The game will start here and you'll also receive two main quests - "A Moment's Respite" and "A Gilded Vale".
Defeat a wolf, collect springberries.
It leads to an abandoned camp.
This item is needed for the "A Moment's Respite" main quest.
Map of Encampment M1 | Pillars of Eternity
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Key points of Pillars of Eternity M1 - Encampment
Important areas on the map
Exits from locations
Locked doors or chests
Traps
Important NPC's (quest givers, traders etc.)
New potential team members
Dangerous enemies (bosses, elite monsters etc.)
Important areas on the map
Main campsite
The game will start here and you'll also receive two main quests - "A Moment's Respite" and "A Gilded Vale".
Wolf's lair
Defeat a wolf, collect springberries.
Bridge
It leads to an abandoned camp.
Waterskin
This item is needed for the "A Moment's Respite" main quest.
Encampment - description and map of the location
The above map presents the Encampment, i.e. the location in which you start Pillars of Eternity. You are not going to spend too much time there, but this place plays an important tutorial role. While staying there, you will learn, among other thing, the basics of combat and interactions with NPCs. Towards the end of your stay there, make sure that you save the game (more precisely, do it before the final fight with bandits, as one of your allies will live or die as a result of your decisions).
Important places in the Encampment
1. Encampment
This is where you start the game.
Main quests: A Moment's Respite - it appears in your journal automatically.
Main quests: Gilded Vale - it appears in your journal automatically.
Heodan - a trader; he sells melee weapons, ranged weapons, armors, potions of regeneration and lockpicks.
Chest - requires 1 lockpick or 1 Mechanics point
2. Wolf's Lair
Main quests: A moment's Respite - kill the wolf and pick the nearby berries.
4. The waterskin at the abandoned encampment
Main quests: Gilded Vale- after the fight with the opponents, pick the waterskin.
Quests that you can obtain in the Encampment
Main quests: A Moment's Respite - It appears in your journal automatically.
Main quests: Gilded Vale - It appears in your journal automatically.
Important NPCs in The Encampment
Caravan Master Odema (M1,1) - You talk to him at the very beginning of the game.
Calisca - (M1,1) She joins your party for the duration of the initial quests.
Heodan (M1,1) - Above all, he is a trader - he sells melee weapons, ranged weapons, armors, Potion of regeneration, and lockpicks. Towards the end of your stay at the Encampment his life will be in danger and you may try to save him.
Types of enemies and monsters in the Encampment
Young Wolf
Glanfathan Hunter - Always attack archers first.
Glanfathan Leader - Attack him in the first place after the final fight starts.
Other important information in connection with the Encampment
The game does not allow you to leave the encampment by approaching the map's edge. You reach the next location during A moment's Respite main quest.
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