Avowed's "Heart of Valor" quest presents a difficult choice regarding Keipo and the Leviathan Heart. This guide details the optimal dialogue choices to obtain all possible rewards: Umpara's Spear, the Stormdancer armor set, and the Leviathan Heart trinket, without revealing Keipo's secret.
Should You Give Keipo the Heart?
No. Refusing to give Keipo the Leviathan Heart unlocks the path to acquiring all available loot while preserving Thirdborn's hope. This requires reading Keipo's Weathered Journal (found near the Leviathan Heart).
Rewards:
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Giving the Heart: Umpara's Spear (Exceptional Quality +1/3 weapon). Stats: 88 Physical Damage, 84 Stun, 13 Stamina Cost, 6% Critical Hit Chance, Abilities: Deadly Mechanism (poison dart on Power Attacks), Strike the Heart (+25% Critical Hit Damage).
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Not Giving the Heart: The Stormdancer armor set (Scale, Gloves, Boots, Ring), and the Leviathan Heart as a trinket (+20% Attack Damage, with health drain). Stormdancer armor stats are detailed in the table below.
Stormdancer Armor Piece | Quality | Damage Reduction | Additional Damage Reduction | Maximum Stamina | Maximum Essence | Ability #1 | Ability #2 |
Stormdancer’s Scale | Exceptional (+1/3) | 15% | 35 | -25 | -35 | Sheltering Gale: 5% chance to avoid ranged damage | Shock-Proofed: +30% resistance to Shock Accumulation |
Stormdancer Gloves | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Item Bonus: +10% Ability Cast Speed | Thundering Blows: Power Attacks deal 5% bonus Shock Damage |
Stormdancer Boots | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Item Bonus: -10% incoming Fire, Frost, and Shock Damage | Static Charge : +10% Shock Damage for 10 seconds after dodging |
Stormdancer Ring | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Sky-Mother’s Protection: +10% Shock Damage | N/A |
To get the Stormdancer set, choose these dialogue options with Chiko after refusing Keipo: "I'm sorry my uncle is sick…", "Uh…about that. He’s not just sick. It’s the Dreamscourge.", "He wanted to die before he turned. He was trying to keep you safe.", "There is one way. We just stopped him from doing it."
Getting All Loot:
Follow this precise dialogue order:
Keipo: "We need to talk. Now.", "Come clean. Chiko told me you want to end your life.", "We wouldn’t be having this conversation if you had the Dreamscourge.", "I’m sorry. I can’t give you the heart.", "I respect your choice. But I can’t be a part of it.", "Listen. I…I know what happened to Umpara.", "And? Why didn’t you tell the truth?", "That’s why you really trapped the ruins. So no one would find out.", "No. The truth would do more harm than good."
Chiko: (Use the Chiko dialogue options listed above).
This strategy secures all rewards without negatively impacting the settlement's narrative.