So...Gareth is dead.

[shi_mian_mai_fu]

Hi o7

Short story. I saw Gareth fighting, saved his ass, started a discussion with him and for some reason, that moron attacked me. Of course, i killed him.

Now, a few hours later, i have found the seeker's village and they ask me to search for a guy named gareth. Went back where he was and...yup, still dead. Very dead. I can enter the door near him, but if i touch the switch, i am cursed.

Just wondering, do i really need Gareth alive to continue or i should start over?

[Spear Deer]

You dont need ANY character alive to 'beat' the game. There is almost definitely a way, its up to you to figure it out though.

[Landis]

same happened to me. some folks in the sanctuary dont recognize the fact, but the skele ♥♥♥♥♥ does. now im screwed because i went to the maze and absorbed scrolls before getting the quest from her and now its all bugged.

[shi_mian_mai_fu]

So...Gareth is still (very) dead and everyone ask me to go to look for him. I talked with bahara (the lezard standing next to the vine) and he thank me for finding Gareth. Went to gratiana and the quest is now working again <3

[Ted Cruz, Zodiac Griller]

Gareth died in combat for me, I brought the amulet that Gareth dropped to Leyah who then removed my followers collar. I got mine removed from Nebora because i was the champion in the arena, so my friends are trying to use the arena like i did but are always told to come back the next day. I waited so long, and quest logs confirmed it had been an in-game day, yet they still tell us to come back the next day. So Nebora won't help them and Leyah will not talk to them. She only fiddles with the amulet in her hands and doesn't say anything. I can't progress in the game without getting the collar off one of my friends because they have the Bless spell that we need to remove the curse on the lever for the door.

[Ace]

In a previous game we saved Gareth and took him back to Amadia's Sanctuary, where happy Leya removed source collars from all party members.

In our new game Gareth died fighting the magisters. We found that fight overwhelming at lvl4 on Tactician, came back at lvl6, but Gareth didn't survive that long.
So we took his source collar (the one with a socket) to Exter and Leya as proof of his death.

In return she removed the collar from my friend, but not from my character! If I talked to Leya after she received the news of Gareth's death - she just stared at me blankly with a single dialog option to walk away. I tried listening on the conversation while my friend gave her the proof - still Leya removed the source collar only from his character.

So I sneaked and stole (Thievery +3) the collar with a socket from Leya and gave it back to her.
Et voilà, she accepted it again and this time removed my source collar as well.
Rinse and repeat if you have more party members still in source collars.

[corisai]

Anyway you will get your collar removed at end of Act 1. But nice find :)