Diablo 4 has one of the greatest stories in the action role-playing game franchise so far, and the main quest keeps evolving to include more quests and loot. Aside from the story of Lilith and her minions, there are a few more interesting tales that players can uncover through adventuring across Sanctuary by talking to NPCs, exploring obscure areas, and finding a variety of interesting side quests.

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Players should consider taking a break from grinding levels or exploring the main story and take a moment to find and complete these dangerous or compelling anecdotes not directly related to the main storyline or its related tasks. These might have a spurious connection to the main plot, or take place in the same location, but these side quests stand alone as their own stories.

Updated May 25, 2024 by Kristy Ambrose: After a few patches and upgrades, and the most recent addition of Loot Reborn, Diablo 4 has added several new quests to the main storyline for players to explore and enjoy.

The side quests of Sanctuary have escaped from the changes mostly unscathed, with the rewards remaining the same but now including more options for upgrades and more incentive to visit Nightmare Dungeons and adventuring in World Tier 4.

1 Shroud Of The Father

Speak To Voszalko In Nevesk

• Return to Voszalko with The Child's Caul for Renown, gold, and a Salvage Cache.

"Shroud of the Father" is considered a side quest even though the prerequisites included quests that were tied to the Epilogue of the original campaign. Voszalko is still hanging around Nevesk, and he has a quest that leads to a nearby dungeon just north of town.

The Child's Caul is contained in an Undisturbed Sarcophagus deep in a dungeon called Mercy's Reach. Interact with the sarcophagus to fight a mini-boss and get The Child's Caul, a rare item that looks like a cloth bag. Return it to Voszalko for Renown, gold, and a random selection of gems, gear, and materials.

2 Consumed By Pride

The Northern Steepes, Home Of The Crane Tribe

• Return to Ealda for Renown, gold, experience points, and a Leather Cache.

While exploring Sanctuary the player will encounter various tribes named after different animals. Each quest line for these tribes is incredibly fascinating as players begin to do favors for these tribes in the hope of allying themselves with them. However, one of the most intriguing lines of side quests from these tribes must be the ones that involve the Crane Tribe.

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Talking to the leader of the Crane Tribe reveals that they are looked down upon by the other Tribes due to an event that happened in the past, and now they must fend for themselves. This makes the player the Crane Tribe's only hope during quests like "Consumed By Pride" and many like it where the player uncovers that the veterans of the Crane Tribe are turning to darker means such as cannibalism.

3 Legacy Of Light's Watch

Speak To Zalar in Margave, Fractured Peaks

• Return to Zalan for Renown, experience points, and a Salvage Cache.

In the town of Margrave, next to a campfire, there's an NPC named Zalan Coste who seems to be doubled over in pain. Speak to him, and he'll tell players that he was wounded in the nearby dungeon of Light's Watch trying to recover his mother's paintings.

It's too dangerous for someone with no fighting skills, so the task is given to the protagonist instead. When the player enters the dungeon, their quest log will update and list the three Archivist Journals hidden in the dungeon. These aren't exactly the paintings, but the records for where the paintings might be found, which is the next best thing.

This not only gets the players some renown, experience points, and a salvage cache but opens up later hidden quests. Now it's possible to find Zalan's mother's paintings while out exploring and return them to the rightful owner.

4 The Bear Of Blackweald

Speak To Torben At The Fat Goose Inn

• Return to Torben for Renown, gold, experience, and an Ancestral Rare two-handed sword, The Bear's Claw.

Torben appears to be a gentle tavern owner who can be found in the Under the Fat Goose Inn. After helping his patriots of the Inn, Torben will have a quest available to players that allows them to uncover a chunk of Torben's past. It's uncovered that Torben used to be referred to as the Bear who was a member of the Blackweald Mercenary company.

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This Bear had done many terrible things in his past during the darkest times of Sanctuary though he finally found peace. However, the leader of this group that Torben thought he had killed lives, and still haunts the Seared Hollow nearby. The player must help Torben find his peace again by giving his former companions eternal rest.

5 Shattered Tribute

The Bear Tribe Settlement, Fractured Peaks

• Return to Sena for Renown, gold, experience, and a Leather Cache.

"Ally Of The Bear Tribe" is the nickname given to the quests players can do to grind renown and unlock later quests in this region, and it starts with this quest. The Bear Tribe is another tribe the player can find early into their exploration of Sanctuary in Diablo 4.

Players have to travel to a delve called Hoarfrost Demise to collect 25 Ice Clan Bones and return to Sena in the settlement. If players go through the whole quest chain, they can take part in the quest "Call of the Ancients" which makes for a great finale.

6 Hubris Smiles Back

Fill Up The Augury Of Bones

• Renown, gold, experience, and a Salvage Cache.

"Hubris Smiles Back" is an interesting side quest that explores a mysterious entity known as The Grinning One. However, before a player can complete this side quest, they must first complete its previous quest, "Augury of Bones." After collecting bone dust for the character Ogai so he can snort it, which is best not to question, the player will be told to meet him at the Grinning Labyrinth.

Players will then be tasked to collect Baneful Oblations from inside the dungeon for Ogai to use in his ritual. Players are likely to be very confused, and this confusion will continue even after the quest line is complete, making Hubris Smiles Back one of the stranger side quests in Diablo 4.

7 Cries Of Innocence

Speak to Vendral Trost In Fractured Peaks

• Return to Vendral for Renown, gold, experience, and a Murmuring Cache.

The perfect bone-chilling quest for the frosty hills and valleys of this cold and snowy zone, players can find this quest by speaking to an NPC named Vendral Trost. He's standing on a bridge just outside the eastern road leading from Kyovoshad, and he has a tragic story to tell.

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Against his better judgment, Vendral sent his troubled son Corik to a place called the Black Asylum. After the boy passes away, his ghostly visage still haunts his father, and Vendral asks the character to visit the Black Asylum, which is just as terrible as it sounds and gives his restless soul peace. Players can visit this dungeon and complete it without finding this quest, but some extra XP and rewards don't hurt.

8 Izel Of The Vizjerei

Complete "A Voice From The Past" And Speak With Izel

• Restore Izel and receive Renown, gold, a Murmuring Cache, and the Seal of the Vizjerei.

"Hubris Smiles Back" isn't the only peculiar side quest to be found in Sanctuary as "Izel of the Vizjerei" will have players quite literally talking to a statue in Kehjistan. Approaching the statue of a woman will begin the quest where the player will be instructed to help Izel in gaining back her human form.

Players will need to complete two previous quests before they can take Izel to the Athenaeum, although she first requires a short tour of what Kehjistan has become. Without spoiling the ending of the quest, players may be surprised by its outcome.

9 First Among Wolves

Speak To Artair In Wraithstead, Scosglen

• Renown, experience points, a Herb cache.

Scosglen is the second area players will explore due to needing to adventure to this region during Act Two. Just like the rest of Diablo 4, there are many interesting side quests to help with but arguably out of all of them First Among Wolves is by far the best.

Players are likely to have encountered other side quests in Scosglen that have discussed regular folk becoming werewolves. During First Among Wolves players help Artair figure out why this is happening and continue to help him through two other quests on how to stop more people from becoming them.

10 Unsafe Travels

Unlock This Quest By Speaking to Mahjoob In Kehjistan

• Renown, experience, and a Herb cache, also unlocks "Road to Ruin" and "The Only Cure."

Kehjistan is an area of the map players are likely to explore later in the game though there are plenty of fascinating side quests there. A trio of quests a player is sure to want to explore starts with Unsafe Travels. Players will find an incredibly sick man who has been poisoned in the Scorching Dunes, he asks for the player's aid to find a plant that is sure to heal him.

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After giving him the plant, players are likely to find this man again who is now covered in flies, they must guide him back to his base while protecting him from the flies that surround him. By the end of this guest players will become not only educated about one of the monsters in the game but also incredibly traumatized.

11 Hammer of the Champion

Bear Tribe Refuge, Seat Of The Heavens

• Return to Greganoch, progress to the next quest in the chain along with getting Renown, gold, experience, and a Leather Cache.

Fractured Peaks is a wild and lonely place of snow and mountains, and one of the important places to visit while exploring this zone is the Bear Tribe Refuge. This small town, which is really just a rough settlement, has a few basic amenities and some NPCs with interesting backstories.

The Bear Tribe has a long history that fans can learn about through a quest chain that involves either doing tasks for the Bear Tribe's leader or returning specific found items in the zone to the NPCs here. The Hammer Of The Champion is the quest that follows Beast's Challenge, and the player has to infiltrate a dungeon to retrieve a weapon called Grizzly's Maul.

Quests that involve delves or dungeons are always better. There's often more than one quest players can finish in one trip since virtually every nook and cranny of Sanctuary's underground has a quest or task within, so they can gather up more loot, gold, and experience points along the way.

12 Malady Of The Soul

Speak To Sister Octavia In Kyovoshad

• Return to Octavia and progress to the following quest in the chain.

Unsurprisingly, one of the greatest side quests players will want to get involved in can be completed early into the game as it takes place in the starting city of Kyovoshad. Players will help a priestess as she completes a variety of exorcisms behind the church's back to help the people of the city.

Players are likely to bond with Sister Octavia as she seems to want to help people instead of simply burning all those who are possessed. This leaves many players to jump at the chance to help Sister Octavia one final time in the quest "Faith in Blood."

Diablo 4

Developer(s)

Blizzard

Genre(s)

Action RPG , Hack and Slash

Released

June 6, 2023

Platform(s)

PC , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S