If you’re looking for a place with plenty of tomes in Dragon’s Dogma 2, then you’ve come to the right place, as we show exactly where to find this hidden story objective.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 – Where to Find a Place With Plenty of Tomes

Upon reaching the capital, Vernworth, you’ll be tasked with meeting Captain Brant. He’ll fill you in on the situation going on around the city and elsewhere, offering you several missions to complete in order to progress the story. One of these missions, called “The Caged Magistrate,” has you breaking a prisoner out from his jail cell. The only problem is that he doesn’t want to go with you unless you find him a place with a “mountain of tomes.”

This begins the next part of the quest, “Find a place with plenty of tomes.” However, the game does not give you any sort of objective marker, leaving the task of finding this place entirely up to you. There’s not, and visiting the oracle, she’ll give you a hint but not the exact location. The hint she gives is:

“Consider thy path with a cautious eye and an open mind, lest the light of revelation forsake thee.”

It’s pretty vague compared to some of the other tips she offers, but for those who know anything about religion, the “light of revelation” is referring to god. Ther just so happens to be a church located right in the slums, which should have been the location you exited from the prison from.

In this spot, you’ll see a church and an old man named Kendrick standing in front of it. Talk to him, and some options to donate to the church will appear. I opted to give him 1000 coins, though you’ll need to talk to him and donate to him a second time. Once you do, he will ask you to find a missing kid named Malcolm. This will start “The Heel of History” quest and will require you to locate Malcolm.

Inside the slum, there are three kids to talk to: one inside the church, one directly in front of the church, and the last one by the second, overlooking the sea.

Once you’ve spoken to all three kids, you’ll report back to Kendrick. From here, things are pretty self-explanatory as he’ll take you to the next spot, which is underground. It’s not a big area, and eventually, you find Malcolm inside a vault. This vault just so happens to house an archive, the perfect place for the Magistrate.

Go back to the prison, and the Magistrate will now agree to leave. Lead him outside. This will complete the quest, allowing you to report back to Captain Brant.

Congrats on finishing the quest!  Don’t feel bad if this one took you a while to figure it out, trust me, we were running around trying to find this spot for hours before realizing we had to talk to the NPC near the church. We didn’t think a side quest would be mandatory to complete one of the optional story quests, but that’s exactly what needed to happen.

The rest of Captain Brants’ requests are pretty straightforward, so you shouldn’t have too much on an issue solving those.

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