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Can any body give me a clue how to solve this without killing the dwarf? the quest log isnt exactly helpful as it just repeats the same crap over and over (is a demon, likes pain).

I explored the entire island and only got this buffling quest left.

Also what does the abandoned vault do?

While the pillars are still up, attack him until he is really low. When he starts screaming at you to be free, you can kill the pillars and he should spring out. You may have to heal the dwarf several times, but I freed him when the dwarf was under 50 hp.

This one is giving me real problems; it's very difficult to keep the dwarf alive and the demon once released just immediately starts battle and permanently possesses one of my characters unless I reduce their health to almost nothing too: I did manage to eventually chase it off but it just did exactly the same thing again so I'm guessing I'm missing an important step somewhere.

Mostly, though, the dialogue just reverts back to the usual "I know you're out there" over and over and nothing else happens: no amount of attacking and healing the dwarf seems to make any difference at that point.

I saved the dwarf!
First i damaged the dwarf till he fell down with the chains still attached to him. healed him up and then conversed with him and then continued to attack him till he fell down a second time (knocking down and dealing all damage with the same character. I then conversed with him again and the demon demands to be released. i broke the chains and the dwarf and demon where released separate. The demon possessed one of my characters as soon as it took its turn. I attacked my possessed character to about half health, healed them to full HP and then attacked my character which landed a critical hit putting them on 20 HP at which point the demon appeared again with only 300 HP. Killed the demon and conversed with the still alive dwarf. (on previous attempts the demon had possessed the dwarf again straight away, but i just reloaded and tried again).

Hope this helps guys! its a tricky one.

So I managed to save the dwarf. I got him low then broken the chains, though it seemed a bit inconsistent. I'm not sure if you have to break the chains while he's on low hp AND has his armor broken. I'm playing a solo game so I cast Bless on my char which seemed to prevent the demon from controlling my one char. Hope this helps!

Played through this like 7-8x to get it right.

The demon has a set distance in which it can possess your characters. It will possess either on its own move or if you attack it within that distance. That distance is pretty damn big, but it's JUST below the max distance of casters with the additional 2m range talent.

I found teleporting it into a corner, and using summons to block its path out (didn't have a summoner, but necro and/or cat/condor summons worked), while keeping everyone at a large enough distance did the trick. Killed the demon with the summons (close range melee, can not be possessed by the demon) and casters (at max casting range), and it has decent loot.

Think smoke or anything that blocks visibility will also help. Didn't try, but I'm sure Blessed would help here too. Also I couldn't ever deal it enough damage in 1 hit to break its shields, while disabling it, so not sure if that'd work either.

Luckily the dwarf for me was decent in the fight, staying invisible and healing/magic shielding my characters.