Treated Like Cattle is a quest in Divinity: Original Sin 2 where players must help two people who have been turned into cows by an evil witch turn back into their human selves by bringing them an elusive potion hidden somewhere in the House of Witches.
Curing both cows from their affliction requires two potions, but unfortunately there seems to be only one of them. This guide describes the exact location of the sorcerer's potion, how to make the second one, as well as all the possible ways to complete Treating Like Cattle and the rewards that can be obtained.
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Treated like location cattle
They are in The Meadows north of Driftwood two cows, Geraldine and Mabel, standing in an open field next to the witches' house (X:340, Y:240). Use a character with the Pet Pal Talent to talk to them to find out that they are actually two people turned into cows by the sorceress Alice Alisceon.
Geraldine and Mabel will ask you to help them return to their true selves by bringing them A witch's potionthe only thing that can reverse the curse the Witch has placed on them. The two cows will tell you that the Witch's Potion can be found in the Witch's House.
How to get Witch Potion in Divinity: Original Sin 2
Location of the witch's potion
The witch's house is right next to where you find the cows (X:375, Y:224)and once you start the quest it will be marked with a yellow flag on your map. It's a house with a big frog on the porch.
To enter, lift The key to the witch's house in front of the entrance (use hotkey to highlight objects to find it). Use the key to open the door next to the frog and enter the house.
Find the hatch leading down to the basement in the room next to the bedroom. Having a figure with 4 Theft use the pin to unlock the hatch and enter it The cellar of the witch's house.
If you can't lock the cellar hatch, you can find the key to it by killing Alice Alisceon in Cloisterwood and looting her body.
The cellar of the witch house is swarming with exploding rats. These rats spawn from rat holes located on the walls in the basement. To deal with the rats, you will need to close the rat holes by destroying them with attacks. There are a total of five rat holes, one in the first room and four in the second. Use a character with ranged skills, such as a mage or archer, to close the rat holes from a distance without the rats ambushing you.
Once we deal with all the rats, activate the lever in the second room, open the metal grate leading to the last room.
Pick up A witch's potion from a shelf in the corner of the roombehind the table and chair. This is the potion the cows are looking for. However, since this is only a one-time dose, it can only cure one of them.
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How to make a witch potion in Divinity: Original Sin 2
Witch Potion Recipe
Kill the giant blue frog (Zppt) in the electrified cell in the basement (300XP) and loot its body to find a book called Witch Potion Notes. If you have a character with Mystic and Scholar tags, they will be able to read this book decipher the recipe for the Witch's Potion which can be used to treat Geraldine and Mabel.
Only Fane has both Mystic and Scholar brands in it DOS2. Since you can't change labels with the Magic Mirror respec, this means there's no way to decipher the book unless you have it in your party (or already have your own character with those labels).
All the ingredients of a witch's potion
The recipe for the Witch's Potion is:
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1 Witch Eye + 1 Augmentor + 1 Mushroom = Witch Potion
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Witch's eye |
The Witch's Eye can be found on the table at the main floor of the House of Witchesright in front of the entrance. |
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Augmentor |
One Augmentor can be found in Driftwood, near the west exit (X:262, Y:102). |
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Boletus |
One mushroom can be found southeast of the witch's house, next to a wooden barrel (X:388, Y:204). |
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Combine Witch's Eye, Augmentor and Boletus in the crafting menu to create Witch's Brewed Potion.
You do not need to decipher the witch potion notes to make this potion; just use the right ingredients.
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How to heal Geraldine and Mabel in Divinity: Original Sin 2
How to turn Geraldine and Mabel into humans in DOS2
The curse on Geraldine and Mabel can be lifted and they can return to their human forms by drinking the potion. Depending on the state of the game and the number of potions you have in your inventory, this interaction can happen in a few different ways.
- If you have one witch potion in your inventory: Give Geraldine or Mabel the Witch's Potion to remove the curse from one of them (13450XP). The Treated Like Cattle quest will not close until you bring the second potion to heal the second cow. The second time you get 13450 XP when you use the second potion for a total of 26900 XP.
- If you have two witchcraft potions in your inventory: Give both Geraldine and Mabel a Witch Potion to remove the curse from them both (13450XP).
- If you use persuasion to request a reward: Mabel will agree to sell you books for free, and Geraldine will offer to tell you where the secret treasure stash is. However, this will reduce the experience reward for healing any cow from 13450XP to 8075XP.
Geraldine's stash is located inside a clay mound north of Šibenice, behind the windmill (X:437, Y:182). You will find this stash here regardless of whether he tells you its location or not.
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Use One Witch's Potion to heal both cows in DOS2
There is an exploit v Divinity: Original Sin 2 where you can use one witch potion (the one obtained from the basement) to heal both cows. With this method, not only will you not have to make a Witch's Brewed Potion to heal the second cow, you will get a full 26900XP. It works like this:
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Collect the witch's potion from the cellar of the witch's house.
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Talk to Geraldine and Mabel and continue the dialogue until you get to a dialogue screen that says “Feed Geraldine Potion/Feed Mabel Potion”.
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Switch to another party member, open your inventory, find the Sorcerer's Potion, move it to that character's bag, and drop it on the ground.
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Switch to the character talking to Geraldine and Mabel and select the dialogue option “Feed Geraldine/Mabel the Potion”. This heals one of the cows and returns them to their human form.
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Pick up the witch potion from where you dropped it on the ground, talk to the remaining cow and feed them the potion to heal them as well.
- Released
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September 14, 2017
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Language, Sexual Themes, Violence
