1 (because the game doesn't level them up until the first time they join the active party, which they can't do), making them not very helpful. And on a side note, Berath's challenge applies to companions during boarding fights, meaning they can die in combat despite you being unable to take them into your party