Fable 2 offers a great deal of extra content, many of which you are required to do in order to earn renown so you can continue in the main quest, but of course there are plenty of extra quests that allow you to continue beyond the requirements of the game.
Reward: Dash's Goggles, Barnum's Thesaurus
Renown: 250
Go into the Sandgoose Inn and talk to the guy crying near the railing, he is the guy who took the picture of you as a child and now he's got a big problem. He will need you to get all of the Bandits out of Rookridge. Follow the path to Rookridge Inn, where you will encounter your first group on Bandits, and in the closet above the stairs there will be a chest.
You'll encounter the Bandit Dash, who runs from you. When you chase him you will come by more Bandits, on the tracks near the hut you will find a silver key. Follow Dash down the tracksand fight a couple more groups of bandits near some water. You'll see Dash on some stone ruins, shoot him and he will die immediately. Walk up to him and open the chest for some bandit gear. Then travel back to Oakfield.
Reward: Son of Chesty, 100,000 gold, Diamond of Sorrow
Renown: 3000
Before starting this you need to have around 230,000 gold, give or take 5000. When you collect the required amount of gold travel to the tower where you will face some enemies and a Spire Shard, the shard is easy to kill if you use magic and keep your distance. After you fight them off, go up and buy the Bloodstone Tower. Go to the stop, you'll pass by the Cullis Gate that is supposed to be wrecked, and go to bed.
You'll dream of being a child again, walk up and open the chest ahead of you. Read the note and follow the trail another chest, open the second chest and read the note. Kill off the group of monsters it spawns. Make your way back and open the third chest, the Hobbes you'll face seem big and strong, but only seems that way because you're a child again. After you kill them follow the quest path to another chest and open it.
After you've killed the Hollow Men follow the trail again, to your right after the gate is a statue, mimick its expression and go to the next chest. A banshee will appear, kill it as you normally would by defeating the minions then slashing at it. Keep going after you're done that. If you go off trail to your right there is a house with a chest (the good kind) in it. Continue and open up the next chest, fight the Balverines. Open the chest again to receive your prize and go back to the bed.
Welcome back to reality.
Renown: 750
Giles can be found in Brightwood, accept his plea for you to "bring justice" to the Bandit Ripper. Giles will take him dead or alive. After accepting the quest the golden trail will lead you to Ripper's camp.
When you walk into the camp you will be pleasently welcomed by a large group of Bandits, there are much more here than any other fight you've been in so far. Think of it as fighting Hollow Men, but against Bandits you will synchronize their attacks.
After killing of all of the Bandits, Ripper will ambush you from one of the trees. Don't worry about Giles' request, encounter Ripper as you would any other enemy. Take notice that he will use some will, specefically Time Control. After you beat Ripper up enough he will forfeit which gives you the chance to either kill him or spare his life and let Giles take over. If you kill him you will obtain evil points, and vice versa.
Reward: Banshee Rags
Renown: 4000
You remember these assholes from earlier, well they're at it again and you get to cover up what they've done for a second time. Meet Mrs. Spade in The Cow & Corset in Bowerstone Market. She will tell you that her son is an idiot (in short) and she needs ou to go rescue him, no problem, if you don't mind going to Wraithmarsh.
Travel to Wraithmarsh to the Drowned Farm and a golden trail should lead you to a nearby well. When you are in "The Well" you'll be greeted by three Hollow Men in the foyer alongside the sounds of swords clashing. Down the path you will see Sam and Max being attacked by Hollow Men, save them. So apparently these guys unleashed Evil upon Bloodstone, and even worse is that their mother has to chase grown men around!
Travel to The Waterfront and follow the trail to the dock where you will meet the Banshee. It is the same as any other Banshee, first kill the shadow children then slash at the Banshee itself. It may be a little awkward at most since you don't have much room to play with. When you've slaughtered the Evil go back to Bowerstone and speak with Mrs. Spade. When you talk to her you can use eiher emote or stay quiet, she'll be happy she didn't have to do anything either way.
Reward: Hobbe Leg
Renown: 3500
Go to the Temple of Light and speak to err, Tommy? Anyway, he asks for you to clear his cave (home) from Hobbes, not something we haven't done before though, right? Anyway, go to Echo Mine where you will be greeted by a swarm of Hobbes outside.
You only need to kill fifteen stumbling Hobbes, and there are diary pages spread throughout the cave you may pickup if you so choose. After you kill the fifteen Hobbes you'll have to go kill their leader. He'll summon a couple more enemies but they're all easy kills, take the diary page behind him if you'd like and open the chest. Go back to the cave entrance and you'll find out that Tommy is more of a crazy asshole than you originally thought. He wanted you to be killed, you'll have to fight Tommy now, it only took me one hit so I imagine nobody will have any troubles with him. Take his key and leave the mine.
Reward: Rod of Life
Renown: 8500
Victor the lonely gravekeeper wants you to collect body parts for a "science experiment". To begin this quest you will need to knock on his door once or twice and wait there for a few seconds.
The first place he sends you is into the Hobbe Cave, a familiar locale. Your dog will sniff out the body part from the second you enter the cave, as soon as you enter there is a dive spot in the water next to you.
Continue through the cave smiting the Hobbes until you reach the room you were first ambushed (beginning), your dog will find the dig spot there which has the Lady Grey's (familiar?) lower body and a note. Don't leave yet though! A little further ahead there is a dig spot covering a silver key, after you get the silver key you can fast travel back to Bowerstone Cemetery.
Victor tells you what really going on, as if you didn't already know right? Then he'll send you to a tomb in Wraithmarsh, the quickest way to get there is to use fast travel and take Bloodstone road. When you enter Twinblade's Tomb you'll have to kill a nice handful of monsters in a room. From there you'll have to find a way to open that locked door. On the left side there is a pressure plate hidden by two bushes, destroy the bushes and stand on it, aim and the glowing circle across from you and hit it with a gun or spell. Then melee hit it, then shoot it again! Congrats, you've just opened the door with no help at all (ahem).
You'll be greeted by three or so delightful dead, finish them off (can they die?) and proceed to the locked gate. Assuming you've already stood on the pressure plate, walk back over to where you are facing the spiked floor of death, and shoot the circle (yea I don't get the floor part either) to continue your journey.
At the water area kill you the monsters and stand on the pressure plate, then repeat the expression that the statue behind you just did, its the chicken, and if you do it wrong the statue will not be pleased and will most certainly knock you back a bit.
Go through the right side door, destroy the shrubs, stand on the pressure plate, then go back through the left side. Stand on the pressure plate and shoot the circle, and voila! Continue through to the circular room and kill everything inside. To the left there is an orb that you have to shoot, then shoot it several times as it rests on each statue, and finally, on the door. Put your Indy suit on and make your way through the firebreathing statues, the cycle begins at the furthest one then restarts from the entrance statue, so be careful. When you get to the end, step on the pressure plate and go back.
Make your way up the spiralling stairs and too the body lobby, in the right corner of the area there will be a casket contain Lady Grey's upper body, and note, then a silver key beside you. There is also a silver key in the casket centered to the room, and, incase you didn't hear it, if you look above the entrance door there is a gargoyle! Another bonus is that behind one of the glowing doors there is a chest contain 500 gold, the other holds the way back to Wraithmarsh.
The final part of Lady Grey is in a tomb in Fairfax Gardens. Lady Grey's tomb to be precise. Before you vault down into eternal darkness there is a gargoyle near you. After vaulting there should be a chest behind a pillar, your dog should find it. Walk up to her heads final resting place and steal it, then head back to Victor.
Now you have a choice, take the Lady for yourself or let Victor have her, if you take her away, you'll get evil points, and vice versa.
This is the evil side to "Cold Comfort Farmer". All you need to do is travel to Brightwood and walk to the west end where you will encounter Giles and a few of his helpers. To make things easier you can stay back and pick off Giles, if you would rather kill him up close he will charge you, you don't need to kill any of the others to complete this mission.
Reward: Golden Burden Augment
Renown: 5000
Find Granny Miggins in the Gypsy Camp, her grandson went venturing off into a cave in Bower Lake and she wants a responsible adult to go after him, that's you. It's not hard to find the Tomb of Heroes, it's on the far corner of the area, the golden trail will lead you there.
Navigate through the tunnel (when you hear a gargoyle turn around and look up) to where you will find Charlie. Charlie is opening a casket and needs your help to protect him from Hollow Men. The Hollow Men will appear in groups in the room, the easiest thing I found to do was go back to the entrance way and aim at them if your have totally upgraded your Dextrous Styles skill path.
After a few waves the Hollow Men will quit coming and Charlie will need you to open the quest for him, do so and you'll get an item. Now you will have to escape the tomb as countless Hollow Men ambush, they aren't hard to kill but they strongly outnumber you so you should make use of a potion or some food. The easiest way to kill these are to use a level two Time Control spell then a level five spell like Inferno, Shock, or Force Push.
Make your way back through the tomb towards the entrance fighting off Hollow Men, when they are all dead you have a choice that the game doesn't really hint of. You can leave with Charlie or you can kill him and obtain his top hat. If you choose to spare his life exit the tomb and Granny Miggins will be waiting outside.
Of course, if you want the top hat you can kill him and get some evil points. Except when you leave the cave don't give Granny the top hat, just walk away from her and put it on, the quest will automatically complete and you will get your typical reward.
Reward: Troll's Eyeball
Renown: 3500
Go and talk to Joseph in the Rookridge Inn, there has been some unexplained pollution driving away all of his customers. He'll need you to investigate it for him. Follow the trail down the same path you once chased Dash, you will meet up with a handful of Bandits, but they shouldn't be too hard to defeat. To your left there is a Wellspring.
Now I don't know about you, but I'm getting mighty sick of Trolls being around everywhere. Nontheless, kill the Troll that creeps up out of the water. In case you didn't already notice, there is also a chest n the room where you killed the Troll. Now go back and meet Joseph to recieve your reward, and a discount to purchase the Inn if you'd like.
Speak to Toby, he will ask you to recover the Mutton of Eternal Hope, you can find this above the Tattoo Parlor. You'll find the mutton in a cabinet in front of you. Hold down "a" to steal it, watch out for the eye icon, if it is closed nobody can see you, otherwise you'll be caught. If you are caught the Tattooist will shoot at you and you'll have to kill him unless you have the apology expression.
Return to Toby and he'll send you to go and steal a bottle of wine for him, follow the trail into the house and go upstairs, the wine should be in a cabinet next to the bed. You'll only have to worry about whores here who usually accept an apology. Next Toby will ask you get a pie, go to the house that the golden trail leads you to and go to the cabinet around the corner. While you're here get a hooker to follow you. Go back to Toby and he'll ask you to bring him a prostitute, luckily you've already gone one. Leave him alone and speak to the townspeople.
You'll learn that Toby is a con artist, kind of obvious though wasn't it? I hope so. Go knock on his door four or five times until he opens up, you can either kill him for evil points or just scare him and he'll flee.
This sidequest is one that should keep you amused for a fair bit of time, first thing you need to do is speak to a lady named Belle in Fairfax Gardens. Upon accepting her intriguing quest you will be handed your first card.
Get your first note and go to Bowerstone Old Town, your dog will find out where this dig spot is right away, it should be in an alley just before an area with a large tree. Return to Belle once you get it for your 75 renown.
The next artifact you need to grab is fairly simple, go to Rookridge from Oakfield and your dog should sniff it out quickly, it's on a cliff near the abondoned building. You will have to fight bandits to get there. The reward for this note will be 100 renown.
Where the dead dwell? I hope you've alredy made your way to the Bowerstone Cemetery, if not go there and pretend I didn't have to tell you (joking). If you haven't completed a certain quest yet you will probably face an uncountable amount of Hollow Men (100 to be exact). Nevertheless, follow your dog down the path to a dead end where you will be able to dig up the artifact. Go back and collect your reward of 125 renown when finished.
If Belle has no more jobs for you after the ones above, you must progress in the story a little more.
When new quests become available go back and see Belle, read the note, and this one is a little tougher. If you can't figure it out then just say you could, and make your way to Oakfield where you will find an Ancient Scroll near the Temple of Light. Back to Fairfax Gardens for your 150 renown and another note!
Your next clue should point you in the direction of Bower Lake, this one is too easy, it will be buried in the middle of the Gypsy Camp. For this artifact you will get 200 renown points.
"There are contstant mentions in the old tets of a 'dense forest' that lies somewhere in the shadow of a tower". Hmm, well Brightwood is a woods, in turn is a dense forest, and I believe I've seen something called the Brightwood Tower before. I'm going to take a wild guess that we should go to Brightwood for this next artifact. Your dog will take you to the treasure as usual, it's near the river down a hill. Your reward for getting this is 250 renown.
Don't go just yet, Belle has another task. Her research will take you to Bandit Coast through Road. You'll have to fight lots of bandits here, obviously. Eventually your dog should take you to a spot just off the main path where you'll have to dig in front of a door. You might as well go inside, there is a chest and gargoyle in there. Then, bam! 300 renown.
Your next adventure will take you to the home of the Crucible, you guessed it, Westcliff. Your dog should take you down to the beach where you boarded the ship to The Spire. Your reward for uncovering this scroll is 350 renown.
This next one is actually a little interesting, since it isn't so obvious. You will have to travel to the Hobbe Cave in Rookridge then turn around and exit the cave. After you kill the Hobbes outside look to your right (facing away from the cave) and swim to the trail across the water. Follow the trail, you should run into a few Hollow Men, at the end of the trail there is the Gemstone Grotto. Once inside the Grotto your dig will sniff out the buried artifact. If you continue past where you dig the scroll you can find a silver key and a chest will 200 gold. When you return to Belle you will get 450 renown. By the way, this is your last adventure until you complete the main story.
When you complete the game more quests will open up from Belle, return to her whenever you wish. The note will tell you to go to a bured town called "Oakvale", which now goes by the title of Wraithmarsh. Travel to the Drowned Farm. There will be a Banshee fight right away, but you should probably expect that kind of thing from where you are. Follow your dog as usually, if you don't have your dog there will be a glowing trail as long as this is your active quest. For finding this artifact you will recieve 500 renown.
For the next note travel to the Bloodstone Water Front, from there your dog/trail should lead you to the yard behind "The Boudir". Return to Belle to recieve 550 renown.
Next you are to travel to the Guild Cave, fast travel to the Chamber of Fate and work your way backwards through the cave. You'll encounter nothing more than two swarms of Beetles as you are lead to the scroll. You will be awarded 600 renown when you return to Belle.
This next adventure will lead you to Reaver's Rear Passage, and since you've already been there you can fast travel to that exact area. Much like before you will be lead to the artifacts location by your dog or trail. It is fairly deep into the passageway and you will encounter Bandits and Hobbes. When you get this artifact go back to Fairfax Gardens, this time Belle will be in the excavation site, get your 700 renown.
You've found all of the ancient scrolls! With all of the scrolls discovered Belle can now open the passage uncovered in Fairfax Gardens, but she needs you to clear it for her. There will be a chest below guarded by two Spire Shards. Manage your distance and shoot at them with will abilities to defeat them. Remember not to let them get close to you. After you destroy them open to chest and recover "The Archon;s Dream". Belle will meet you in the area, she will offer you 50,000 gold for the precious gem. You can either give it to her for good points or take the evil path and keep it, it is worth 100,000 gold. If you choose to keep it you will have to kill Belle, thus earning evil points. Either way you will get 1000 renown.
Go to Giles' farm and talk to him, he needs you to find a date for his son and hands you a photo of Rupert. You'll have to go find Rupert, he is in the field next to you.
After speaking with Rupert go to Bowerstone Market to look for a potential date, remember that Rupert is interested in a male partner. If you show the photo to a woman you will get evil points, but if you find a gay male. When you run into an interested villager they will agree, then you can return to the farm and give Rupert and Giles the good (or bad) news.
When you speak to them the farm will go up for sale at a base price of 70,000 gold.
Renown: 3500
You'll need to scrape up 100,000 gold before you can purchase the mansion. Travel to Bowerstone Cemetery and buy the mansion. You'll get a key and note, now turn around and follow the trail. There is also a demon door there that you can kick a chicken at to enter.
Enter Shelley Crypt and continue down the path no matter what any Hollow Man says. Open the chest at the end of the path. Make your way out through the hidden door until you enter a blood soaked room, there you will fight off three waves of Hollow Men, there is also a chest in there with a potion in it. Kill the already dead Hollow Men and keep going. You'll see an orb that you have to hit and shoot in order to form an invisible bridge. On the last bridge after you hit it it will appear behind you from where you entered the area, there is a gargoyle in the room too if you'd like to take care of it.
Now you get the choice to hand over the gem to the Hollow Men or kill them and keep it, the Hollow Men are easy to kill, even the biggun' so I decided just to kill them, there will be a couple waves of them. Now leave the cavern and exit the crypt.
Reward: Lucien's Contract
Renown: 7500
No doubt you've been ambushed by Bandits before, but if you have engraved yourself into the habbit of walking around Albion you've most likely been ambushed countless of times. There are times that these ambushes will drop a piece of a map, once you collect four pieces you will unlock a new quest.
Go to the Forsaken Fortress in Brightwood, when you get there it will be overrun with Bandits, more than you're used to. You need to Kill the Bandit Darius Zing. Like the other Bandit leaders, Zing will run off after you've slain all of his followers. Run after him and fight off all of the Bandits that you run into. Eventually he will stop and join his henchmen and attack you. He isn't difficult to kill, it is easier to kill the Highwaymen first though.
Reward: Hobbe Staff head
Renown: 1500
One day you will return to your spouse and hear quite possibly the worst news of your life. Your child has run off to a cave to follow in their fathers/mothers footsteps (sorry I went in the cave, hehe).
You'll soon find out that they went off to the Hobbe Cave, travel there. When you enter the cave it is much like before, go through the cave where you will encounter numbers of Hobbes, it is their home afterall. Follow the paths and slay Hobbes (they're former childen, you know). When you find your way into a room with an excess number of Hobbes and cages you will find a cage key on one of the Hobbes. When you kill all of the Hobbes and obtain the key unlock your child. Exit the cave with your child.
Before meeting with the Abbot for the second time you can pose for a statue, for every statue plinths you find you can pose for for the Oakfield Sculptor for a statue. Your first session will be free and each addition statue will cost you a small sum of gold.
Locations of all statue plinths, in order of availability:
Oakfield - In front of the Sandgoose in.
Fairfax Gardens - To your left when you enter surrounded by water. Brightwood - Next to a gate of a destroyed castle if you take the path from Bower Lake Road.
Westcliff - Near the shooting range just passed the hut.
Bloodstone - On the Waterfront, can't miss it!
On Rookridge road you should encounter a ghost who wishes for you to get a woman to fall madly in love with you. He hands you a rejection letter and asks you to give it to you. You will also receive the Seduction espression.
Go to Bowerstone Market and you should find her on the bridge, woo Alex until a message pops up giving you the option to break her heart or rip up the letter and marry her. If you choose to marry Alex you must buy a ring and a house, you will gain every benefit to marriage as you usually would. Return to the ghost and receive 100 renown points.
Reward: Captrain Dread's Sword, Gold
Renown: 7500
To get this quest go talk to Salty Jack at the Inn, you'll have to buy him a beer, so do that and give it to him and he'll talk. Accept his wild quest and make your way to Smuggler's Cave.
Dive down and follow the trail, keep going until you enter a room. You'll be fighting several waves of Ghost Pirates here, get rid of all them (I don't think they die again?) and keep going to where you'll be halted by a locked door. Behind you should be a pressure plate hidden by some crates and barrels, step on it to unlock the door. You'll make your way to Captain Dread's room that contains a lock chest, the key to this chest is on the nightstand next to his bed. Open the chest and take the lever.
Go back to the pirate ship and use the lever where appropriate, step on to the ship where you will fight Captain Dread and his Ghost Pirates in a PotC setting. They aren't too difficult, take the helm after you've had your, uhm, way with them. You will be taken to an island where you must locate ten of Captain Dread's treasure chests.
First thing you should do when you are on the beach is turn around and swim to the cove, there is a chest there. The next chest you will find is in the stern of the beached (read: destroyed) ship. Follow the trail up until you get to a small area with a few waterfalls and some land, there is a chest just to the side that you'll have to vault down to. Make your way on to the small landmass and your dog should find a dig spot with a bag near a tree, there is another chest on the other side of the tree. Next there is a dive spot just off the land, where it forks. The next one is behind one of the waterfalls. Now go up towards the cave, there is a gargoyle next to the waterfall, there also is silver key next to the cave entrance. Go into the cave and there is a room to your left with another chest. Past the cave you can vault down and find another chest there. The final chest you will have to follow the trail and cut down a bush so you can jump on the wrecked ship. Now you can take the helm of your ship to return to Bloodstone.
Reward: 15,000 gold
Renown: 1500
Talk to Barnum about business and he'll want you to invest 5000 gold into his development plan. If you do this quest before entering The Spire it will be complete by the time you get back. If you don't I believe he will disappear.