One of the greatest parts of Baldur's Gate 3 is 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.

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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.

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 a basic framework of steps.

Here are the basic quest steps for you to follow:

  • Meet the Blue Jay - You will need to have Speak With Animals equipped for this.
  • Kill The Eagles - Head to Rosymorn Monastery's roof to find and kill the eagles.
  • Talk To The Blue Jay - Talk to the Blue Jay on the roof after killing the eagles to receive your reward.

Luckily, the journal will update you as 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've found the Eagles' nest and must now kill them.

Where To Find The Blue Jay

To start the quest, you need to have Speak With Animals equipped and must speak to the panicked Blue Jay.

There are several ways you can cast and use Speak With Animals, and your character doesn't necessarily have to be a spell-casting class to do so. Although, we recommend you have at least one character in your party learn Speak With Animals if you want to get more animal-related quests later.

You can use a scroll of Speak With Animals or a Speak With Animals potion to 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 like Wizard and Sorcerer can expend spell slots to cast the spell once per long rest, while classes like Ranger and Druid can learn Speak With Animals as a ritual spell which won't expend spell slots.

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).

You cannot trigger the quest if you cannot speak to the Blue Jay.

You will have to head down the slope from where you enter the mountain pass to find the Blue Jay. From the Netherese Portal, head right and continue down that path until you get to the Trolley.

You can use the Trolley to reach the lower valley basin and then take the path on your left until you find the Blue Jay.

You could also skip the trolley, head left of the Trolley station, and climb down the Cragged Rocks until you hit a series of ledges. Jump onto the lower ledges and follow the path that will lead you directly to the Blue Jay. We recommend this route as there's more loot on the way.

Talk to the Blue Jay and ask him about his nest. This will trigger the quest. Some optional dialogue choices with the Blue Jay will give you more information on the Githyanki Crèche and the drunk lizards (Kobolds) residing in Rosymorn.

Talking to the Blue Jay also hints that he may be trying to steal what 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 are other ways to get the quest loot without helping the Blue Jay or killing the seemingly innocent Eagles.

While you're talking to the Blue Jay, you may also notice a key in his nest. You can take the key without starting a fight with the Blue Jay. You can also steal from his nest without consequences, even though it shows up as red. You will find jewelry in 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 can enter through either the left wing or right wing of the monastery.

On the left side of the monastery, you'll find a broken window leading to a wine cellar. If you asked the Blue Jay about the drunk lizards, you'll know that there are a bunch of drunk kobolds waiting for you in the cellar.

Alternatively, you can also enter the left wing through the barricaded window on the very left outer wall of the monastery's left side. Breaking the boarded barricade (X:32, Y:25) with 22 points of 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'll hit a lot more combat encounters that way.

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

Climb the Knotted Roots up 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 staircase to get to the second level. There's a Crumbling 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 with 22 points of bludgeoning damage.

Behind the crumbling wall, exercise some caution. There is a Guardian of Faith waiting inside that room. Entering the Guardian's circle will trigger combat, so if you don't feel like picking a fight, make sure each of your party members skirts around the circle.

From this room, you can either head out the window, onto a ledge, and through a series of other windows to re-enter the monastery, or you can lockpick the door to 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', but do not enter the room where the crying is coming from. You will trigger yet another battle. Instead, destroy the 25 HP barricade at (X: 59, Y: 50) and head towards the empty pool.

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

There are some Knotted Roots by the pool. Climb these roots, and you will make it to the monastery roof where 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 can speak to them if you have Speak With Animals active. When speaking to the Eagles, you can either attack them straight away, accuse them of theft, or pass a persuasion check to convince the Eagles that you are simply interested in the strange device on the roof.

Even if you decide not to kill the Eagles, you still have access to the quest rewards. However, if you want to get the Blood of Lathander, you will need the Ceremonial Warhammer hidden in the Eagle's Nest. You can either kill the Eagles or stealth into the nest to grab the hammer.

The Giant Eagle fight can be a little challenging if you're unprepared, and the difficult terrain doesn't help. Several roots on the ground will ensnare you if you fail your Dexterity save rolls, so make sure you're avoiding the roots as much as possible.

Plus, the Ancient Giant Eagle has a beefy health bar with 62 HP. Her son, the Giant Eagle, has 44 HP.

We calculated all stats and health bars while playing the game in the Balanced game mode. Total HP for enemies will increase with each additional level of difficulty, while player HP decreases.

For the first round of battle, you only have to worry about the Ancient Eagle and her son, but when it's the Ancient Giant Eagle's first turn, she will call for reinforcements. If she is not killed before the reinforcements arrive, three more Giant Eagles will join the fight, each one with 44 HP.

The fight is doable, even if it seems like you're being ganged up on. Try to avoid being hit by the Giant Eagles as much as possible. The regular Giant Eagles can use the move Multiattack which multiplies the damage your party takes when targeted. If you're not careful, you can be one-shot by an Eagle.

Keep a good number of control spells, spell scrolls, and potions on your person. Ensnaring or entangling the Eagles is a great way to cut back on how many times you are targeted. You can also use spells like Dominate Beast to turn the Eagles into allies.

Essentially, the best strategy for defeating the Giant Eagles boils down to the following:

  • Hit for large amounts of damage as early on as possible.
  • Prevent the Ancient Giant Eagle from summoning reinforcements.
  • Avoid getting entangled in terrain.
  • Use control spells to prevent the Eagles from taking their turns.

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 had non-lethal attacks toggled, the Blue Jay will peck the Eagles to death upon returning to the roof. Thus, the only way to save the Eagles is to refuse to fight them at all.

Quest Rewards And Completion

Talk to the Blue Jay when he returns to the monastery roof, and he will mark your map with the location of a buried treasure stash at (X: -3, Y: -30). This is a regular buried treasure mound that you can find by passing a passive survival check, digging at the given coordinates, or bringing Scratch to the dig site.

Buried Treasure Chests have randomized loot, but you can expect to find weapons, instruments, potions, gems, and a good chunk of gold coins in the chest the Blue Jay points you to. Even though loot is randomized, items are usually of equal rarity even when regenerated.

You can also loot the Giant Eagles for Giant Eagle Feathers - an alchemical ingredient - and loot the Giant Eagles' Nest for the Ceremonial Warhammer. You need to use this Warhammer in the stained glass puzzle room to find the Blood 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 that he 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 was never the Blue Jay's to begin with.

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

The only benefit to killing the Giant Eagles and giving the nest to the Blue Jay is that you'll be pointed to the hidden treasure and get a bit of an easier start on the Blood of Lathander quest.

If you don't want to kill the Ancient Giant Eagle and her son - who seem to never have stolen their nest from anyone - then you don't have to. You can choose to persuade the Giant Eagles to leave you alone, and you can instead loot the Ceremonial Warhammer from their nest using stealth skills.

Similarly, you can bypass the quest altogether by heading to the coordinates of the buried treasure stash (X: -3, Y: -30) and digging in that location. Passing the survival check will reveal the chest to you anyway, and bringing Scratch along 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 to character alignment and how you want to play your game.

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