Plenty of wizard, rogue, and barbarian companions can be found throughout the classic Infinity Engine-style RPG Pillars of Eternity 2, but there’s an extra type of furry friend to recruit for even more customization options.
Pillars of Eternity 2 pets help to define your character build by shoring up skills you lack in, reinforcing your best skills to higher levels, and offering bonuses to the whole party just for following you around.
Most of these pets are found by exploring side rooms and rooftops across the the main city of Neketaka, but a few are much more difficult to track down as you sail across the Deadfire Archipelago.
Pillars of Eternity 2 Pet Locations
Screeching birds of prey, feisty kitty cats, faithful hounds, and even baby dragons can be discovered and added to your collection if you know where to look.
While your inventory can be filled to the brim with pets, the bonuses listed below only apply when the pet is in the actual pet slot on the main character (located below the belt slot on the right side of the character rag doll). If you want a place to house your extra pets on board the Defiant, you can buy the Menagerie ship upgrade at the Neketaka shipyard shop.
Besides the specific pets found across the game world listed below, you can also buy pets directly by talking to Ereti in the west of Kahonga Palace in the Serpent’s Crown area of Neketaka.
Comet
- Player Effect: +1 Might
- Party Wide Effect: Bonus Deflection against attacks
- Location: Console Command
Hit the ~ key and type cosmic dog and then tap Enter to put Comet in your inventory. Unlike the other Pillars 2 console cheats, the commands to create cosmic pets won’t turn off achievements.
Comet Pet Location
Luna
- Player Effect: +1 Dexterity
- Party Wide Effect: Enemy weapon attacks will Graze instead of Hit more often
- Location: Console Command
Hit the ~ key and type cosmic cat and then tap Enter to put Luna in your inventory. Unlike the other Pillars 2 console cheats, the commands to create cosmic pets won’t turn off achievements.
Luna Pet Location
Orbit
- Player Effect: +1 Perception
- Party Wide Effect: Party members move faster during combat
- Location: Console Command
Hit the ~ key and type cosmic bird and then tap Enter to put Orbit in your inventory. Unlike the other Pillars 2 console cheats, the commands to create cosmic pets won’t turn off achievements.
Orbit Pet Location
Gosha
- Player Effect: +1 Perception
- Party Wide Effect: Enemies less likely to land crits with weapon attacks
- Location: Engwithan Digsite
Gosha is found in the Engiwthan Digsite east of Port Maje (before you get your ship fixed). The cat is located just to the east of the upper entrance to the ancient training hall in the area that looks like a stone a mphitheater filled with broken seating.
Gosha Pet Location
Xopn’aua
- Player Effect: +2 Insight, +1 Metaphysics
- Party Wide Effect: Slight bonus to Will
- Location: Neketaka (Queen’s Berth)
To find this forsaken dog, you need to head to the unmarked, brownish-red home found between Robero’s Fine Fashion and the Back Alley at the northern end of the Queen’s Berth area.
Xopn’aua Pet Location
Toby
- Player Effect: +1 Perception
- Party Wide Effect: Slight bonus to max Health
- Location: Neketaka (Queen’s Berth)
To find Toby, head inside the Vailian Trading Company Headquarters in the Queen’s Berth Area, and take the exit to the rooftop terrace that looks out over the Berth. The lost dog is standing there near a barrel and a chair.
Toby Pet Location
Mirri
- Player Effect: +1 Intellect
- Party Wide Effect: Enemy weapon attacks against the party score Criticals less frequently
- Location: Tikiwara
You will travel to Tikiwara on the eastern side of the Archipelago during the Storms of Poko Kahara quest (or you can just sail there from the get-go if you want). When you reach Tikiwara, this abandoned kitty is found on the beach at the southwest side, by the rock arch.
Mirri Pet Location
Desert Wurm Hatchling
- Player Effect: +5 to all Defenses against ground-based attacks
- Party Wide Effect: Some Misses with ranged weapons convert to Grazes
- Location: Poko Kohara Ruins
When you travel east from Tikiwara to find the lost expedition, eventually you will explore the Poko Kohara Ruins.
Before fighting the titan and going inside the ruins themselves, check the southern area of this map near the oasis to fight some desert monsters. If you search the two white rocks south of the tree, you will find the desert wurm hatchling as an inventory item.
Desert Wurm Hatchling Pet Location
Kaz
- Player Effect: +1 Stealth, +1 Survival
- Party Wide Effect: Some enemy Hits against the party are converted to Grazes
- Location: Hasongo
You will travel to Hasongo during the Distant Light quest as you look for the luminous adra pillars visited by Eothas. While exploring this area filled with Naga, you have to move between sections of the map by swimming through flooded areas inside buildings.
When you get to the far left side of the map, head into the Fleet Master’s Office to find Kaz whimpering in the corner.
Kaz Pet Location
Corlagon
- Player Effect: +5% damage to area effect attacks
- Party Wide Effect: Healing potions and spells are slightly more effective
- Location: Hasongo
After grabbing Kaz in the Fleet Master’s Office, head inside the tower with the glowing green light at the far left side of the map. After dealing with the Naga, you can travel up to the top of the tower into a new map section to find this lonely cat.
Corlagon Pet Location
Prissy
- Player Effect: +15% effectiveness for healing potions and spells
- Party Wide Effect: Party members regain a small amount of health when landing a killing blow
- Location: Neketaka (Serpent’s Crown)
Head inside the palace in the Serpent’s Crown area, then travel through the stairs to the Kahanga Palace Rooftop map. From there, you can see an exit that leads out onto the terrace that looks over the Serpent’s Crown area but is still technically part of the palace map. The stray cat is between the two doors by the History/Arcana trainer.
Prissy Pet Location
Eviee
- Player Effect: +2 Resolve and resistance to Resolve afflictions
- Party Wide Effect: Resolve afflictions on party members have reduced duration
- Location: Neketaka (Serpent’s Crown)
Eviee is found in the side room inside Muhai’s Estate in the Serpent’s Crown section of Neketaka.
Eviee Pet Location
Frau Nils
- Player Effect: +3 Accuracy with Melee attacks
- Party Wide Effect: Small bonuses to all party member Health
- Location: Neketaka (The Sacred Stair)
In the Sacred Stair area with all the temples, head to the southeast side and enter the flooded Temple of Gaun. This abandoned cat is standing between High Priestess Saewyn and the giant tree.
Frau Nils Pet Location
Animancy Cat
- Player Effect: +2 Metaphysics, +1 Arcana
- Party Wide Effect: Summoned creatures gain bonus Might and Penetration
- Location: Neketaka (The Sacred Stair)
Animancy Cat is available to buy for 8,500 coins from the merchant named Tiabo standing outside the animancy headquarters in The Sacred Stair.
Deus
- Player Effect: +1 Constitution
- Party Wide Effect: Party members regain some health when landing a killing blow
- Location: Neketaka (The Gullet)
When you travel to the slum area of Neketaka called The Gullet, you can actually see Deus up on the broken-down terrace of the pirate bar called The Hole just by walking to the eastern side of the area.
To reach the dog, go inside The Hole, take the stairs up to the second floor with the locked rooms, and then go south through the door that reaches the terrace.
Deus Pet Location
Onyx
- Player Effect: +1 Perception
- Party Wide Effect: Party members gain bonus defense against any attack that causes disease
- Location: Neketaka (The Gullet)
After grabbing Deus on the terrace, go back down to the main floor of The Hole and head through the hallway behind the bartender. In the far back room, you can find this worried pig near Birta the cook.
Onyx Pet Location
Ickis
- Player Effect: +3 to defense against body and mind afflictions
- Party Wide Effect: Bonus defense against poison and disease attacks
- Location: Neketaka (The Gullet)
This forsaken cat is found in front of Pitli’s Sanctuary at the far southwest end of The Gullet.
Ickis Pet Location
Algol
- Player Effect: -20% Constitution affliction durations
- Party Wide Effect: Party members regain health when landing a killing blow
- Location: Neketaka (Delver’s Row)
To reach Delver’s Row, head through the Narrows exit at the west side of the Gullet. If you’ve already taken the lift in the Gullet down to the undercity dungeon area, instead travel west and then south to reach the map with the rogue watershapers and the docks on the river. At the far northwest edge of that map is another lift that goes up to Delver’s Row. Algol is found in the tunnel at the west side on the way to the Spindle Man’s chamber.
Algol Pet Location
Jules
- Player Effect: +1 Perception
- Party Wide Effect: Healing spells and potions are more effective
- Location: Neketaka (Periki’s Overlook)
This stray cat can be found just outside the entrance to the Watershaper’s Guild at the northern end of the the Periki’s Overlook area.
Jules Pet Location
Rasper
- Player Effect: 5% of incoming Hits converted to Grazes
- Party Wide Effect: Healing spells and potions slightly more effective
- Location: Neketaka (Periki’s Overlook)
If you enter from the eastern side, Rasper is found just to the side of the entrance to Iolfr’s Raiments.
Rasper Pet Location
Pozzi
- Player Effect: +1 to all fire key word power levels
- Party Wide Effect: Small bonus to Reflex defense
- Location: Neketaka (Sacred Stair)
This forsaken cat is found at the east side of the Temple to Magran in the Sacred Stair area.
Pozzi Pet Location
Peter
- Player Effect: +15% damage to area effect attacks
- Party Wide Effect: Area effect attacks of all party members are slightly increased in radius
- Location: Oathbinder’s Sanctum
You can find the Oathbinder’s Sanctum island by heading north of Port Maje and northwest of the island with the Cavern of Xaur Tuk-Tuk. This area is typically found during the Lost Dues in Good Faith quest given by Kahn.
Peter is hiding in a hallway on the north end of the third floor of the Oathbinder’s Sanctum. If you are all about fireballs and thrown stun grenades, this is the pet to get for his area effect increases.
Peter Pet Location
Abraham
- Player Effect: Reduces the Recovery penalty for wearing armor
- Party Wide Effect: Party members regain a small amount of health when landing a killing blow
- Location: Neketaka (Queen’s Berth)
In the Queen’s Berth area, head inside the Luminous Adra Mill, then go through the Rooftop Balcony exit to find the area where Abraham is sitting like a good boy.
Abraham Pet Location
Eliel
- Player Effect: +1 Resolve
- Party Wide Effect: Bonus to weapon damage
- Location: Hall of the Unseen (The Black Isles)
To reach this area, head south of Tikiwara until you come across the big black island with the lava at the center. Eliel is standing inside an inner hallway on the western side.
Eliel Pet Location
Chauncey
- Player Effect: +1 Dexterity
- Party Wide Effect: Enemy weapon attacks sometimes converted from Hits to Grazes
- Location: Dunnage (Lifter’s Refuge)
Dunnage is found on the far west side of the map, and this pig is located up the stairs in the Lifter’s Refuge docks area you first sail into.
Chauncey Pet Location
Hemp
- Player Effect: +1 Constitution
- Party Wide Effect: Bonus to Fortitude defense
- Location: Dunnage (Radiant Court)
Hemp is found at the far south end of the Radiant Court section of Dunnage, just below Ramaso’s stalls.
Hemp Pet Location
Bear Cub
- Player Effect: +8 Fortitude
- Party Wide Effect: Bonus to melee damage
- Location: Bentbranch Bog
For melee-focused parties, this is a killer pet! You can find him hiding in Bentbranch Bog, north of the port city Sayuka.
Bear Cub Pet
Twix
- Player Effect: +15 max Health
- Party Wide Effect: Recover some Health when landing a killing blow
- Location: Bentbranch Bog
This cat is also found in the same general location as the bear cub pet listed above.
Twix Pet Location
Grog
- Player Effect: +1 Resolve
- Party Wide Effect: Party cannot engage and is immune to engagement, party members will also die automatically if knocked unconscious
- Location: Ashen Maw
This tiny wild troll pet is found just north of the docks at Ashen Maw (the fiery location at the north end of the map where you chase Eothas after facing him at the second luminous adra pillars).
Grog Pet Location
Nalvi
- Player Effect: +1 Resolve
- Party Wide Effect: Reduced penalty to armor Recovery
- Location: Junvik Village
Nalvi is on the east side of this village, which is found all the way in the upper-left corner of the Archipelago (to the northwest of Ori o Koiki).
Nalvi Pet Location
Lil’ Babs
- Player Effect: +1 Dexterity
- Party Wide Effect: Deflection bonus to enemy weapon attacks
- Location: Motare o Kozi
Lil’ Babs is found in the Motare o Kozi swamp on an island far north of Tikiwara and forth northwest of Neketaka. When you first arrive on this island, you will have to either fight the locals or talk your way past them to gain entrance to the swamp.
Lil’ Babs Pet Location
Concelhaut’s Skull
- Player Effect: Summon a ghostly visage of Concelhaut 1/rest
- Party Wide Effect: Bonus to all Corrode damage dealt
- Location: Bekarna’s Observatory
Arkemyr will give you a quest to retrieve Bekarna’s research at her observatory after you burgle his mansion. At the end of the quest, kill the lich Concelhaut and loot his body to take the still-living skull as a pet!
Concelhaut’s Skull Pet Location
Nemnok The Petite
- Player Effect: +1 maximum Empower points
- Party Wide Effect: +1 level spell cast for wizards, druids, and priests
- Location: Drowned Barrows
If you’ve been paying attention to all the books about imp summoning throughout the game, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that new “god” Nemnok is just an imp run amok on magic energy. When you defeat Nemnok in the Drowned Barrows (north of Junvik village), select the option to recruit him as a companion. He’s not stoked about going from god to pet, but he’ll do it. Nemnok will also loudly berate the party when in the pet slot, so there’s a trade off for his bonuses!
Nemnok Pet Location
There are almost certainly more pets found across the Deadfire Archipelago, and we may have missed a few — let us know if you’ve come across any other pets, and we’ll get them added to the list! You can also check out the rest of our Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire guides here.
