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Luxard Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:11am
Can't feed Gale with items
Hey guys, does anyone have also this bug where Gale gets that debuff Arcane Hunger and feeding him with artifacts doesn't work? I tried many times to give him artifacts but without success... and if I attempt he will leave me. Any ideas on how to solve this?
Last edited by Luxard; Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:21am
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chess Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:19am 
Can't believe arcane hunger made it to release. I have no idea how to stop Gale from being crippled and i just started the game.
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Doctor Hades Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:29am 
Originally posted by chess:
Can't believe arcane hunger made it to release. I have no idea how to stop Gale from being crippled and i just started the game.

I had the same issue and found the game to be frustratingly vague on what I was supposed to do.

Turned out that when I used the Long Rest / Camp option and I sent Gale to sleep, a talking cat with wings called (?) Tate appears and gives him an item. This item is described as being a magical artefact that Gale is told he has to consume. I completely missed the significance of this at the time and on resuming the save, wondered why Gale was crouching as if injured and why his health kept dropping to 13 out of 21.

Well, it so happened that one of magical rings (a pink/purple one) in my inventory, which I thought I'd found from looting and had equipped, was actually the artefact that Tate had given Gale to consume. Right-clicking on this ring after unequipping it gave me the Consume option, which isn't available for other non-magical rings. Once 'eaten', Gale's stance returned to normal and the Arcane Hunger icon disappeared.

I am really enjoying this game but I feel some aspects of it are not very well explained. There aren't much in the way of actual tutorials for beginnings apart from the initial ones on the flying ship at the start.
Last edited by Doctor Hades; Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:31am
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Scrublord Aug 4, 2023 @ 9:57am 
Hey - crossposting this from other threads, but here's the workaround that worked for me:

When the Arcane Hunger tag first comes up, DO NOT INTERACT WITH HIM when the (!) sign appears over his head. Instead, transfer an artifact to his inventory, select him as a character, right click on the artifact and Consume.

As long as you don't trigger that initial donate screen, it seems to be fine!

(You will also get the Approval and the dialogue from this, don't worry!)
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