Leviathan Heart Lore: Should Avowed Players Help Keipo?

Author: Scarlett Feb 24,2025

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.

Avowed gameplay showing the correct decision to not give Keipo the Leviathan Heart

Image Source: Obsidian Entertainment via The Escapist

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:

  • 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).

  • 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 PieceQualityDamage ReductionAdditional Damage ReductionMaximum StaminaMaximum EssenceAbility #1Ability #2
Stormdancer’s ScaleExceptional (+1/3)15%35-25-35Sheltering Gale: 5% chance to avoid ranged damageShock-Proofed: +30% resistance to Shock Accumulation
Stormdancer GlovesN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AItem Bonus: +10% Ability Cast SpeedThundering Blows: Power Attacks deal 5% bonus Shock Damage
Stormdancer BootsN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AItem Bonus: -10% incoming Fire, Frost, and Shock DamageStatic Charge : +10% Shock Damage for 10 seconds after dodging
Stormdancer RingN/AN/AN/AN/AN/ASky-Mother’s Protection: +10% Shock DamageN/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:

Avowed gameplay showing all Heart of Valor rewards obtained

Image Source: Obsidian Entertainment via The Escapist

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.