The Long Hunt not active / listed in Journal

[WinuX]

Hi, I have picked up Sagani, talked to her about everything, and soul read the cliffs in Pearlwood Bluff, but the quest still does not seem to activate. It is not listed in the Journal, and I did not get any update on after the soul read.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

You may need to visit the official tech support forum, follow the sticky topic there and upload a savegame, so the developers can take a look:
https://forums.obsidian.net/forum/104-pillars-of-eternity-technical-support-spoiler-warning/

How do you know about the quest, if it isn't even listed in the journal?

[WinuX]

Thank you for the tip. I know of it because I have checked if she had one, since talking to her about everything multiple times and dragging her around quite a bit did not start anything.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Makes no sense yet.

The first time you meet Sagani, you get the options to take a look at her figurine, tell her you're a watcher and learn about the first place where to travel to with her. I don't think you can soul-read anything at Pearlwood Bluff without the quest being active.

Maybe you've managed to break the game in weird ways. Sometimes blindly following walkthroughs makes strange bugs appear.

[WinuX]

Since this is my first playthrough, I am not following any walkthrough. It was just weird that nothing triggers. And actually I have finished the quest without it ever appearing in my journal. Or without any kind of update displayed by the game, even though those are turned on.

[ShardofTruth]

I'm experienting the exact same bug, the quest did never seem to have triggered for me but because Sagani is always in my party I never really noticed until I reached Elmshore 70 hours into the game and nothing updated after inspecting the arch.

Is there a way to fix this, maybe with the console? I tried some quest commands but they don't seem to do anything.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by ShardofTruth:

I'm experienting the exact same bug, the quest did never seem to have triggered for me but because Sagani is always in my party I never really noticed until I reached Elmshore 70 hours into the game and nothing updated after inspecting the arch.

What does that mean? First you say the quest has never been active, then you refer to inspecting the Adra Arch at Elmshore. You are only able to interact with souls near the Adra Arch, if the quest is active and if you have completed the earlier part at Pearlwood Bluff.

[ShardofTruth]

The quests seems to have progressed so far (Pearlwood + Elmshore) but it doesn't appear in the quest log or is mentioned in the watcher's diary.

[ShardofTruth]

I completed the game in this stage and Sagani's ending slate didn't even appear, which didn't make any sense at all.
So I checked the global variables and "b_Sagani_dead" was indead set to 1 somehow. I've read that there was some sort of similiar bug when the quest would fail as soon as you entered the Woodend Plains. This didn't happen for me but maybe it's a similiar root cause.

Since Sagani was now actually alive in my game I could start the quest with "StartQuest companion_qst_sagani" and it was finished already since all quest triggers worked the whole time.

So in the end I could fix this bug through the console thankfully. Maybe this is helpful for someone finding this thread in five years or so.