1 of 4 characters don't have "Bless"

[RelaxedBurrito]

I'm about to help Gareth out and I notice that my Red Prince is missing Bless. All other characters have Bless except him.

Where do I have to go to get Bless, and is it too late?

I can confirm ti's not in the skill book, I've checked 10 times.

[sudokek]

https://divinityoriginalsin2.wiki.fextralife.com/Bless

https://divinityoriginalsin2.wiki.fextralife.com/Dark+Cavern

https://divinityoriginalsin2.wiki.fextralife.com/Braccus+Rex's+Tower

I used this link and clicked the first result to get the above links for you. I'd also recommend lmgtfy in the future.
https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=INCOH2&PC=IFJ1&PTAG=ICO-c9d0fc87&q=dos-bless-book-location

I read about four sentences, sounds like it's automatically granted during these missions. You can hack it in if you need to, but if you havent cleared one of these two spots, I'd go clear it and I'd have the one who doesnt have it lead the party.

Further reading: https://steamcommunity.com/app/435150/discussions/0/1488861734116467858/
"If you see a Shrine to the Seven you can get bless from there. There's a shrine near the big voidwoken fight, a shrine in Braccus' vault and other places and if you don't get from any of those sources after you kill act 1's boss the NPC will have you get it."

[DrunkPunk]

Did you have Red Prince recruited in your party when you learned Bless? You typically either get Bless at the shrine next to the Voidwoken encounter with the skeletons, or at the shrine in Trompdoys lair. But only your main character should have to go through the motions, and the rest of your party should obtain the spell, too. Assuming you aren't running any mods, I'd recommend posting on the Larian bug report forums, they're pretty active over there and they might be able to help.

[RelaxedBurrito]

Originally posted by DrunkPunk:

Did you have Red Prince recruited in your party when you learned Bless? You typically either get Bless at the shrine next to the Voidwoken encounter with the skeletons, or at the shrine in Trompdoys lair. But only your main character should have to go through the motions, and the rest of your party should obtain the spell, too. Assuming you aren't running any mods, I'd recommend posting on the Larian bug report forums, they're pretty active over there and they might be able to help.

I did in fact have RP in the party from the start. I've tried to go back to both Braccus' vault and the dark cave but both statues are inert now.

I'll wait to see if I get it at the end of act I before I submit a inquiry. That said, I will do it if the issue persists. Note, RP has the crown symbol on his head, none of the others do. Does that matter? My friend usually plays co op with me as two of the characters, I play the other two including RP.

[DrunkPunk]

Oh so RP was a character created at the beginning by a friend? That could have caused the issue, characters that are created when starting the game are considered "main characters", and both main characters need to do their thing at the shines independently. If you can't get RP to initiate the shrine encounter at either spot, maybe try turning on multiplayer in the connectivity menu, then try controlling RP? That's the only thing I can think. If that doesn't work then I'd head over to the Larian forums, I don't believe you'll get another opportunity to learn Bless.

[RelaxedBurrito]

Originally posted by DrunkPunk:

Oh so RP was a character created at the beginning by a friend? That could have caused the issue, characters that are created when starting the game are considered "main characters", and both main characters need to do their thing at the shines independently. If you can't get RP to initiate the shrine encounter at either spot, maybe try turning on multiplayer in the connectivity menu, then try controlling RP? That's the only thing I can think. If that doesn't work then I'd head over to the Larian forums, I don't believe you'll get another opportunity to learn Bless.

Sorry I should clarify, we started with the creation of 4 characters. We (one of my two) was swaped out after the fact, but has no issue with Bless. My other of the two is RP, and he does not have it. RP was controlled by me from the start. The other two characters, controlled by my friend, also have Bless.

I can try putting RP in my friends control as well. I am going to contact Larian. Thanks!

[Chaoslink]

All characters who were created at the start of the game are treated as active players, regardless of whether they're just following you or not. This means that when you talked to the statue and went in and got bless, you needed to repeat the same action with Red too. Normally, the companion is treated as having done it even though they just sleep at the statue for a few seconds then await your return. However, you don't have a recruited companion as it sounds, you made the character at the beginning. If you can, you'd have to take manual control of Red and make him interact with the statue. If that fails, then you might have missed the opportunity.

AS far as I've seen, Larian has failsafes for these kinds of things, so it'll probably resolve itself. Otherwise, you might not be able to fix that. My guess is that you'll have the chance to get it at some point though, probably when you reach the Hall of Echoes transition to act two and have to bless the god. They'll probably teach it to you there.

[RelaxedBurrito]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

All characters who were created at the start of the game are treated as active players, regardless of whether they're just following you or not. This means that when you talked to the statue and went in and got bless, you needed to repeat the same action with Red too. Normally, the companion is treated as having done it even though they just sleep at the statue for a few seconds then await your return. However, you don't have a recruited companion as it sounds, you made the character at the beginning. If you can, you'd have to take manual control of Red and make him interact with the statue. If that fails, then you might have missed the opportunity.

AS far as I've seen, Larian has failsafes for these kinds of things, so it'll probably resolve itself. Otherwise, you might not be able to fix that. My guess is that you'll have the chance to get it at some point though, probably when you reach the Hall of Echoes transition to act two and have to bless the god. They'll probably teach it to you there.

It seems you are right here. As it turns out, I went back with RP while in control of all 4 characters and was able to get Bless!! I feel like it should not be this difficult.

Thank you for your help!

[Chaoslink]

You're not supposed to make your whole team from the start. If you do so, there's some extra things you have to deal with. When you do the source rituals in act two in Meistr's basement, you'll have to do each sequence once for every "crowned" character, for each ritual.

Again, each of these characters is seen by the game as being one that a player is actively in control of, even when there's no player actively controlling them. They're not the same as your AI companions if you just recruit them. They will not interrupt you to talk to quest important NPCs, they don't skip these events when you do them and they're not removable or interactable with your other characters in any way.

[Jangkrik]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

All characters who were created at the start of the game are treated as active players, regardless of whether they're just following you or not. This means that when you talked to the statue and went in and got bless, you needed to repeat the same action with Red too. Normally, the companion is treated as having done it even though they just sleep at the statue for a few seconds then await your return. However, you don't have a recruited companion as it sounds, you made the character at the beginning. If you can, you'd have to take manual control of Red and make him interact with the statue. If that fails, then you might have missed the opportunity.

AS far as I've seen, Larian has failsafes for these kinds of things, so it'll probably resolve itself. Otherwise, you might not be able to fix that. My guess is that you'll have the chance to get it at some point though, probably when you reach the Hall of Echoes transition to act two and have to bless the god. They'll probably teach it to you there.

The failsafe is that Malady will force you to go to hall of echoes and cast bless on her after going back when you meet her after Alexander fight.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

You're not supposed to make your whole team from the start. If you do so, there's some extra things you have to deal with. When you do the source rituals in act two in Meistr's basement, you'll have to do each sequence once for every "crowned" character, for each ritual.

Again, each of these characters is seen by the game as being one that a player is actively in control of, even when there's no player actively controlling them. They're not the same as your AI companions if you just recruit them. They will not interrupt you to talk to quest important NPCs, they don't skip these events when you do them and they're not removable or interactable with your other characters in any way.

Just played this part, did the ritual once, all get the second spell, and then the third spell and the second point. All had bless and did the stuff only once.

I was wondering if I had to do the ritual for each companion, but I see no reason but to see their talk with the godlike which is meaningless from choices point of view.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Dorok:

Just played this part, did the ritual once, all get the second spell, and then the third spell and the second point. All had bless and did the stuff only once.

I was wondering if I had to do the ritual for each companion, but I see no reason but to see their talk with the godlike which is meaningless from choices point of view.

You only have to do it multiple times if you launched multiple instances of the game so you could join yourself and create your whole team at the beginning character creation. If you recruit the origin characters to your party, they automatically progress this event.

[Dorok]

Ha ok, it wasn't clear from reading the thread. :-)