Preceptor Seluvis's Quest - Spoiler & Warning

[Witcher]

I completed Ranni's quest before completing Preceptor Seluvis's, and found him dead like a ragged doll in his tower.

DO NOT make the same mistake I did below if you don't want the puppet(s) or Amber Starlight.

I exchanged 2 more valuable Starlight Shards for a useless puppet thinking I can complete his quest after he died. Then I got a useless Amber Starlight and took it back to his lifeless body with no option to progress the quest to completion.

[Dollmaker]

Pretty sure that happens when you give her the Knife, so, not even the end of her quest.

[Sifer2]

Yes by pure luck I had looked it up just before I gave Ranni the Knife. Seluvis will die so it's ideal to do his quest as far as getting the Magic Scorpion Charm first.

[🅺🅰🆁🅰]

had to rush seluvis on my second character so that my mage could do 4400 instead of 4000

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Can you not interact with his corpse as a merchant to get the remaining puppets?

I had the option in my game, after he died, but admittedly had already bought everything.

I also got his special potion, but didn't actually use it (using the Amber Starlight).

The end of his "quest" involves him dying as far as I know regardless. Though if you are locked out of getting the puppets, I'm sorry to hear that.

[Drake Ravenwolf]

the trigger is talking to ranni with the fingerslaying blade in your bags

[Witcher]

Originally posted by Vortikon:

Originally posted by Echonian:

Can you not interact with his corpse as a merchant to get the remaining puppets?

I had the option in my game, after he died, but admittedly had already bought everything.

I also got his special potion, but didn't actually use it (using the Amber Starlight).

The end of his "quest" involves him dying as far as I know regardless. Though if you are locked out of getting the puppets, I'm sorry to hear that.

You can get the puppets you just cant get the scorpion charm if he dies before you give him the amber starlight.

^ ^ This and you can't progress his quest any further for the Magic Scorpion Charm.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Originally posted by Vortikon:

Originally posted by Echonian:

Can you not interact with his corpse as a merchant to get the remaining puppets?

I had the option in my game, after he died, but admittedly had already bought everything.

I also got his special potion, but didn't actually use it (using the Amber Starlight).

The end of his "quest" involves him dying as far as I know regardless. Though if you are locked out of getting the puppets, I'm sorry to hear that.

You can get the puppets you just cant get the scorpion charm if he dies before you give him the amber starlight.

Ah, thanks for clarifying. To be 100% honest I had forgotten about that charm, but I do have it apparently so I must have "finished" his quest? I never used his amber draught on anyone though. Guess you get it when you give him the amber starlight.

It's only about a 10% increase in damage in any case, making you take about as much extra damage. I get use out of these kinds of things myself - mainly the fire one on my current build that mainly uses fire damage - but it won't hurt your build that much to miss it by any means. If you wanted it for PvP, that would suck, but otherwise you can just grab it in NG+. Or maybe find someone willing to trade it?

[Jowain]

Once you give him the Amber Shard he gives you the Scorpion Talisman, what bothers me currently is if I can proceed his questline without giving either Nepheli or Dung Eater the potion. Gideon says he'll dispose of it, however does that mean he just gives it to someone else. Because I really want that talisman for a mage run.

Seluvis gives me the creeps though, makes me ask if the power is worth it.

Turns out I'm locked in the moral decision of giving a possible evil concoction to a fictional being. Even if I'm currently aiming for the Chaos ending, which destroys a fictional world lol

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Jowain:

Once you give him the Amber Shard he gives you the Scorpion Talisman, what bothers me currently is if I can proceed his questline without giving either Nepheli or Dung Eater the potion. Gideon says he'll dispose of it, however does that mean he just gives it to someone else. Because I really want that talisman for a mage run.

Seluvis gives me the creeps though, makes me ask if the power is worth it.

Turns out I'm locked in the moral decision of giving a possible evil concoction to a fictional being. Even if I'm currently aiming for the Chaos ending, which destroys a fictional world lol

Nothing happens, Seluvis is too much of an idiot that he believes you give the potion to Nepheli regardless of what you do with it, Give to Nepheli or Dung Eater or have Gideon dispose of it.

All basically have the same outcome, which is continuing with his quest, only difference is what Spirits you get.

[SadPlatty©]

Originally posted by Jowain:

Once you give him the Amber Shard he gives you the Scorpion Talisman, what bothers me currently is if I can proceed his questline without giving either Nepheli or Dung Eater the potion. Gideon says he'll dispose of it, however does that mean he just gives it to someone else. Because I really want that talisman for a mage run.

Seluvis gives me the creeps though, makes me ask if the power is worth it.

Turns out I'm locked in the moral decision of giving a possible evil concoction to a fictional being. Even if I'm currently aiming for the Chaos ending, which destroys a fictional world lol

To be fair, Seluvis is a bit more than evil in what he does with his magic also.
If anything - I say give the potion to Dungeater if your being a "nice guy", based on what the potion does.

As for the Amber potion, I got it like a trophy but wasn't after more than the scorpion.

And I don't think Gideon would be able to push fourth his quest properly; I don't want to spoil anything though for those who haven't gone down the quest-line yet though, but I am quite confident Seluvis can DEFINATELY tell lol

Also - to anyone who cares - get the sleeping arrow puppet; leveled she is really good against dragons and certain other bosses. In 2 or 3 at +9, she can sleep the boss dragons. Edit: though I was disheartened that (even though the description says Gideon knew the person before and was why he and Seluvis split up), Gideon has no dialogue for you having it :/

[Jowain]

Originally posted by SadPlatty©:

Originally posted by Jowain:

Once you give him the Amber Shard he gives you the Scorpion Talisman, what bothers me currently is if I can proceed his questline without giving either Nepheli or Dung Eater the potion. Gideon says he'll dispose of it, however does that mean he just gives it to someone else. Because I really want that talisman for a mage run.

Seluvis gives me the creeps though, makes me ask if the power is worth it.

Turns out I'm locked in the moral decision of giving a possible evil concoction to a fictional being. Even if I'm currently aiming for the Chaos ending, which destroys a fictional world lol

To be fair, Seluvis is a bit more than evil in what he does with his magic also.
If anything - I say give the potion to Dungeater if your being a "nice guy", based on what the potion does.

As for the Amber potion, I got it like a trophy but wasn't after more than the scorpion.

And I don't think Gideon would be able to push fourth his quest properly; I don't want to spoil anything though for those who haven't gone down the quest-line yet though, but I am quite confident Seluvis can DEFINATELY tell lol

Also - to anyone who cares - get the sleeping arrow puppet; leveled she is really good against dragons and certain other bosses. In 2 or 3 at +9, she can sleep the boss dragons. Edit: though I was disheartened that (even though the description says Gideon knew the person before and was why he and Seluvis split up), Gideon has no dialogue for you having it :/

Does it lock you out of getting the Scorpion Talisman, as it's the whole reason I'm even doing the creeps quest in the first place or it doesn't matter, he gives it to you regardless when providing him with the Amber Shard?

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Jowain:

Originally posted by SadPlatty©:

To be fair, Seluvis is a bit more than evil in what he does with his magic also.
If anything - I say give the potion to Dungeater if your being a "nice guy", based on what the potion does.

As for the Amber potion, I got it like a trophy but wasn't after more than the scorpion.

And I don't think Gideon would be able to push fourth his quest properly; I don't want to spoil anything though for those who haven't gone down the quest-line yet though, but I am quite confident Seluvis can DEFINATELY tell lol

Also - to anyone who cares - get the sleeping arrow puppet; leveled she is really good against dragons and certain other bosses. In 2 or 3 at +9, she can sleep the boss dragons. Edit: though I was disheartened that (even though the description says Gideon knew the person before and was why he and Seluvis split up), Gideon has no dialogue for you having it :/

Does it lock you out of getting the Scorpion Talisman, as it's the whole reason I'm even doing the creeps quest in the first place or it doesn't matter, he gives it to you regardless when providing him with the Amber Shard?

He gives it to you after giving him the shard, you can just stop doing his quest there, past that point it aint worth it.

[Nerevar]

pretty sure his quest is incomplete currently just like patches. as the amber draught has only negative downsides. there was probaly some more use to it for the cut ending age absolute but thats gone so i am not sure if there is much purpose to this.

also when you find his set on his corpse you normally get the charm aswell then. atleast thats how i got on my first playtrough. unless that got changed.

you can stall rannis quest infinitely till the end of the game by simply never looting the fingerslayer blade. so unless you really want certain items you can wait.

[Jowain]

Originally posted by Dollmaker:

Originally posted by Jowain:

Does it lock you out of getting the Scorpion Talisman, as it's the whole reason I'm even doing the creeps quest in the first place or it doesn't matter, he gives it to you regardless when providing him with the Amber Shard?

He gives it to you after giving him the shard, you can just stop doing his quest there, past that point it aint worth it.

That's good, even if I'm going Chaos with the end of the world and all... creeps like Seluvis deserves no fun.