Dragon's Dogma 2 Short-Sighted Ambition and On the Transference of Souls walkthrough
Apr. 8, 2024The DD2 Short-Sighted Ambition quest has you find a piece of fruit - and then an ancient tome of dark magic
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The Dragon’s Dogma 2 Short-Sighted Ambition quest has players find a Ripened Quince for Isaac, and then escalates suddenly to finding a book called On the Transference of Souls 2, to pair with the other text that is rotting his eyesight even as he pours through it. This will ultimately lead to a subtle choice about whether you want to give him the book or not, but making the right call will allow you to get the original book, On the Transference of Souls 1, and combine the two to cast a powerful and unique spell inDragon’s Dogma 2called Celestial Paean - but we get ahead of ourselves.
Below, I’ll take you through a simple and comprehensive walkthrough for the DD2 Short-Sighted Ambition quest, explain where to find a ripened quince and the book On the Transference of Souls 2, and whether you should even give such a powerful artifact to Isaac at all…
Short-Sighted Ambition quest walkthrough for DD2
The Short-Sighted Ambition quest starts in DD2in Bakbattahl at the shop Isaac’s Wares. When you try to buy any object from Isaac, it’ll start a dialogue where he struggles to find it because of his failing eyesight. This turns out to be because he’s reading a book of evil magic that’s burning his eyeballs out of his head, but damned if it isn’t a page-turner nonetheless. Below we’ll explain the individual steps of the Short-Sighted Ambition quest, but here’s a quick summary of what you need to do.
Quince bushes are fairly common in theDragon’s Dogma 2 Battahlregion, and I’ve markeda location that I found one just above, though exploration generally will yield a Quince sooner or later - especially when a few enemies tend to drop them randomly.
Once you find one, you can turn it into a Ripened Quince bykeeping it in your inventory for three in-game days(which can be passed rapidly by just sleeping in a house you own for a long weekend). If it becomes Rotten, you’ve waited too long and will need to find another one, otherwise just give it to Isaac and wait a few days for him to read his book.
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The book On the Transference of Souls 2 issold at Ibrahim’s Scrap Shop, the little alleyway store on the North side of the Checkpoint Rest Town on the Battahl/Vermund border. You might’ve been here before if you did theDragon’s Dogma 2 Hunt for the Jadite Orbquest, but otherwise you can simply buy it off Ibrahim for 2000G.
However, once you have it,ask Ibrahim to make a forgery of the book.This requires handing the book back over and paying some more gold, then waiting a few days. When you come back,you’ll get both the real book, and a fake one called “On the Transit of Souls 2.“This is a step you can skip though - if you’re willing to get the bad ending.
There are two endings to the Short-Sighted Ambition quest, both of which we’ll walk through below, but ultimately they depend onwhether you give Isaac On the Transference of Souls 2,or give him the forged copy.
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