Solution copyright © Mike Marcelais. Version 1.2, June 13, 1999.
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Might and Magic VI is a very loose game -- i.e., there is very little linearity. To solve the game merely means going to each location and dealing with all of the small quests in the area and exploring the local dungeons. Because of this freedom, the walkthrough will be in the style of a "tour" of the lands. Each major grid location is listed (along with a screen capture of the map from the game), and all surface locations noted.
For towns, each building is described, along with what and who can you can talk to, who to buy skills from, and what quests are available. For the outlying areas, the dungeons are listed.
Dungeon maps are not given -- they would be too extensive to fit easily into a web page and the automapping in the game is excellent. Also, every dungeon should be explored completely to get all of the loot, but only puzzles and hidden locations are described. I also skip most of the fighting because it isn't something that you can easily describe, nor does it matter in most places, except that you have to survive it. I do list the creatures that you will encounter in a dungeon or grid location to give you an idea of how difficult the location is.
Stores are listed with a "buy" and "sell". The "buy" value is multiplied by the items value to determine the price you have to pay for it. The "sell" value is divided by the item's value to determine the price you can sell it to the store for. Higher is always worse, and a "buy" or "sell" of 1 means that you are buying/selling an item at cost.
Every location has a "reset" timer. This starts when you first enter the area, and after it "goes off", the entire grid square resets: monsters reappear and random treasure is replaced. Nonrandom treasure (including most stat-gaining liquids) is not replaced. All dungeons have a reset of 2 years (24 months), unless otherwise noted. Overland areas have reset times listed with their descriptions.
Artifacts are unique items that can be found. They come in two flavors: Minor artifacts are always benificial and have a value of 20000gp. Major artifacts always have a drawback, but their benificial powers are much stronger. They have a value of 30000gp. There are 15 minor and 15 major artifacts -- some of these artifacts are placed at specific locations; others are randomly generated.
This overland area resets every 6 months.
Note that the outside of Goblinwatch contains quite a few goblin guards. You can get access to the upper part of the watch by taking a ramp around the backside of the keep. There is a room at the top with a goblin that refuses to talk to you.
From the entrance, head right and down. In the room at the end are several cabinets on the wall. Inside one of the cabinets is a wall safe that has a scroll describing the combination to the vault. This is the scroll required to solve quest 2.
From the entrance room, the room to the south and west has a button on the far wall. Pushing this button lowers two corner pillars that allow access to some treasure rooms.
To the east is the entrance area to the vault. In order to open it, you have to work out how to open all of the doors at once. One of the instructions will open a door without closing any. This must be the last key you press. Now, find a way to open a door that closes only the doors you will open later. And continue until all of the doors are open.
One solution is "NILBOG". (Many other solutions are possible; this one has the advantage of spelling something interesting when reversed.) Each key opens a door while not closing any of the doors you have already opened.
Pushing the Mainentance button (M), will teleport you to caves underneath the castle. When you leave this area, it will open up a new door to the east of the entrance room.
At the very first intersection, to the right is a room. A chest in that room contains the candelabrum needed to solve quest 3.
Continuing down the corridor into the caverns, you will come to a room containing a chest in the middle of the room and a Spark spell containstly bashing down onto it. You can empty the chest by timing you steps correctly. Be careful, as the Spark spell seems to be a master level spark.
The next room and then north leads to where Angela is trapped. She will join your party automatically and you can return her to town to solve quest 6.
Further west and then back east, and then to the end of the passage is a teleporter that returns you to the room south of where you found Angela.
If you instead go further west is the lair of some cobras. You can find several cobra eggs scattered around this room.
To the south is the lair of the Queen of the Spiders. Kill her and you will find her heart. This will satisfy quest 4. There is also a teleporter here that will return you to the starting room.
Note: You should complete the Silver Helm Outpost on the Misty Islands before starting this dungeon.
As you enter, you will find a huge vertical room with a spiral walkway around the edge of the room. The center opens up into a deep pit that falls into a lava field. The room is also filled with fire spirits and elementals which are not happy to see you. If you are so unfortunate as to fall into the lava, there is a tile that, when touched, will teleport you back onto the walkway. That applies in all of the other areas where you can fall into the lava in the Forge.
In the corridor outside the entranceway, there is a secret door on the right wall. This leads to a room that has a level. Pulling this lever will extend the bridge across the lava moat.
The doors in the next section are all opened by pulling a lever just to the left or right of the door to be opened. Expect a tough fight. Anyway, through the first door, turn to the right, and continue down the corridor and you should get to a balcony that overlooks another lava moat. There are eight doorways to this room and one wooden bridge. The hallways connect seven of the eight doorways -- you have to get to the eighth. There is also a lever on each balcony and each lever does something.
The upper southwest lever toggles the upper southwest door. The upper southeast lever toggles the upper northeast door. The upper northwest lever toggles the lower northeast door. The upper northeast lever (the lever at the door you're trying to get to) opens a secret room back out in the corridor where the puzzle started. The lower southwest lever toggles the upper northeast door. The lower southeast lever moves the bridge across and closes the upper southeast door. The lower northwest lever toggles the upper southeast door. The lower northeast lever toggles the lower southeast door. Both southeast, and the lower northeast doors start closed; the remaining doors start open.
To get through, flip the upper northwest lever, the lower northeast lever, the lower southeast lever, the lower northwest lever, and the upper northeast lever. Then return to the secret room and collect the loot and continue through.
The next room to the north has a chest, inside of which is a Letter to Marcus. Continuing around the corridor, through another room to the south, and in the corridor, there is a loop in the corridor. On the west side of the loop, there is a secret door that leads to a back room. In that room there are two chests, one of which contains a scrap from Gharik's Journal.
Through the door, you will reach a tiny room with a lever on both sides of the door. This is an elevator room -- pulling the lever will lower you way down to the bottom, where another door waits. This door requires that you have the key to Gharik's Laboratory. You can get this key from the Silver Helm Outpost on the Misty Islands.
In the next room (which is a nasty fight), go through the wall on the far door, and then up the spiral ramp around the edge of the next room. Up there, you need only fight your way across one more bridge and then through the last group of warlocks in the room on the far side. The chest against the far wall contains the Hourglass of Time needed to complete quest 12.
This overland area resets every 24 months.
When you enter and get to the first fork in the corridor, take the door to the right. The door directly ahead leads to a room whose exit is jammed shut, so you can't go that way anyway. On your right, there will be a stairway leading downward (with guards at the bottom). Once down there, head south and take the north fork. This passage leads around to a switch which will open the door back on the starting room. The south fork leads to a chest which contains a flute. (What to do with flute?)
On your way back, be wary of the west exit from the bottom of the ramp: That leads down to a water channel. In the water are several kinds of oozes -- all of which will devour your items and tend to be immune to such items. Just avoid. And don't fall in the lake; you'll have plenty of chances to do so.
Back upstairs, head through the south door and continue to a platform with a lever. This lever operates an elevator down (to some more waiting guards). From here, around the corner and to the north is another switch. This switch opens a secret door back down the corridor that leads to some flour sacks containing food and a chest. In the chest is a letter linking the Dragoon raiders with the Shadow Guild. If you return with this letter to New Sorigal city hall, you will receive a 5000gp reward.
Continuing down the corridor, over the bridge, straight, and over another bridge is another button. This will open a door that you skipped by. Head back over the bridge and turn left (east) at the fork between the bridges and into the next room. The exit to this room is controlled by that switch.
Almost there -- after going down the second elevator, follow the large passage all of the way to the end. There will be six chests against the far wall. Only the middle-left chest (#2) is real; touching any of the other chests will teleport you to another area of the labyrinth. Inside this chest is a harp, which is needed to solve quest 8.
When you enter the temple, there will be a very large room just in front of you, with a small room in the center and four doors leading off in the four cardinal directions. There are also tunnels that lead in each of the secondary directions (NE, SE, SW, and NW). These diagonal tunnels aren't that important, except that the critters in there should be cleared out before they distrub you at a bad time. The witches' brew that you will find in some of the corners will raise you magic resistance by 1% permanently.
Start by heading south. You'll pass by two locked doors and then the corridor will dead end in a statue. If you search the statue, you will find a key. That key will open one of the two doors you passed. Inside that room, there is a chest containing a bathhouse key. (Note: every time you open a chest around here, more skeletons and Baa clerics appear.)
Now head north into the bathhouse area. The key you found opens the room on the right. Inside that room is another chest. That key will open the other storeroom back in the south area.
Heading back to the south, open the door, then the chest, to get another key. Now, go to the east. Open the door and quickly move out of the way. A large fireball shoots down this corrdior at regular intervals. You can get around it by walking on the fountains. Head upstairs, fighting a rather difficult battle, and clear out the temple at the top. As soon as you stand on the elevated part of the room, the room will fill completely with skeletons. You have three choices:
You can also take the gong that is on the altar here; there is a fellow in Free Haven that buys temple gongs for 2000gp each.
Now, return back to the main room. You can open the main door now by opening the doors in the following order: north, east, west, then south. Inside is another chest. (There is quite a battle waiting for you when you open this chest.) Inside is a key to the other bathhouse room. Go to that room and open up the chest there to get a treasure key.
Great -- now where's the treasure room? Return to the large altar and go to the ledge on the north side of the room. At the end of the ledge (to the west), there is an invisible door in the corner. In this room, there is a chest that contains the Chime of Harmony, needed to solve quest 7, and another treasure key. The treasure key can be used to open a similar secret door in the south wall. That room opens into piles of money.
This is not a very large dungeon and there isn't much here to describe. In the first room to your right, there is a button just inside the doorway. If you push that button, then a wall section out in the corridor will open up allowing you to walk straight from the entrance deep into the hideout. The next door on the right is locked, and you can't open it now. Continue down that corridor, working your way around. The area is arranged like a large oval, with rooms on the outside.
One of the rooms on the east side of the hallway contains a chest with a letter addressed to the Prince of Thieves.
As you are working your way down the other side, you will find a large room that looks like a vault: several barrels of gain stat are here, bags of items, and lots of gold. On the north wall of this vault, there is another switch. This opens the corridor on this side of the oval, across from the first secret door that you opened.
On the next room on the right, there is a chest. In that chest, there is a guild key. That key opens the locked door back near the entrance. At the end of the corridor, there is a secret door, openable only from this side, which allows you to get back into the first room in this dungeon.
The locked room is where Sharry is being kept prisoner. She will join your party, and you should escort her back to New Sorpigal to complete quest 5.
This evil place is filled with undead. In particular, ghosts, specters, and other evil floating things. They have the ability to magically age you, and there is no easy way to heal from magical aging. (The only way that I know of is to use one of the black potions, but then your stats are permanently reduced, or use the fountain in the Hermit's Isle which you won't have access to until late in the game.) Save often.
In the first room, head right. Progress through the rooms. At one point you will pass through a room with a pool of water in it. Note this room as you'll return to it later.
In the long hallway around the corner, take the first right. The next room should have a narrow walkway that is suspended over a very large room. The room has lots of ghosts in it which will float up to attack you when you enter the room. Stay to the walkway and don't fall off.
The next long corridor has a teleporter on it that will instantly take you the length of the corridor. Continue all of the way down, through another room with a walkway (with more ghosts to greet you) and eventually you will get to a room with no more exits. Push the button on the wall there.
Return to the entrance and take the left exit. The door exiting this room was opened by that button you pushed. Follow the corridor around and down and around and down. You will get to another room, similar to the one I mentioned above, but instead of a pool of water, it is an empty pit. Cast Featherfall and jump into the pit.
One of the walls at the bottom of the pit is a secret door. From here, work your way through the tunnels. On one of the walls in a side passage is a button. Push it. These tunnels will connect with the large room undernearth that suspended walkway. There are some chests here. The tunnel will come out at that room with the pool -- the mural behind the pool is a secret door when opened from the inside. Return to the room with the pit.
Continue until you get to a long corridor with short side passages on the left and right, alternating. There is a secret wall at the end of the last corridor on the left. In this room, there is some nice treasure.
Go south to the end of the corridor, turn east, and then turn north. This room has a button which opens the door to the room where the Cystal is located.
The next room is the room underneath the second suspended walkway that you passed over already. Head towards the east door. Follow this down to another door that opens into the room where the Power Lich is hanging out. Yes, he's nasty. And don't try to run away because there is a trap in the corridor that will teleport you into the middle of the room. The best way to deal with the Lich is to close to melee as quick as possible -- he is either immune or highly resistant to most spells. When you're done killing him, open the chest at the far end of the room and get the Cystal out of it. This is the crystal you need to complete quest 22.
Back out in the previous room, the corridr on the west side will lead back to the room just to the east of the entrance area. Now you can leave in comfort.
Be sure to finish Snergle's Iron Mines first in order to get the Key to Snergle's Chamber.
The beginning of this area is very simple; walk through the corridors and kill things. There is very little branching. At most of the dead-ends, there is an exposed gold or gem vein; you can search that to either find gold or cause a cave-in. Similarly, the crystals in the open room can be harvested to get gemstones that can be sold in any shop.
West of the first chamber, there are bones that will permanently increase your resistances. The black barrels past the second room merely poison or disease you.
In the second chamber, a switch on the ground will open up a secret door to the west that leads to more barrels of stat-raising liquid and other treasure.
In the third large chamber, the door leading out of that will be locked and you need to get the Snergle's Chamber key from Snergle's Iron Mines to open it. When you open the door, the corrdior behind you will fill with Dwarves. This pins you in a corner and leads to a rather quick death. The best way I've found to deal with this is cast Lloyd's Beacon back in the second room, and then (in turn based mode), open the door and cast Lloyd's Beacon to return to the second room. Then you can fight all of the dwarves while they are all in front of you and come at you two and three at a time (rather than ten to twenty at once). One of those dwarves in the huge army that flows out of that door is Snergle himself (he isn't any tougher than a Dwarf Lord). On his body, you'll find his Axe. This is what you need to solve quest 25.
In a chest in this room, you will find a letter to Snergle. There is also a switch on the throne that opens another door leading out of this room to the southeast. This passage leads to a small corridor with glowing dinosaur bones. These bones will teleport you back to the entrance to the caverns.
This overland area resets every 24 months.
All of the exciting parts of this dungeon happen after you walk down the starting corridor into a large room (that almost looks like a mess hall). From this room, you will see seven different doors leading out to the south, east, and west.
The two rooms to the south are both storerooms that contain quite a bit of treasure, stat raising barrels, and food. On the west side, the northernmost door leads to a block of three cells. Inside one of those cells, you will find a prisoner that tells you there are secret passages hidden here.
If you go to the end of the passage, you can find a secret door right there. Just click on it to open it. It leads to a very high room that has pillars in the corner and no apparent way of ascending to the top. There are two ways to get to the top: You can use the Jump spell to get from one corner to the next; or you can go into the guard room and flip the switch there. This will cause two small walkways to appear. As you step onto each one, the next will appear; but ones behind you will disappear. If you stay by the wall and walk at a normal walking pace (but don't run), you can walk up the ramp all of the way around the room. At the top, Melody Silver is imprisoned in a room. She is a damsel in distress that you can rescue to satisfy quest 10.
From the large central room, head through the southern door on the east side. Through here, you will find one of the master priest's bedroom. Inside here, there is a chest that contains the key to Gharik's Laboratory and a list of enemies of the Silver Helm. This list is what you need to show Charles D'Sorpigal in order to solve quest 14. There is also a switch on the wall that opens a secret passage. This passage contains two more chests and provides a back way into the temple. (This temple can also be reached via the northeastern door from the main hall).
If you return to Lord Newton with the key, he will remember that the Mirror you're looking for for quest 12 isn't at the Silver Helm outpost at all, but at Gharik's Forge at New Sorpigal.
This overland area resets every 8 months.
The temple of the headhunters. Most of this dungeon is just clearing out all of the headhunters and cobras that walk the hallways. As you go in, the first side passage to your right leads to a pair of rooms. The north room has a secret closet in the northeast corner that hides some treasure.
Back in the main passage, the next room has a floor that seems to move and pulsate as you look at it. If you stand in this room, you will take continuous poison damage. You should run across this room as fast as possible.
The next section is just a loop of corridors and rooms. On the wall in several places, you will see a lever inset in the wall. These levers control the pits that you see. (If you jump into a pit, there is a lever inside the pit that will raise the pit as well.) You will also notice three other levers which are behind skull tiles -- hence, you can't flip the lever itself. In order to deal with these, head towards the very north of the map.
At the north, there is a room that contains a small altar. In the altar is a lever. Pulling this lever opens up the skull tiles and allows you to flip those switches. After you have flipped all three of them, the doors to the central altar will open (it is right in the middle of the automap).
Past the altar, there is a small cell to the left and inside that cell is Sherell Ivanaveh. She is the one you need to rescue and return to Free Haven in order to complete quest 19. The key to her cell is found in one of the chests in the cannibal's bedrooms. (I forget which one, you should clean them all out anyway.)
The very first room of this Temple is the public altar itself, and is fiercely guarded by hordes of monks. Have protective spells ready in advance. Once you have cleaned them out, you've basically finished the tepmle. Head to the door in the northeast of the altar.
This short passage leads to a monk's quarters, and there is one more Master Monk waiting for you here. (He shouldn't be a problem if you got through the opening area.) In his cabinet is the Sacred Chalice that you need to complete quest 32.
The passage behind the door to the southwest of the altar leads to a treasure room guarded by a Minotaur King.
From the main entrance, head down the left ramp and explore the two storage rooms. In the second room, if you pull on the torch, it opens a secret panel in the wall that reveals a switch. Flip this switch to open a locked door that is just down the right ramp from the starting area.
Return to the entrance and head down that right ramp and through the door. In the room you will find a letter from the temple acknowledging that they have found the a crystal and to stand by for a few weeks while they are on their way. Continue up the ramp.
At the top of the ramp, guarded by monks, is the evil crystal. After you have defeated the monks, click on the crystal to destroy it. This completes quest 15.
Right when you first enter, on the left side of the room, there is a molten face embedded into the wall. He is the Lord of Fire, and he will give you quest 47. Make sure you get as many pieces of amber as you can. Every one of your characters must have a piece of amber in order to use the minion teleporters for free. Also, you'll be doing a lot of falling in this dungeon, so use Featherfall.
Then go directly ahead and jump down the hole. Then jump off the center platform into one of the side chutes. Start with the southwest chute. Follow the tunnel down and into a room with two chests. After you're done looting, return to the previous room and jump down the hole in the room.
You'll be in a room now with lots of holes down and four doors. Explore the passages behind all of the doors. The second (from the left) leads to a hole -- skip that one. The rightmost door's corridor also leads (eventually) to a hole. Jump down that one. Continue exploring, jumping down pits and opening doors as appropriate. There are several stone faces on the walls that you can use to teleport back to the surface if you need to. The corridor leads back to the large room with the four doors that you just left.
Now jump down the hole behind the second-from-the-left door. You'll discover that it leads to a room you've already visited. Return to the large pit room.
Jump down the pit by stone face on east wall (both pits lead the same place), and then jump down the next ledge. Odds are, you will miss the small ledges that are by the doors on the next level down. If so, you will be rewarded by finding piles of gold on the ground, as well as the Fallen Defender. This is the creature that the Fire Lord has complained is warding the doors. On his corpse is a chest key. If you follow the corridor here you will return to the large pit room. Repeat until you do end up on the ledges by the doors.
If you walk to the end of the room on the left side, you will be teleported to a room filled with goblins. Kill them, and turn around from where you started and head up the ramp. This is the ramp you arrive in if you went down the northeast eighth opening from the starting room area. Return back down the ramp and go all of the way down. Unfortuantely, this leads to a dead end. Use one of the stone faces to return to the start, jump back down, and return to the large pit room.
Go to the end of the room on the right side now. This is the room you can also get to by going down the northwest eighth from the starting room. Follow the ramp down and you'll find a door that, when you try to open it, says "all wards must be destroyed". Move to the leftmost alcove and open the hidden door in it. This corridor leads to the place where you would go if you went into the eastern eighth from the starting room. Return back to the alcove, head back upstairs and jump in the pit. Look, you're back in the large pit room again.
From here, you should be right next to another pit (its in the northwest corner). Jump in that one. Follow the steep ramp up, and you'll find yourself back in the room you just left (the eastern-eighth room). Since you have used up all of the exits from the large pit room, return to the start and go to the room with eight pits down. If you'll notice that the in addition to the eight chutes immediately around the central piller, there is also a section missing in the corner of the floor in the southwest. Jump into that area. Unfortunately, it merely leads to a room you've already visited. Return to the start.
At this point, you've been to the areas that the northwest, northeast, west, and southwest eighths lead to. So head to the east eighth and jump down. It leads back to a door in a room that you've already been to. Return and jump down the north eighth. At the end of this corridor, you'll find a Crystal Skull in a chest. This is important. The skull allows you to unward doors. Return to the start. In order to open this chest, you need the chest key you got from the Fallen Defender earlier.
From the start, take the southeast eighth. Take the corridor all of the way down to another room that looks very similar to others you've seen. The westernmost niche contains a door in the back. Following this all of the way up, you'll discover that it leads to the southern eighth from the starting room. In the first room back down, there is a pit in the corner of the room. Jump down it. It leads back to a niche in a room you've already been to. Return to the top again.
You've been everywhere, but you have to back and open some doors now that you have the skull. Head down the northeast section from the start and open the middle niche door. Then return to the top and head to the northwest section. A door that was sealed before will now be open. Jump down the pit that is revealed behind that door.
It just leads back to a place you've been. However, you can now return to the start and talk to the Lord of Fire. He will thank you for completing the quest.
This overland area resets every 24 months.
The first room of this temple has a large double door at the top of the stairs with this plaque above it: "Life above all, Accuracy before Might, Endurance before Speed, and finally Luck." What this means isn't immediately obvious, but becomes obvious as you explore further. Head out the west door from the main temple.
When you go down the hallway, through the first door on the right, you will find yourself in a circle of stones with an Altar of Luck in the middle and an option to pray at the altar. Remembering the plaque, it was probably refering to the order that you need to pray at the altars. Since Luck is last, pass this altar by.
The second door leads to the Altar of Speed. The third door leads to the Altar of Accuracy.
Similarly, crossing over to the hallway on the other side of the main rooms, the three altars over there (from north to south) are the Altars of Endurance, Life, and Might.
The correct order to pray is just to follow the order the plaque states: Life must be prayed at first, followed by Accuracy, Might, Endurance, Speed, and Luck. Doing this will unlock the main door with the plaque. Procede down that corridor.
The final room contains the actual Altar of the Moon. This is where you need to pray, during a full moon, at midnight, to complete quest 31.
In the first room, there are three elevators that raise you up to doors high against the wall. Merely walking onto the elevator will raise or lower it to the ground. Head to the west elevator first, as the other two doors will be locked.
All of the rooms in this area are very uninteresting. The northernmost room has a button that opens the east door in the main area. Going through that door finds another uninteresting area with a button opening the center door located in the easternmost room.
The center door leads to a room where fireballs shoot across the room constantly. There are four doors that lead out of here. The western door on the north wall, as well as the doors on the east and west walls lead to uninteresting burial rooms. The eastern door on the north wall leads to a corridor which forks to the east and west. In the first room on the east is a button that raises a gate which blocks the corridor. Past the gate is a room filled with Liches and treasure filled sarcophagi. One of the Liches in room has Ethric's Skull. This is the skull that you need to complete quest 20. The button also opens a gate that leads to a similar coffin room down the western fork.
Getting right down to business, open the right door. This keads to the Keep's main hall, which is filled with fighters defending the keep. After killing them all, head through the north door, up the stairs, around the corner and down the hall. As you go down the hall, stop by in all of the guard's rooms along the side and kill them off.
In the south room, there is a treasure room door on one side. Inside that treasure room is a lever. This lever is one of the two levers needed to open the door at the end of a hallway on the other side of the Keep. Flip it. Now return to the main hall.
From here, head up the corridor along the west side. The first door on the left has a passage that leads down to a cellar that contains another lever. This is the second lever that needs to be flipped to open the door at the end of the hall. Flip it, and finish off the rest of the rooms on this hall. You'll notice that the last door on the right cannot be opened.
Continue due north, and go down the stairs. Around the corner, there is a gate that can be opened by pushing the switch. A switch on the wall will open up all three doors down here. Inside each room is a lever. When all three are flipped, the door that you couldn't open before is now open. Entering the northern cell will cause the door to trap you inside. After a few minutes, a wave of rats will appear in the room; followed by another wave. A few minutes later, a group of fighters will come to open the door so you can get out.
Head back upstairs and to the newly opened door. This leads to the treasure room. Inside are several sacks of gold, and a chest that contains Mordred. This is the artifact that you have to recover for quest 18.
Before you enter the Sewers, be sure you have completed the Shadow Guild in the Frozen Highlands.
There is very little in the Sewers except the ability to wander around, kill things, and collect treasure.
If you enter the sewers through the entrance at Sergio Carrington's house, and go down and around the corner, there will be a sewer grate on the wall directly ahead. Searching that will find you several piles of gold pieces and a sewer key. This key will unlock the door at the north end of the sewers.
At the very far west of the Sewers, there is a bedroom with several chests in it. If you are on quest 27 and you know that he has fled from the Shadow Guild, then you can find him here by clicking on the bed. You will capture him automatically. Now you can complete quest 27 by returning to Castle Stone.
This place isn't much like a dungeon, but since it is presented in the game that way, it gets its own section. Mapping it out is fairly straightforward. The first thing you need to do is turn to the control panel at the entrance and click on it. This will turn the power on in this area. As you walk in, you will arrive in a very futuristic control room. There are passages going off in each of the four directions that lead to module altars, and there is a control panel in the center of the room. If you use the panel, a stone block slides back revealing a passageway down. In this lower room, the big, black starfield screen is the oracle.
When you first meet the Oracle, it requires that you interface the four memory crystals into the four altars. This gives you quest 43, quest 44, quest 45, and quest 46.
As you find the crystals, return them to the altars. It does not matter which crystal goes in which altar. Then visit the Oracle himself again.
The Oracle was apparently damaged by Archibald's mettling, so he can't help you directly. He mentions that the world has been invaded by Kreegan and that you will need very special weapons and armor to kill their elite guards. He has these weapons, but will only hand them over to you with a Control Cube. To this end, he gives you quest 48.
When you return with the Control Cube, you will be given access to the Control Center. (To get into the control center, click on the Oracle's black screen, and then choose Control Center, rather than Oracle when prompted for whom to talk to.) He warns that the guardians in the Control Center are not under his control. He also says that you need to find the Kreegan ship, destroy the reactor, and find some spell that would contain the explosion so that it doesn't blow up the planet. Archibald is the only one who knows such a spell. The Oracle gives you quest 49.
From the entrance area, look on the southeast wall. There is a computer panel there that gives you the following welcome message: "Hello and welcome to this self-guided tour of the Varn Planetary Control Facility. We gladly welcome all visitors. As you arrive at each key area, be sure to check any of our display screens for more information. Enjoy your tour!".
On that note, head south and through the first door on the east. The computer terminal in this room gives you the following message: "Blaster weapons provide an effective, accurate ranged attack. To operate the blaster, hold the grip comfortably in your hand, point the barrel at your target, and gently squeeze the trigger. Should the weapon misfire, do not look into the barrel -- give the weapon to an instructor and let them fix the problem. Never point a blaster at something you do not want to vaporize.". Reading this message will give everyone in the party the "Blaster" skill.
Across the hall, there is a pair of connected rooms, each of which has a storage container against the far wall. The north chest contains a Blaster. (The south chest is empty.)
A word about Blasters: While they may seem inferior to other weapons at first, they have three advantages that make them very superior: 1) They fire very quickly. At one estimate, I could get off three shots with a Blaster Rifle for every shot from a Stellar Bow. When compared to swords or even daggers, this difference multiplies dramatically. 2) The damage that Blasters do is energy damage. There is no way to resist energy damage so you'll be dealing full damage against any target. 3) You can have a shield and a stat enhancing bow/crossbow equipped at the same time. (Note: Don't have a second weapon equipped -- the speed of an attack is determined by the slower weapon, and that weapon will never get used as long as you have the Blaster equipped.)
Continuing down the hallway to the south, the next room has this description: "The room to your left is the main meeting hall. Visiting dignitaries from around the world have feated at banquets held in their honor. In fact, it is said that at his 21st birthday party, King Sheridan nearly choked to death on a piece of mogred, but was saved by a serving girl who he later married and made his Queen. Ahh, l'amour.".
From this large meeting hall, head south. Straight ahead is a door. To the right is a tunnel that connects this room and the first room on the west back at the entrance. The tunnel isn't very interesting, so head through the door and into the room. Go through the room and then take the corridor to the west. It goes through a room that has an empty chest in it into a back room with the following tour message: "Chief Engineer Wilson's Personal Log. I have locked myself in Storage Room #6 but currently have no means of escape. The drone-bots have gone mad and have started killing everyone in sight. I was able to access the main control terminal on Level Four despite warnings of a hazardous leak, and I sent a distress signal, but since we have not had contact with any of the colonies for several weeks, I do not believe that a rescue is possible. I have also managed to seal this facility so that the drones cannot escape. It is my hope that the colonists will be able to mount some sort of defense by the time my encryption codes are broken. Tell Emma I love her. Wilson out.". The chests in this room contain a blaster rifle and two blasters.
Head east down the corridor now and enter each of the next three storage rooms. The first room has a blaster in the chest. The second room merely has lots of spark spells going in it. It isn't safe to enter and you don't need to enter it. The third room has more robot units in it. Continue to the end of the hallway and then turn north. Follow the corridor around to the next intersection and explore the room to the south.
The south area leads back to a balcony that overlooks the main meeting hall. Heading north will lead to a similar overlook on the north side of the room. Return back down the corridor you followed to get here and continue south past the storerooms.
Just before you get to a four way intercetion, there is a door on the east wall. Open that door and enter the room. The chests here have lots of good stuff: 3 blasters, a blaster rifle, a Control Cube, and one of each of the Memory Crystals (just in case you lose the first set). Return to the hallway and round the corner. To the east is a computer panel that reads: "We apologize for any inconvenience, but we ask that all personnel evacuate the facility at this time. Please do not be alarmed. Thank you." Probably because all of the 'bots are out to get you. Continue east down the corridor.
Down at the end of the hall, there is another console that says: "Before entering the Planetary Reaction Chamber, please request a pair of Safety Goggles from one of our Drones. During peak hours of operation, this facility can generate enough power to produce a light bright enough to be seen from space. Please avoid looking directly into the light." Anyway, you don't need to worry about that; just continue north and go into a large chamber filled with lots of robot units.
Since you'll probably have to leave and return several times to clear this room, you can return to this room more quickly by going due east from the main meeting hall and opening the door. When the room has been cleared, return to the main meeting hall and return to the south exit. Instead of running right through the room like you did before, explore this room and head eastward.
The passage you're in turns north, opens up into the upper part of the Planetary Reaction Chamber, and then heads back down looping around to connect with the main meeting hall again from the north. At the north side of the meeting hall, there is a doorway on the north wall. Open that door and go north through that passage.
Along the north side of the passage, skip past the first door (its partially open, but jammed) and go through the second north door. The two cells behind the first two doors are connected and each contain a Patrol Unit. Then turn your attention to the south door. It merely contains more Unit robots. Head to the end of the corridor and turn south, then go through the door. There is a door on the opposite side of the room that opens when you push the switch in the northwest corner of the room. In the second room is a chest that contains a Blaster Rifle. Then return to the hallway and continue south.
After another room of Units on the east side of the passage, the passage connects with the balcony overlooking the main meeting hall on the north side. Return back down the corridor and continue north all of the way. The passage will loop to connect with the lower half of the Planetary Reaction chamber. The computer terminal in the hallway outside the Reaction Chamber here reads: "Alert, environmental controls are offline on Level Four, Sections 18 through 96. Access restricted to drones until further notice.". From the Reaction Chamber, take the west exit.
Go through this room and take the exit in the north part of the wall. It leads to a room that has a chest which contains three copies of each of the four memory crystals. Return to the south and take the door in the southwest corner (leading east). At the bottom of the ramp is a room with a chest. The chest contains a dozen Control Cubes and a scroll which proclames you Super Goobers!. (It even shows up as an award.)
Return to the main meeting hall. Take either the south or north exits and immediately turn east. Take the ramp up to the upper half of the Planetary Reaction chamber and cross the chamber, heading for the south exit. You will be in an east-west corridor: to the east is just a dead end, so head west and enter the first room on the north (at the corner where the corridor turns northward. There are some more Terminators here in an alcove that overlooks the Reaction chamber. A computer console here reads: "Warning, intruder alert, Level Four, Section. All drones proceed to Level Four to intercept intruders. Reactor is offline. Encryption integrity at 2.064%." I wonder if it means you.
Exit the corridor and head northwards. The next room on the left has a Blaster in a chest. In the rooms around the northeast corner, there is a Blaster Rifle in the chest. The computer terminal in this room reads: "This is the main equipment storage and repair facility. By now, you may have noticed several floating Drone-bots. They are responsible both for maintaining the key systems of this facility as well as sanitation. If a unit becomes damaged, it is brought here to be repaired."
This overland area resets every 6 months.
The entrance area has two pools that restore hit points and magic points. You'll need them, as the slimes and devils you'll find in this dungeon will probably try your patience.
Head North from the entrance area and enter a throne room. Take the exit to the east and follow it up and around. The first door on the right requires a high intellect to open and yields a library of spell books. Continue all of the way to the back. There are several chests and cabinets here full of stuff. The cabinet in the last room contains a Cell key. You'll need this.
Return to the entrance area and head south. To the south of here are several rooms for dwarves. Not much is down there, but this is a good time to clear them out. Then head north through the kitchen and down the corridor. At the bottom is another large vault of treasure.
Back at the top, continue east down the corridor into a room that had some beds in it. Through a door in the east wall is another area with several chests of treasure. By now, you should have the Cell key. Now, head down the north corridor.
When it straightens out, in the cell to the south, whose door requires the Cell key to open, is trapped a dwarf. In exchange for freeing him, he gives you the Key to Snergle's Chambers, which is needed to kill Snergle in Snergle's Caverns.
Continue down the hall and be prepared for the large quantities of slime through the far door. The far door has the last stash of treasure in the place.
Very simple. One room, one dragon, nine bones. Try not to make it thirteen. The dragon that lives here is called Longfang Witherhide and if you kill him, you will find his claw. If you return with this claw to Castle Ironfist, then you will have completed quest 23.
I hate eyes.
That being said, here's how you get through this castle. Either by a bug, or by design, the various Eyes can make magical attacks, such as Dispel Magic, through walls and ceilings. This means that if you "wake up" an eye above or below you, you will find all of your spells being Dispeled without being able to fight back. As such, you should probably start by just running around the castle killing things and worry about collecting loot and solving puzzles on a second pass.
That's what I did for a lot of this, which is why the descriptions of the rooms for this location won't be as complete as they are for other areas.
From the entrance, head down the corridor and then over the stairs, cleaing out the guardroom to the west. Then head down the corridor south, defeating the undead in the chamber on the west and taking the first passage to the east, directly across from that chamber. Empty out this room and collect treasure. Take the branch to the north and clean out that chamber; then return and head north. This leads to a room that (among other things) has some cauldrons of resistance raising liquid.
From here, head up the stairs behind you and you will arrive in a very large room filled with lots of eyes and ogres. The main point of coming up here now is to kill the eyes, as they have been (or will soon be) eliminating your magic through the floor.
When you have finished with the eyes (probably after a few trips), don't head up this way. Instead, from the corridor that goes south from the entrance, take it all of the way south, then turn west. At the intersection (right after the floor starts sloping up sharply), turn right (north), and then right again (east), and then right again (south). This opens up into another very large chamber with lots and lots of eyes. These are the other set of eyes that have been terrorizing your magic spells.
Now, I returned back to the northern large room, finished out the rest of the Ogres in the room and then headed for the exit near the back of the room. Open the door in the back of the room and head down that passage to the west.
Whe the corridor lets back out into a hallway, turn south and clear out the few liches hiding in the corner down there. Then return and go north up the ramp. This passage will wind around the large room you just came from. When you turn back towards the south, take the side passage to the east. Take the passage north and then turn south again at the intersection and clear out the liches hiding there. Then go back to the intersection and head north. It will lead back to the large room, although there is often an eye or two hiding in that corridor. Return back the way you came to the balcony over the large room and take the south exit (sloping up steeply).
Head west at the top of the slope and clear out that room of liches. Procede through the room, turn south and then west. Charge the band of Ogres blocking your way and procede down the ramp. You will now be at the top of the slope where you came to clear out the second room of eyes (described above). Turn north in the corridor as if you're going to the room of eyes, but keep going north. There will be a group of Liches there guarding a sign that says "The crimson embers will lead the way". A small niche will open up when you read the sign revealing a lever. Pull the lever. (If you return to the large north room, you'll notice that the large blue cube in the middle of the room has now turned red.)
Actually, return to the large north room and head through the south exit. Take the corridor south in the southeast corner of the room and clear out the cubbyhole of rooms there. Now, return to the cube. It should be red now because of the lever you flipped. Cast Jump and jump up and click the cube. This will open the wall that leads north out of this room. Head through there, and kill off the eyes and other beasts guarding the large open area to the north and west. (For those keeping score at home, there are 100 eyes around the perimeter of the building; if my corpse count is correct.)
Now head in the front door of the structure and go up the south stairs. This puts you down the hall (instead of in the face of) a group of eyes. Both stairs lead up to a large pillared room filled with more eyes. Power Liches included at no extra charge.
When you're finished with the eyes and liches, head across the room and go up the ramps on the far side of the room. Start with the north ramp. The ramp leads to a path running along the north side of the pillared room and leads to some other small rooms near the entrance on the north side. If you head down the steep incline down and to the east, you'll pass by two rooms with bone cages in them and arrive at a passage guarded by some more orgres.
Go through this room and then continue east. To the north is the largest potion bottle collection you've ever seen. Now return to the room on the west and head down the stairs. There is a wierd room here with several earthen squares and a depression in the middle. Stepping on the earth squares seems to summon Liches into the room. Anyway, cross the room, head up the stairs, and then through the east passage.
Continue east, bypassing the two rooms to the north and continue until the corridor turns to the north. At the end of that corridor are eight black potions of Rejuvenation. There is a room filled with ogres to the east; enter that room and clear it out. Then return to the two rooms you bypassed, go through them, and take the corridor on the other side to the west. As you exit that corridor, you will see a very narrow ramp going up. Take that ramp and there will be another "Glowing embers will lead the way" sign that, when read, will reveal a lever. This lever will change the cube in the pillar room to red.
Backtrack to the pair of rooms and just east of that is a steep walkway leading up. This will take you to an area that is a mirror of the north side of the pillared rooms. Explore your way through here and you should find yourself on the south walkway on the west side of the pillar room.
Return to the pillar room and click on the now crimson cube. This will open the way to the next terrible room. Now go to the room that I said summons liches and procede west from there. This is another large room filled with lots of eyes and liches. Included is a Lich King. Have fun.
When they're all dead, collect the bodies, drink the resistance cauldrons, and look at the sign underneath the cube. When read, it says "the fires of the dead shall burn forever." In the alcove to the west is Memory Crystal Delta, required to complete quest 45.
Once the cube is red, click on it and you will be teleported to a small bedroom. In this room is a chest and several piles of gold. There are also three sarcophaguses that you can pillage, but doing so will hurt your reputation. On a podium is the Book of Liches: click on it will destroy it which is what you need to do to complete quest 24.
This overland area resets every 24 months.
Start by charging right through the front door. You'll quickly get to a gate, which will not open for anything. Your automap should also show a large number of creatures on the other side of the gate, so you probably don't want to go through there anyway. Instead, take the corridor west.
In the first room, which is a barracks, there is a passage to a small treasure room. In that room, there is a note telling you that it is possible to leave from the Throne room quickly. That piece of information should be useful.
In the room at the end of this corridor, there are two doors. Behind the left door is a switch that opens the gate at the entrance. Flip the switch and return to the gate and defeat the army waiting behind it.
Now that all of the guards are dead, you'll notice that you have another problem. The next gate is closed. Return back to the corridor and turn east this time.
The first barracks room has another passage leading to a room of treasure. And, again, the last room has two doors in it. The one on the right has the lever behind it which opens up the second gate. Behind the left door is some gold.
Returning to that gate, proceed down that passageway to the throne room (and a second army). On the smaller throne, there is a switch in the handle which opens up a secret panel on the east wall. Procede down this passage to a treasure room containing four chests. Inside one of these chests is the set of Dragon Tower keys. Return these keys to Lord Stromgald in order to solve quest 34.
From the entrance, head west and clean out the corridor of all of the thieves and assassins lurking there. Then head through the bedroom and open the door. You open doors in this place by just walking into them; no clicking on them. (No, I don't know why it is different in this dungeon.
Follow the coridors here around clockwise until you loop back to the starting area. Along the way, you should have found a scroll that tells you that the Prince is hiding out in the Sewers under Free Haven. File that away and continue exploring.
From the bedroom again, turn the corner south and head downstairs. Down here are a few items in a bag. As you head back up the ramp, you'll notice that the floor has fallen away and leads to a spiked pit. In order to get buy it, flip the switch on the wall just on the brink of the pit, return to the room with the sacks, and follow the newly opened corridor back to the main area.
To the far north, there is a large room that is nothing more than a trap. There is nothing of use here, except an easy way to get killed by all of the magical attacks that fill the room.
This overland area resets every 24 months.
The monolith is a snaking row of corridors that connect open "nature" rooms. A scroll left in the first room tells you to look to the trees and the rocks when seeking your true path. In each of these nature rooms, if you click on the trees or rocks, you will find lots of gold or trigger the opening of a door.
After about a half-dozen rooms, there will be a room flooded with water. The water is very shallow, you don't need Water Walking or anything to get across. The exit to this room opens by clicking on the fountain in the center of the room.
Three rooms later, there will be a room with a door and four pillars. Clicking on any of the pillars will open the door.
Two rooms later is the room with the altar. When you enter this room, the door leading back whence you came closes, trapping you in the room. Clicking on the altar will deface it and give all Clerics and Druids +5 Personality permanently. This will also solve quest 30. Behind the altar is a sacred pool, which will open up a secret door behind the altar that leads back to the entrance.
In the first stairway down, you'll notice that there aren't any doors, except one at the end of the corridor which doesn't open. To actually get into the rest of the fortress, you either have to use the secret door on the right wall, about 2/3rds of the way down the stairs, or use the secret door on the third stair (the stair shows up as light blue if you have a master level Wizard Eye going). Both of these will pull you into a small maze of passages.
Bear east through the passages, pass two barrack rooms (the left barracks has a nice treasure room hidden through a secret door in the wall), and you'll enter a pair of large, square rooms filled with troops, capped off with a Cuisinart. In the cabinet that is off to the west of the upper room, you will find two keys -- a Warlord's key and a Storage key. Cross the room to the north corner and use the Warlord's Key to open up the door. You will find the Warlord's discharge papers. This is the proof you need to return to Castle Temper that you have indeed slain the Warlord. (I believe that he was the Cuisinart in the room.)
Now, turn back and head up the stairs north of the doubly locked door. Clean out all of the barrack's rooms. At the end of the corridor is a room with lots of cabinets. In one of them you will find a second Storage Key. Now that you have both Storage Keys, you can open the doubly locked storage area back down by the stairs.
Charge through the front door and into the first guard room, clearing out all of the guards defending the entrance. From this room there should be four doors (including the one you came in). Head through the west door. This leads to two rooms of guards.
When you're done with them, return to the start room and head east. This leads to a small church room. When the sorcerer and guards are dead, return to the start room again and head south down the corridor.
In the first room on the left, there are two rooms with a corridor leading east out of the second room. At the end of that corridor is the Ghost of John Silver. If you have completed quest 10 (recuing Melody Silver), then the ghost will open up a secret area that he has hidden from the rest of the Silver Helms. He also lets you in on the story of the order's corruption and the existance of an anhk that marks the bearer as being a friend of Baa.
Clear out the room to the north and then go through the secret door to the south which leads through a room with two chests and then out into the hall again. Head north to empty out a guardroom on the west side of the hall between the two passages you've explored and then continue south.
The room on the west is just another guardroom. The room on the east contains Gerrard Blackames himself, and on his corpse you can find his ankh.
You can return the Ankh to Loretta Fleise (in Silver Cove) and she will thank you but require that you go to Anthony Stone (in Castle Stone in the Frozen Highlands) to get your reward. When you do, you will be rewarded with 5000gp.
This overland area resets every 24 months.
From the opening room, follow the rows of skull piles down to a large room filled with slimes. The brew pot in this room gives permanent fire resistance. Head north of this room and clear out all of the slimes lurking up there, then head south into a very large circular room that is filled with various kinds of werewolves.
When all of the werewolves are dead, notice that there is the Wolf's altar in the center of the room. This is what you need to destroy, but you can't do it quite yet. Instead, head to the side rooms to the east and west, collecting all of the loot in those rooms.
Head to the very end of the westmost chamber from the Altar. As you get close to the corner, a face appears in the wall. This is the Ghost of Balthazar. He will tell you about the Pearl of Purity, which can be used to destroy the Wolf Altar, and give you quest 39. After you have talked to him, go to the eastmost chamber and as you get near the end of that room, you will find the Pearl of Purity. Click it on the Altar to destroy it and complete quest 37.
Destroying the altar will also open up the doorway that is down the "throat" of the wolf allowing you to procede deeper into the dungeon. Head down the corridor and the east, following the passage all of the way down. When you get to the next fork, turn south and clean out the crates of treasure there. Then take the northern corridor; stopping into each of the small rooms off the corridor to clear out the Werewolves there.
Now, returning to the main entrance and taking the other corridor, it leads to a gathering room. The two corridors to the south lead to some werewolf dens. On the east side, there will be a magic door on the east wall of one of the dens. This opens up an area that contains some much nicer treasure. There is also a passage that connects to one of the cellars that you can get to normally, but there is no reason to take the "back door" in. The door to the north will lead down a corridor to a dead end. The dead end is really a secret door that opens to reveal a room of fighters.
After you are passed this room, head up the stairs. You will be teleported to a different set of stairs when this happens. Continue upwards. You will arrive in a large temple-like area filled with lots and lots of Werewolves. Among these werewolves is the Werewolf Leader and he will have a black pearl on its corpse. This is the Pearl of Putrescence that you need to complete quest 39.
At the back of the temple, enter the room to the north and take the stairs further down. Again, you get teleported. (I think the teleports aren't there to confuse you, but to make the automap more clear.) Clear out the cellar down there, as well as the swordsmen's room to the south and return to the hallway outside the temple area.
The south room is just more quarters for some swordsmen and werewolves. On your way out, remember to return the Pearl of Putrescence to the Ghost.
As you enter, the first two rooms hold nothing of much interest. There are two peasants here which are not hostile -- harming them will seriously hurt your reputation so stay away from the massive area-effect spells. The next hallway has an ice trap that shoots down the hall at regular intervals. Duck into each of the rooms on the south to avoid it.
Don't go down the ramp at the east end of this corridor, as it will merely teleport you back into the corridor; instead jump off the ledge north (halfway down the corridor). Watch out -- there's a Gold Dragon down here and he's not pleased to see you. When he dies, push the switch in the corner of the room and that opens up a passage that leads into the main part of the temple.
At the end of the corridor, turn right and follow the corridor around, through a small room, into the main altar area. This room is filled both with Medusae and peasants. When you have killed all of the Medusae, click on the cage in the corner of the room. This is where Emmanual Cravitz is being held. You need to free him to complete quest 36.
If you're up for a challenge, you can go through a secret door near the southwest corner of the room you went through to get here (the one with two corridors leading out of it to the south). Behind the secret door is Q and he has some nasty Finger of Death and Erradication attacks. I'd estimate him at about 16,000hp. On his corpse is the Horn of Ros which (if you have it in your possession) lets you get a hit point number for creatures rather than a bar graph.
Return to the corridor and head down to the west end. Get on the platform at the end and flip the switch. Then take the corridor down to the end and flip the switch on the wall. This will open up a wall back near the entrance so you can get out of the Temple.
This overland area resets every 8 months.
Very simple; there is a single room filled with various kinds of devils. On one of them will be a set of plans, patrol schedules, and the like. Returning this to Osric will complete quest 16.
In order to enter the Superior Temple of Baa, you need to have the Baa Cloak which is given to you by Humphrey when quest 41 begins.
Despite having the cloak, which is supposed to make you a member, the Baa clergy still attack you on sight. After clearing out the entrance, clear out the two rooms immediately to the left and right of the entrance. Then, do the two rooms in the northwest and southwest. They are just simple rooms that hold Baa clerics and magicians. One of the rooms contains a podium which informs you that you need Expert Perception to be able to open the doors in the temple.
Now take the north door. When you round the four-way intersection, you will be ambushed by Baa clerics and druids. When they are dead, continue straight ahead. On the wall on the right, there is a secret door. Skip the secret door for now and clear out a storehouse at the end of this corridor. There are lots of barrels of stat-gaining liquid there. Then return to the secret door, open it, and follow the passage around to a balcony that overlooks a large room.
I'll admit that I don't know what the best way to tackle this room is. The balcony has about a dozen druids and wizards on it. It overlooks a room with maybe fifty or so druids, wizards, and clerics in it; all of which can attack you on the balcony. Further into the room, there is a terrace; below which is another large group of spellcasters. If you turned east at four-way intersection (where the ambush was), then you'd end up on the upper terrace, but have no way of attacking the druids and wizards on this balcony. However, you do it, you should be able to clear both platforms.
Don't procede down to the lowest terrace quite yet -- this large room is symettric; there is another "upper" terrace on the south side and another balcony. Those are best cleared by finding the passages that lead to those areas. Return to the starting room and take the central western corridor, following the passage northwards. The next passage on the right leads back to the corridor you just came from. Continue straight.
Take the next corridor north (at a four-way cross). It leads to a room with an opening leading to a passage on a lower level. You should head down this lower passage. It is trapped with spark and fireball spells and all it does is loop around back to a hallway to the south, but it is the ritual that Baa priests use to prove themselves capable in the faith. (See the Head of Baa for more details below.)
Back at the crossroads, the west corridor leads to another storeroom. Go south, turning west. You'll end up in another room with lots of clerics and wizards and two large chests. One of the priests that you kill will also have a High Cleric's Key on his body. Be sure to get it.
Return down the corridor eastwards. About halfway down the hallway, there will be a secret door on the north wall leading to a vault of treasure. Continue and take the final corridor south. It leads to a druid's office. When you search the chest on the table here, you will discover that it is locked, and that will set of an ambush of several druids.
Continue out the back door, and head south. There are passages here that are mirror images of the ones to the north, including the secret passage. Skip those by for now and south and west. You'll find lots of accoylte's quarters down here, but in the far west room, there is a small temple. On the walls are four carvings that are Baa Heads 1 through 4. If you click on them all in order, they will all be "primed" and ready to go.
In the far east living quarters, there will be a High Sorcerer's Key on one of the wizards that you will have to kill in that room. With both the High Sorcerer's Key and the High Priest's Key, you can open the chest back in the room that led into this area. Inside that chest will be a letter to Slicker Silvertongue telling him to block your access to the Oracle on the council. This letter is the proof you need to complete quest 41.
Now return and finish the asault on the main temple area, using both the corridor that gains access to the terrace, and the secret passage that leads to the balcony. When you are done, notice the large Head of Baa against one wall. If you have been through the Baa test (the curved corridor on the lower level with all of the spark and fireball spells in it), then you will receive 50,000xp from the Head.
Go in the main door, and up the stairs, through the archway, and turn north and then keep heading east. Clear out the pen of minotaurs to the north and procede. The large circular chambers to the east of here is where you appear after drinking from the fountain in Kriegspire village.
When all four chambers have been cleared out, go to the passage between the two easternmost rooms and head further east, through the d
