Vordakai Tristan question

[Serpentarius]

Soo, do I have to do something special to make Tristan smash the damned eye rather than making off with it, because I only get 2 options when i talk with him and no matter which I pick he just absconds with the damn thing rathar than smashing it

[Marneus]

You will later search and find Tristian. When that time comes, you will be able to choose wether he destroy or not the eye.

[Serpentarius]

pretty sure there is a way for hom to smash it in the tomb or so i understood it from what i read :/

[Entropie]

Did you have him in your party for the fight?
(It is definitely possible, that was how it resolved the first time for me)

[Serpentarius]

first time i tried ditching him think i could just snag the eye in the tomb, then he just ported in and I jsut noped into an earlier save as he dind't have any dialog i could interract with, tried bringing him, same result, think is I am POSITIVE I had a dialog option there on my first run through that aws not there this time around, unfortunately don't have any saves from that furst run that are even remotely close

[Marneus]

No you can't keep the eye in the tomb.

[Serpentarius]

thanks for the info clears things up

[Entropie]

Just to be 100% accurate though:
It is true that you can not claim the eye in the tomb for yourself, but you definitely can have tristian destroy it in the tomb (which will impact later quests).

[Serpentarius]

so how DO I go about that then @_@

[Entropie]

Well I can only tell you that on my playthrough I did Tristian's companion quests beforehand,
had him in the party and was of lawful good alignment.

In the battle against Vordakai when Tristian seized the eye I had the option to tell him to destroy it (though I do not recall what the wording exactly was, it is possible I told him not to take off and he decided the only way was to destroy it).

Which one of those factors mattered I can not say, but it is definitely possible ^^'

[Serpentarius]

I never even got the optio to start his companion quest before the tomb, hell didn't even know he had one, might be why, well that and Chaotic Evil, thanks for clearing it up for me

[sdf_momar]

He just did the smash the eye version for me. I had done his companion quest a bit before, had him in my main party for the tomb, and answered the "you're my pal" type options when he was talking to the PC before the tomb and when he starts a conversation in it. Sorry that I can't remember the exact dialogue.

[Serpentarius]

probably a part of it then, yeah, as i ahve never had tose options XD

[Amoc]

Anytime a character asks to come along I like to bring them, even if they're not really a member of my questing party. It's usually worth extra XP/options/items to do so.

I had Tristian smash the eye in Vordukai's tomb as a True Neutral PC. I'd completed his companion quests up to that point and just told him to smash it when he goes crazy after beating Vordukai.

[Sotanaht]

What companion quest even is there for Tristian? The only one I can think of is during the season of bloom where you go to the cultist meeting with him, but I think that's main quest required.

I really have to get him to smash it in the tomb, because I know that's required for later when you want to lift the curse from Nyrissa. As far as I'm concerned the whole game depends on that one instance, and I've never been given the dialog option at all. Just "give me the eye" and "ill kill you" are my only choices.

[Sotanaht]

Confirming: You have to have Tristian in your party when you fight Vordekai. I just re-completed Vodekais tomb from a save just before I went to the tomb, doing nothing different prior to the "encounter" with tristian on the way to the gates to the valley of the dead. Allowed him to join my party, proceeded directly to the tomb, got the dialog option needed for him to destroy the eye.

Events inside the tomb might have had some bearing on this outcome, but the key difference is that Tristian was there during the tomb.