Several artifacts lay scattered across 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3, but few are so close to your starting position than the Ancient Tome, also known as the Necromancy of Thay. Available as soon as your first real town encounter, the book is kept well-hidden right under your nose. You'll need to keep a vigilant eye and scour every corner to find its location♓ and unlock it🎀s secrets.

Of course, getting the book won't be enough; it never is. ✤Once the book has been found, you'll also need to find a way to open it. And once you find the key, reading what lies inside is no minor challenge either. When it🍷 comes to the Necromancy of Thay, it'll be one thing after the next.

Updated January 30, 2024 by Alexis Campbell: Included new information gathered from Act Three, finishing the Necromancy of Thay informal questline and trading secrets of the book with the Mirror of Loss in lieu of unwanted Ability Score Points.

How To Find The Necromancy Of Thay

Past The Mirror Of Riddles

Resting in a secret laboratory beneath the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Blighted Village, you'll first need to scout out the secret entrance to an apothecary's basement.

From the main gate (where the goblins on the roof speak with you on the side facing the beach and the druid's grove), enter the first house on the left.

In the room with the double doors to the outside and closest to the Waypoint, you should find a hatch on the floor leading to the basement. It's behind the counter. Open it to descend into the basement.

The basement contains several helpful herbs, potions, and a few small trinkets of worth. Of the seemingly insignificant items, the one you'll want to pay attention to is a book sitting on a table on the left side of the room called the "Healer's Log." Inside is information that will be the key to answ♓ering a riddle later.

After reading (and maybe taking) the book, walk toward the large wooden cabinet where your characters ma🍬y roll a passive perception to notice scratch marks on the ground.

To move the cabinet, pick up and move or destroy the three boxes stacked to the left. A hidden lever behind it can be found there.

Pull the lever, and then go through the newly opened door to the right of the cabinet.

A yard of dug-up caskets can be found on the other side, and snooping through them will cause several undead skeletons to rise from their coffins. Unless you're looking for the fight, ignore the coffins and instead approach the mirror.

The mirror will ask you a set of questions, and you must answer them all as such in order to proceed:

1. My name is [Player name].
2. Yes, an ally! I'm an ally of your master's.
3. Szass Tam is a foul, wretched creature / A foul lich. May he die a thousand deaths.
4. To clean a wound / I found a book...
5. 'I'd look for whatever spell will rid me of this worm in my head' / 'I'd see my enemies suffering.'

Failing to answer the mirror correctly will trigger a fiery orb to appear from the mirror and attack you while waking all the skeletons hiding in෴ their caskets nearby.

Alternatively, if you roll high enough, you can Intimidate the mirror into letting you🎶 pass. If you fai𓂃l or answer the questions wrong, however, it will summon an orb that sprays fire at you.

Entering the laboratory, you can find several powerful potions and spell scrolls. Loot what interests you and ignore the iron door between the braziers for now.

Head toward the exit, where a lever can be pulled to open the way back to the Apothecary's Basement section. After the shortcut is open, turn to the side and inspect the nearby shelves for a . Take it.

You can skip finding the Rusted Key and the entire section below if you carry and cast the spell . Use ಌit to reach through the iron door and pull the book through the metal bars without fearing an♒y traps.

Approaching the iron door once you're ready, you may discover a trap on the ground in front of the door. Stepping on it only seems to activate the braziers, so you can choose to Disarm it o𒁃r not.

Open the door with the Rusted Key and discover the Necromancy of Thay inside. Don't pick it up. Instead, there is a trap beneath the book and a trap in each of the gargoyle statues on either side of the room. Disarm them all.

Alternatively, you can cast Mage Hand inside the room with the book and throw the book through the bars, bypassing all of the traps without having to make ♐a rollꦑ.

Once the traps are disarmed, you can finally pick up the book safely. You may receive interest from either Astarion or Gale about taking the book. At this point, you have three options:

1. Destroy the book (not recommended; if you intend on destroying it, at least give it to Gale). You must attack it with Radiant damage to destroy it.
2. Give the book to Gale for him to consume, losing the item.
3. Keep the book and search for the Amethyst Key to continue the quest.

How To Find The Dark Amethyst, AKA The Amethyst Key

Defeat The Phase Spider Matriarch

To find the Amethyst Stone, you'll have to venture into the Whispering Depths. There are two paths into the Whispering Depths in the Blighted Village:

• Taking a rope down the well.
• Knocking down a weak wall in the storeroom under the house to the right of the main gate.

The Whispering Depths is recommended only for party levels of at least ♉three🔥 or higher.

Once inside the Whispering Depths, you'll need to venture further to the bowels of the Depths. This requires defeating at least one horde of spiders and encountering the mini-boss at the end: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Phase Spider Matriarch.

Phase Spider Matriarch
HP			125
AC			15
Speed			9m
Size/Weight			Large/250kg (Monstrosity)
Stats
Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha
19 (+4)	16 (+3)	14 (+2)	6 (-2)	12 (+1)	6 (-2)
Feats
Darkvision			Matriarch can see in the dark up to 12m.
Webwalker			Isn't slowed down by webs and can't be entangled by them.
Spider Queen's Wrath			Increase Strength by 2 in exchange for -1 to AC. (Occurs after losing 50% of health)
Attacks
Ethereal Jaunt			Can teleport to another location within sight.
Venomous Discharge			Shoots venom in a cone attack. ?d? + ? Poison damage.
Venomous Bite (Multiattack)			Can attack once or twice. Deals 1d10 + 4 Piercing damage and poisons the target on a failed CON save.

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She's, thankfully, a very straightforward fight so long as you stay on solid ground and lure her and her spiderlings to you.

Yes, her health is on the tanky sid🥀e at 125HP, but her AC is manageable, and her bite attacks are not too devastating for a properly leveled party.

Your only concern for this fight is to avoid being poisoned by her bites and Venomous Discharge. Ensure you have someone with prepared to c❀ounteract the effect𒐪s of poison while in combat.

Using or will be extremely useful here for their ability to one-shot kill the small spider minions. Guardians of Faith is the better option, as worrying about yo🐈ur t♏eam's positioning is not necessary.

After defeating the Matriarch, you can climb down a vine wall left of the spider web leading to a broken pillar ꧋(north of the entrance you came from) and where the Phase Spider Matriarch likely teleported to.

Down here is a , but the real prize lies on the other side of the large hole in the center of the room.

A glowing purple stone on the other side is the Dark Amethyst. Pick it up and take it back to a safe place (like camp).

What To Do With The Necromancy Of Thay In Act One

A Difficult Choice That You Can Put Off Until Later

Once you've secured the Dark Amethyst, you can now open the Necromancy of Thay.

In a safe location, select the Necromancy of Thay in your inventory and Read it. This will prompt a dialogue where you can choose what to do. Insert the Amethyst Stone.

When the book opens, you'll be given a few more options:

• Open the book.
• Destroy the book (don't do this; just speak with Gale to give it to him).
• Give the book to Astarion.
• Put the book away (choose later).

Giving the book to Astarion increases his Approval and opens unique dialogues but ends the quest, leaving you unable to retrieve the boo🎐k for yourself (or read it again later).

Opening the book will prevent you from receiving the option to give the book to Gale. However, you will automatically gain an at-will special casting of " " regardless of how you roll the saves required t♈o peruse the boo🌸k.

If you choose to open the book, you'll need to make three difficult Wisdom saves. Fiꩵrst, 🐼a 10DC, then a 15DC, and finally a 20DC (or a 10DC to close it).

Failing one save will give you 50 turns of "Whisps of Madness" - a debuff that gives you Disadvantage on Wisdom ability checks. Failing two will give you a similar debuff called "Baleful Knowledge," but it's permanent.

If you suffer Baleful Knowledge, you can remove it with the spell . This is a third level spell learned by clerics, p🦩aladins, warlocks, and wizards.

Succeeding on the saves of the book will give you some unique insight into your future, but there are no known notable side-effects, either positive or negative.

War🌊locks, Wizards, and Clerics of Shar and Lolth (espꩲecially Shadowheart) will have lower DCs and special options.

What To Do With The Necromancy Book Of Thay In Act Three

Ability Points Vs Spells

In the final act of the game, there are two things that can be done with the Necromancy Book of Thay:

1. Trade the knowledge you gained from the book in exchange for +2 Ability Score Points.
2. Read the Tharchiate Codex and then the final page of the Book of Thay.

If you've spoken with the Mummy Lord, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Mystic Carrion, in the Lower City, he'll hint to you that the Tharchiate Codex is the key to learning the real secret of the Book of Thay. If you want to follow up on this lead, you need to head to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sorcerous Sundries.

You can 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:follow this guide to locate thꦦe Tharchi💞ate Codex in the restricted vault section.

After reading the Tharchiate Codex, you can open the Book of Thay (if you did not give it to Astarion or Gale) and now read the final section of the book after passing another saving throw (Wisdom DC 20). This will reward you with a Summon Ghouls spell you can cast at will once per long rest.

This spell summons six ghouls to your aid, a powerful boon to have in any situation.

You may prefer the other option with the Book of Thay if you:

• Are not a necromancer
• Gave the book to Astarion or Gale
• Really want to boost your Ability Score
• Just don't care for summoning ghouls

Travel to the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:House of Grief and complete the questli💮ne the🐻re in whichever manner you see fit.

Once the house is cleared, you'll gain access to the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mirror of Loss. Passing its checks, the person who read the Book of Thay will have the ability to forget all their knowledge about the book in return for two points in an Ability Score of your choice.

Beware that this will cause you to lose any spells gained as a resultꩵ of reading the book.