One of the greatest parts ofBaldur’s Gate 3is just how many different ways you can be assigned quests. If you’re looking to experience even more action and lore as you adventure the Sword Coast, consider adding Speak With Animals to your list of spells.

You won’t just get quest starters from people, animals will send you on errands and adventures, too. You just need to know how to speak to them. One such animal is the Blue Jay which hangs out by the trolley near Rosymorn Monastery. This nervous bird is in a bit of a bind. His nest has been stolen, and he needs your help to reclaim it.

Baldur’s Gate 3: An image of the quest Blue Jay in dialogue

Basic Quest Steps

Like all side quests, there’s not a bunch of information given to you in the player journal about just where to go to complete the Blue Jay’s quest, but the journal does give you abasic framework of steps.

Here are thebasic quest stepsfor you to follow:

Luckily, thejournal will update youas you enter different stages in the quest-line to help you stay on track.

If you’re worried you’re going in the wrong direction to get to the roof,keep wandering. When you’re on the right path, your journal will update to say you’vefound the Eagles' nestand must now kill them.

Baldur’s Gate 3: At image of Tav and Lae’Zel standing in front of the Blue Jay and his nest

Where To Find The Blue Jay

To start the quest, you need to haveSpeak With Animals equippedand must speak to the panicked Blue Jay.

There are several ways you may cast and use Speak With Animals, and your characterdoesn’t necessarily have to be a spell-casting classto do so. Although, we recommend you haveat least one characterin your partylearn Speak With Animalsif you want to get more animal-related quests later.

Baldur’s Gate 3: An image of the Giant Eagles on Rosymorn Monastery’s roof

you may use ascroll of Speak With Animalsor aSpeak With Animals potionto cast the effect on a character who does not know the spell.

There are also two versions of Speak With Animals for spell casters to use. Classes likeWizard and Sorcerercanexpend spell slotsto cast the spellonce per long rest, while classes likeRanger and Druidcan learn Speak With Animals as aritual spellwhichwon’t expend spell slots.

Baldur’s Gate 3: An image of the player character in dialogue with the Rosymorn Eagles

When you have activated the Speak With Animals effect,talk to the Blue Jay. You can find the Blue Jay at(X: -57, Y: -19).

Youcannot trigger the questif you cannot speak to the Blue Jay.

Baldur’s gate 3: A screenshot of the Ceremonial Warhammer in the examination screen

You will have tohead down the slopefrom where you enter the mountain pass to find the Blue Jay. From the Netherese Portal,head rightand continue down that path until you get to theTrolley.

You canuse the Trolleyto reach the lower valley basin and thentake the path on your leftuntil you find the Blue Jay.

Baldur’s gate 3: An image of the player and party in dialogue with the Ancient Giant Eagle

You could also skip the trolley,head left of the Trolley station, and climb down theCragged Rocksuntil you hit a series of ledges.Jump onto the lower ledgesand follow the path that will lead you directly to the Blue Jay. We recommend this route as there’smore looton the way.

Talk to the Blue Jay andask him about his nest. This will trigger the quest. Someoptional dialogue choiceswith the Blue Jay will give you more information on theGithyanki Crècheand thedrunk lizards (Kobolds)residing in Rosymorn.

Talking to the Blue Jay also hints thathe may be trying to stealwhat is actually the Giant Eagles' nest. You will have to decide if helping the Blue Jay steal the nest is ethical to your gameplay. There areother waysto get the quest lootwithout helping the Blue Jayor killing the seemingly innocent Eagles.

While you’re talking to the Blue Jay, you may also noticea keyin his nest. You cantake the keywithout starting a fight with the Blue Jay. You can also steal from his nestwithout consequences, even though it shows up as red. You will findjewelryin the nest he stole.

How To Get To The Monastery Roof

Rosymorn Monastery is a pretty big place, and entering it isn’t obvious. Entering through the front door is a no-go, but you may enter through either theleft wing or right wingof the monastery.

On the left side of the monastery, you’ll find abroken windowleading to a wine cellar. If you asked the Blue Jay about thedrunk lizards, you’ll know that there are a bunch ofdrunk koboldswaiting for you in the cellar.

Alternatively, you can also enter the left wing through thebarricaded windowon the very left outer wall of the monastery’s left side. Breaking the boarded barricade(X:32, Y:25)with22 pointsof bludgeoning, force, or fire damage will give you an entrance straight into the cellar with the kobolds.

We don’t recommend entering the monastery on the kobold side as you’llhit a lot more combat encountersthat way.

If you want a slightly less combat-heavy route, you can enter the monastery from theright side. Backtrack down to where you met the Blue Jay and follow the path at thelowest elevation. This path will lead you down to anElegant Chest (X: 78, Y: -8)and someKnotted Roots.

Climb the Knotted Rootsup to a small courtyard. There’s a chunk of the monastery wall missing and you can enter that way. From this side,jump up onto the broken staircaseto get to the second level. There’s aCrumbling Wall ( X: 105, Y: 37)on this landing that you will need to break.

You do not need to pass the passive check to find the crumbling wall. You can still destroy the wall with22 points of bludgeoning damage.

Behind the crumbling wall, exercise some caution. There is aGuardian of Faithwaiting inside that room.Entering the Guardian’s circlewill trigger combat, so if you don’t feel like picking a fight, make sure each of your party membersskirts around the circle.

From this room, you can eitherhead out the window,onto a ledge,and through a series ofother windowsto re-enter the monastery, or you canlockpick the doorto the Guardian’s room. Either method will take you back into the monastery.

On the second level of the monastery,head towards the ‘sound of crying’, butdo notenter the room where the crying is coming from. You will triggeryet another battle. Instead, destroy the25 HP barricade at (X: 59, Y: 50)and head towards the empty pool.

There is also aburied treasure stashin the empty pool at(X: 50, Y: 59). You can either pass a survival check or dig at this location. If you haveScratchwith you, he will point to the stash.

There are someKnotted Rootsby the pool.Climb these roots, and you will make it to themonastery roofwhere you will find the Eagles and a fancy-looking machine.

How To Defeat The Giant Eagles At Rosymorn Monastery

When you approach the Giant Eagles, you canspeak to themif you haveSpeak With Animals active. When speaking to the Eagles, you’re able to eitherattackthem straight away,accuse them of theft, orpass a persuasion checkto convince the Eagles that you are simply interested in the strange device on the roof.

Even if you decidenot to killthe Eagles, youstill have access to the quest rewards. However, if you want to get theBlood of Lathander, you willneed the Ceremonial Warhammerhidden in the Eagle’s Nest. You can eitherkill the Eagles or stealthinto the nest to grab the hammer.

The Giant Eagle fight can be a little challenging if you’re unprepared, and thedifficult terraindoesn’t help. Severalroots on the groundwillensnareyou if youfail your Dexterity save rolls, so make sure you’reavoiding the rootsas much as possible.

Plus, theAncient Giant Eaglehas a beefy health bar with62 HP. Her son, theGiant Eagle,has44 HP.

We calculated all stats and health bars while playing the game in theBalanced game mode. Total HP for enemies willincreasewith each additional level of difficulty, while player HPdecreases.

For thefirst roundof battle, you only have to worry about theAncient Eagle and her son, but when it’s theAncient Giant Eagle’s first turn,she willcall for reinforcements. If she is not killed before the reinforcements arrive,three more Giant Eagleswill join the fight, each one with44 HP.

The fight is doable, even if it seems like you’re being ganged up on. Try toavoid being hit by the Giant Eaglesas much as possible. The regular Giant Eagles can use the moveMultiattackwhich multiplies the damage your party takes when targeted. If you’re not careful, you can beone-shotby an Eagle.

Keep a good number ofcontrol spells, spell scrolls, and potionson your person.Ensnaring or entanglingthe Eagles is a great way to cut back on how many times you are targeted. You can also use spells likeDominate Beasttoturn the Eagles into allies.

Essentially, thebest strategyfor defeating the Giant Eagles boils down to the following:

Once you have killed the Eagles, the Blue Jay will fly up to the roof to ‘reclaim’ his nest.

If you did not want to kill the Giant Eagles and instead hadnon-lethalattacks toggled, theBlue Jay will peck the Eagles to deathupon returning to the roof. Thus, theonly wayto save the Eagles is torefuse to fightthem at all.

Quest Rewards And Completion

Talk to the Blue Jaywhen he returns to the monastery roof, and he willmark your mapwith the location of aburied treasure stash at (X: -3, Y: -30).This is aregularburied treasure mound that you can find bypassing a passive survival check,digging at the given coordinates, orbringing Scratchto the dig site.

Buried Treasure Chests haverandomized loot,but you may expect to findweapons, instruments, potions, gems,and a good chunk ofgold coinsin the chest the Blue Jay points you to. Even though loot is randomized, items are usually ofequal rarityeven when regenerated.

you may alsoloot the Giant EaglesforGiant Eagle Feathers- an alchemical ingredient - and loot theGiant Eagles' Nestfor theCeremonial Warhammer.You need to use this Warhammer in thestained glass puzzle roomto find theBlood of Lathander.

Quest Alternatives

Usually, the only way to get quest loot is to complete the quest, but the Reclaim The Blue Jay’s Nest quest is a little different. As touched on before, the Blue Jay’s quest reward isn’t something that only he can point you to.

When you talk to the Blue Jay you find out thathe stole the nest he’s hovering above, which implies that he’s trying to steal the Eagles' nest, too. And given that the Eagles' nest is so large, it’s likely that it wasnever the Blue Jay’s to begin with.

If you want to, there is even an option toavenge the bird whose nest the Blue Jay stole.

Theonly benefitto killing the Giant Eagles and giving the nest to the Blue Jay is that you’ll bepointed to the hidden treasureand get a bit of aneasier starton theBlood of Lathander quest.

If youdon’t want to killthe Ancient Giant Eagle and her son - who seem to never have stolen their nest from anyone - thenyou don’t haveto. you may choose topersuade the Giant Eaglesto leave you alone, and you can insteadloot the Ceremonial Warhammerfrom their nest usingstealthskills.

Similarly, you canbypass the questaltogether by heading to the coordinates of the buried treasure stash(X: -3, Y: -30)anddiggingin that location.Passing the survival checkwill reveal the chest to you anyway, andbringing Scratchalong will also reveal the treasure to you.

There isn’t any reason to kill the Giant Eagles just because the Blue Jay asks you to. At the end of the day, it all comes down tocharacter alignmentand how you want to play your game.