POI Mysterious Artifact quest MINOR SPOILER

[HozzMidnight]

So I got this quest from the guy in White Rock City. You get a staff he wants as part of the vote quest you do with the Northern Clan. The head dwarf mentions that you might give the staff to a Storm giant and the journal mentions that you can keep it for your self (it sucks),

Anyway if you go back to the quest giver there does not seem to be a way to keep the staff if you start dialogue with him. You just get your pick of the permanent +2 stat books as a reward. When you do this you lose 15 faction with the Northern Clan. So my question is, can you turn it in to a Storm giant? If so what do you get?

Also in my game there was a step on this quest where we came upon a named Storm giant fighting three Fire giants and the dwarf you are escorting says something like "Storm giants used to be friendly, let's help him." But the Storm giant is red/enemy status and we had to kill him. Is that the giant he's talking about and maybe it was a bug? I killed the three Fire giants first hoping it would end the combat but it did not.

[Morgian]

Yes, you can turn it in to the first storm giant you meet battling the fire giants. He will renew the alliance with the dwarves and you gain 7 blue diamonds (for resurrections he says).

[Narsham]

When I entered that fight he fought a fire giant for one round. The following round, he switched to an enemy and attacked the party, passing through the fire giant as if it were an ally. I did not target or damage or otherwise effect the storm giant in any way.

So I think there may be yet another giant-related bug in a Solasta game...

[valky]

above:

Am not sure, why I could get it done after 5 trials & error.....I started the map stealthy, before the movie trigger.

What worked was either using Marduk as first attacker using a nifty xbow bolt or using Helm of Comprehend Language on one of my characters before attacking or a combination of both.
Neither of my chars can speak Giant without using a spell/item....
(though, my Bard had the language thingie ring equipped)

Could be also the use of stealth as I usually keep Marduk behind.

[the name is godlike for anyone, who is listening to metal ^.^ I soooo laughed]

[Bodrin]

Originally posted by Narsham:

When I entered that fight he fought a fire giant for one round. The following round, he switched to an enemy and attacked the party, passing through the fire giant as if it were an ally. I did not target or damage or otherwise effect the storm giant in any way.

So I think there may be yet another giant-related bug in a Solasta game...

Probably not a Bug!
If you accidentally damage or damaged the Frost Giant they then become hostile.

The Frost giant entered to attack fire giants where I had cast spike growth to provide a barrier between the Fire giants and my party members.

The Frost giant took damage then on the next round they became hostile towards my party and started to attack them, leaving the Fire giants alone.

A reload of the save game later and I managed to keep the Frost giant as an ally.