Gowry’s Questline
Sage Gowry is a soft-spoken old scholar living in a shack outside Sellia. Ever since Malenia’s scarlet rot blossomed in Aeonia, he has devoted himself to her and to the cycle of decay and rebirth. He found Millicent and her sisters as babies in the Swamp of Aeonia and raised them as his daughters.
His questline runs alongside Millicent’s Questline. At first he only wants a needle to slow her rot, but the further she gets, the clearer his real hopes for her become. It ends with a sorcery shop, a talisman and his Bell Bearing.
Walkthrough
- Meet Gowry. His shack stands near the entrance to Sellia, Town of Sorcery in Caelid. He asks you to find an Unalloyed Gold Needle in the swamp and promises to share a secret about Sellia in return.
- Fetch the needle. Travel into the Swamp of Aeonia and defeat Commander O’Neil for the Unalloyed Gold Needle.
- Get it repaired. Hand the needle to Gowry, reload the area and talk to him again. He gives you the repaired needle and asks you to take it to Millicent.
- Deliver it to Millicent. Go to the Church of the Plague and give the needle to Millicent.
- Return to Gowry right away. Go straight back to the shack to hear his new dialogue and open his shop. If you instead reload and talk to Millicent at the church again first, Gowry is gone the next time you visit, and Millicent is sitting in his place.
- Buy Pest Threads (optional). After you give Millicent the Valkyrie’s Prosthesis, talk to Gowry again. Pest Threads is now in his shop, and buying it unlocks more of his talk about Millicent and Malenia.
- Hear his request. Once Millicent has reached the Haligtree, visit Gowry again. He asks you to side with her sisters when they come for her and to kill her yourself.
- Choose in Elphael. Finish Millicent’s story in Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree by taking either the gold sign (help her) or the red sign (kill her).
- Back to the shack. If you helped Millicent, Gowry is mourning her choice. Exhaust his dialogue, and you can then kill him for good. If you killed her, he is already lying dead. Either way his body holds his last rewards.
Missable steps & failure conditions
- Visit him straight after the church. If you talk to Millicent again before going back to Gowry, he is absent on your next visit and Millicent is in the shack instead. Going back right after giving her the needle is the safe route to his new dialogue and shop.
- Attacking him early is not the end. If you try to kill Gowry, his body turns into a Kindred of Rot. When you come back, he is human again and back in his shack.
- Pest Threads is the key to his later dialogue. It only shows up after Millicent gets her prosthesis, and his extra talk about her and Malenia only opens once you buy it.
Endings & consequences
- Millicent. Gowry wants her defeated by her sisters and betrayed by you, so that she will flower and be reborn when Malenia rises. Whether you go along with that decides how Millicent’s Questline ends.
- Gowry’s fate. Side with Millicent and he is left grieving, and you can end him for good. Side with the sisters and he is dead when you return.