Walkthrough for the quest Treated like Cattle in the game Divinity: Original Sin 2. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the quest smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.
Quest Group: Chapter 4 - Mastering the Source
Starting Map: Reaper's Coast
To start this quest you should talk to Mabel and Geraldine (Pet Pal talent required).
We came across a pair of cows that were in fact two people who were polymorphed and enslaved by a witch. They want to be turned back into their human form.
Warning: This is timed quest. If you take too long to complete it, the cows will disappear and the quest will close.
Mabel and Geraldine
Reaper's Coast
The Witch House
Reaper's Coast
Witch's Eye
Reaper's Coast
Witch's Potion
Reaper's Coast
Corpse of Alice Alisceon (lvl 15)
Reaper's Coast
We learned that the witch possesses a potion that can transform her beast victims back into human form.
We've been told that the witch fled west into the woods as Magisters were chasing her.
Kill Corpse of Alice Alisceon (lvl 15).
The witch, Alice Alisceon, is dead.
The witch's house is wrecked and empty.
The cows mentioned something about rats. It might be worth looking into.
Get Witch's Potion.
We found a single bottle of the witch's potion.
We decided to keep the potion for ourselves.
One of us drank the potion and was transformed into a cow.
Pick up the Witch's Eye.
We found a particularly disturbing ingredient for the witch's brew - her own eyeball.
Kill Zppt and loot Witch's Potion Notes from its corpse. Read the book - you will learn a new recipe - Witch's Brewed Potion. To create one potion you need Witch's Eye + Boletus + 5 x Augmentor.
We've learned how to brew the recipe that will turn the polymorphed cows back into humans.
Both of the polymorphed cows have been restored to their human form.
Talk to Mabel and Geraldine and select ...
*Ask them what's in it for you.*
... then you have to go through a persuasion check.
We gave a potion to one of the cows, Mabel. It turned back into a woman. We received a recipe book from her. She will now resume her life as a recipe merchant, back in Driftwood.
Mabel in Driftwood.
We gave a potion to one of the cows, Geraldine. It turned back into a man. We forced him to tell us where his hidden treasure can be found - near a windmill in the Meadows.
Don't ask for a reward, give them the potions.
We gave a potion to one of the cows, Mabel, without asking for anything in return.
We gave a potion to one of the cows, Geraldine, without asking for anything in return.
The matter seems to have been resolved by someone else. There's nothing more for us to do here.
The two polymorphed cows are dead.
The polymorphed cows have fled.