Side Quests

Side quests are quests that consists of only a single chapter, and are separated into two main categories: Ruins and Pacification quests. Ruins quests have a random chance of being triggered anytime a ruin is searched. Pacification quests are given by minor factions after using the Parley action on a village, and will always result in all villages in that region being pacified upon success; these quests require the Language Square technology to trigger, and therefore are unavailable to the Necrophages, or any custom faction with the pitiless trait.

There is also a special category of side quest referred to as Lore Quests, which were added by the Lost Tales add-on. These quests all focus on the various minor factions of the game, and provide more information about them. They can be triggered by searching ruins, talking with a village, or by having one of the appropriate minor factions assimilated.

While one could consider every quest that isn't one of the Faction Quests a side quest, this page doesn't include two other types of side quests: Naval Quests and Global Quests. Naval Quests have been put onto their own page due to the fact that all of them require the Tempest expansion to access, while Global Quests involve all other factions simultaneously.