Path of exile 2 has secret quests! Agnar and Hidden Idols

This is intriguing.

One thing I will note that I found odd throughout the campaign was the placement of certain checkpoints that didn't make sense.

It is possible these will be used in the future so who knows.

The two I can remember right now are a checkpoint in the forge area where there is a large sword or something stuck in the ground that you can't click on. The other is also in act 2 in the mammoth area where there is a totem of some kind that also seems to do nothing.

Any other's like this?

I think the rhoa feather is red herring. I don’t think it’s even part of anything other than the act 2 secret quest.


As for checkpoints that have no designed content that we can notice, there is at least one in every act.

I suspect these checkpoints will act as the location of the “secret quest boss fight”

Act 1 secret quest boss : Una/ maybe hooded one
Act 2 secret quest boss: Alva
Act 3 secret quest boss: Oswald

I noticed something odd about the love letter we have to find in act 2.
We can try to deliver the message to anyone other than the quest person.
Which means the devs designed responses for the love letter other than the main NPC.

I also noticed that you find the love letter above the sands and the NPC that tells you to look for it says it will probably be beneath the sands. Making me wonder if the one we find above ground isn’t the right one.

I also suspect the NPc that tells us to find the love letter isn’t the person it was meant for. The NpC is trying to cover something up.

Also just saying this again to the devs, forgive me if I misremember a little it’s been a while
“A secret quest that’s worth designing needs to actually have hints baked into the game, Diablo 2 had enough that it was solvable, while Diablo 3 was a joke. The best way to do it is to bake it so that only after reading all NPC dialogue and comprehending what you are reading will you see the hints pile up” something along those lines. I was pretty upset over Diablo 3 back then. Boy did I make a good blue print tho, someone said I’m the godfather of modern day AARPG’s. What’s funny is the post I made back then wouldn’t have ever gotten any traction if it wasn’t for one guy who commented “line breaks”. I didn’t understand that separating text made it more digestible.

At the end of the day I was a huge Diablo fan, but blizzard ruined that franchise. Even when I left the a 100% free blueprint of how to make a well designed and polished game.

Poe2 devs have brought the genre back from the brink of extinction. My only gripe with poe2 is the lack of PvP. I suspect this is due to balancing issues/work load barrier. PvP in my opinion is one of the best things possible in AARPG, even if you have to limit what’s usable in PvP in terms of abilities and gear.

Had a huge thought about the act 2 love letter. Maybe it is meant for the Rhoa that got abandoned. I’m betting we get the Rhoa riding skill gem and the Rhoa feather from the abandoned Rhoa in act 2.

Secret quests are way more inspiring and thought provoking when you have seen and had access to the needed materials, locations, and NPC all along. It’s also a home run to tie it into the campaign and use it as an alternative hero’s ending.

But I’m just one guy, what do I know.

Final note to the devs, if I never got back into Diablo with Diablo 4 I suspect wouldn’t have ever remembered writing the blueprint even if I played poe2. Which means you guys achieved the ultimate status of possibility. You did the thing. I wasn’t sure if I would even be alive to see Diablo 4’s roll out. I’m happy to know my writing inspired someone.

In act 3 when you cross into sandsweapt marsh the game drops a siphoning wand yellow every run.

It’s just sitting there don’t have to open or kill anything. Further in the run there is an advanced hooded mask pre dropped the same way.

Also I exclusively play on steam deck. And sometimes during my playthrough the option to send a message in global chat opens without me prompting it.

I’m hoping we don’t need to know some fancy thing to type into chat to work as a key. That shits mental.

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Lore#3772 wrote:

What happens if you carry the winter wolf skull from normal difficulty all the way to cruel and kill Beira I wonder.

I can confirm at least that the 3 runes cannot be reforged (and are mandatory to spend to progress). Holding every other non-required quest item all of act 1 revealed no new interaction. No combination of those items (including specialization books) had any effect in the reforging bench before or after Genor's death.

I will discard any Normal to Cruel theories out of hand at this time, as Cruel is not a lasting fixture of the game.

There are some oddities else where, the sword in the Titan's Grotto being the biggest in my mind. It has a check point and seems to have no current use other than a point of visual interest / environmental story telling.

/didnt realize this is a troll post

I believe the Sword of Agnar will be an item drop from Geonor, The Putrid Wolf. When you encounter him, he clearly asks Agnar (the sword he is wielding) for power. I think it will be available as a drop when swords are finally released.

As for the idols, this is the one I am interested in. I do believe there is some kind of secret with the idols. I also believe they are to be used in the cruel playthrough. I wonder if they are tied to the ritual zones, Freythorn and Azok Bog.

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MuddyNikes#2648 wrote:

I believe the Sword of Agnar will be an item drop from Geonor, The Putrid Wolf. When you encounter him, he clearly asks Agnar (the sword he is wielding) for power. I think it will be available as a drop when swords are finally released.

As for the idols, this is the one I am interested in. I do believe there is some kind of secret with the idols. I also believe they are to be used in the cruel playthrough. I wonder if they are tied to the ritual zones, Freythorn and Azok Bog.

Have you considered that the reason he went mad is because someone took his sword and replaced it with a knock off?


You are expecting a man fully lost in madness and insanity to be able to recognize the hero’s sword.

It makes more story sense that the hero was fooled out of his sword (this is what happens to King Arthur btw)

I too immediately thought of something being special with the idols.

The problem is - GGG is notorious for not completing fun secrets. They'll let dataminable things be left in yet never add them. It's unfortunate.

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DaisySunshine#7767 wrote:

I too immediately thought of something being special with the idols.

The problem is - GGG is notorious for not completing fun secrets. They'll let dataminable things be left in yet never add them. It's unfortunate.

Or maybe the community has never risen to the standards they expected.

One thing I will say is people need to get it out of their head that just because you can’t data mine something means it’s not in the game. Add server side to your vocabulary.

Someone told me recently that in end game there are pinnacle like areas of the map nobody knows how to open. The data mine says it’s some sort of key that opens it but anything can be a key.

If the biome is water the key could be the winter wolf skull.
If the biome is forest the key could be all the quest mushrooms.

Data mining and data storage has changed drastically in the last 36 months. The ability to hide operable data server side is a reality.

I was never part of the poe1 secret quest community. You guys have me now, I can do this with the right assistance rest assured. No riddle is greater than my comprehension unless it’s poorly designed.

If anyone wants to drop an info drop of all the known poe1 secret quest stuff I’ll read up on it. Otherwise I’m not interested.

Anyone who is interested in joining in on this PM me, I am building a guild of dedicated members

I knew there were secret quest in poe2 when I realized the abandoned Rhoa in act 2 is an unused asset.

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Lore#3772 wrote:

I was never part of the poe1 secret quest community. You guys have me now, I can do this with the right assistance rest assured. No riddle is greater than my comprehension unless it’s poorly designed.

If anyone wants to drop an info drop of all the known poe1 secret quest stuff I’ll read up on it. Otherwise I’m not interested.

Anyone who is interested in joining in on this PM me, I am building a guild of dedicated members

I knew there were secret quest in poe2 when I realized the abandoned Rhoa in act 2 is an unused asset.

What qualifies you more then the people from poe1? Lol

Not throwing shade on the abandoned rhoa idea but I would assume it's unused because it's gonna be where you get the rhoa mount skill that was teased in many videos.