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=== Unlocking the Book === | === Unlocking the Book === | ||
[[File:Apprentice Pack Quest.jpg|thumb|The apprentice's pack holds the key to the Amethyst's location.]] | [[File:Apprentice Pack Quest.jpg|thumb|The apprentice's pack holds the key to the Amethyst's location.]] | ||
The Necromancy of Thay is obtained during Search the Cellar within the apothecary's secret laboratory past the ornate mirror. Removing the book from its trapped room starts a quest to either unlock the Necromancy of Thay's secrets or destroy it forever. Retrieving the tome from the apothecary's cellar is only one part of unlocking it - it also requires a key to open. | The Necromancy of Thay is obtained during [[Search the Cellar]] within the apothecary's secret laboratory past the ornate mirror. Removing the book from its trapped room starts a quest to either unlock the Necromancy of Thay's secrets or destroy it forever. Retrieving the tome from the apothecary's cellar is only one part of unlocking it - it also requires a key to open. | ||
[[File:Dark Amethyst Quest.jpg|thumb|The Amethyst is under the spider's lair.]] | [[File:Dark Amethyst Quest.jpg|thumb|The Amethyst is under the spider's lair.]] | ||
There are two ways to find the [[Dark Amethyst]] needed to unlock the book. One way is to enter the blacksmith's basement north of the Blighted Village waypoint (this is also the same basement where Finish the Masterwork Weapon is completed). One of the northern walls is cracked and can be destroyed with force damage, which leads to the Whispering Depths. The other way is to investigate the well (X:23, Y:400) north of the waypoint. Choose "[INVESTIGATION] Peer into the well" and then climb the bucket rope ladder down into the well to arrive at the cave. Inside the cave is an Apprentice's Pack (X:-494, Y:-364) which has more information on the stone's whereabouts. It's deeper within the cave. The Dark Amethyst is in the western area of the cave (X:-563, Y:-353) below a Spider Matriarch's webs. Either sneak past the horde or spiders, or defeat them all. Defeating the matriarch grants the {{SmIconLink|Poisoners Robe Icon.png|Poisoner's Robe}}. | There are two ways to find the [[Dark Amethyst]] needed to unlock the book. One way is to enter the blacksmith's basement north of the [[Blighted Village]] waypoint (this is also the same basement where [[Finish the Masterwork Weapon]] is completed). One of the northern walls is cracked and can be destroyed with force damage, which leads to the Whispering Depths. The other way is to investigate the well (X:23, Y:400) north of the waypoint. Choose "[INVESTIGATION] Peer into the well" and then climb the bucket rope ladder down into the well to arrive at the cave. Inside the cave is an Apprentice's Pack (X:-494, Y:-364) which has more information on the stone's whereabouts. It's deeper within the cave. The Dark Amethyst is in the western area of the cave (X:-563, Y:-353) below a Spider Matriarch's webs. Either sneak past the horde or spiders, or defeat them all. Defeating the matriarch grants the {{SmIconLink|Poisoners Robe Icon.png|Poisoner's Robe}}. | ||
=== Reading the Book === | === Reading the Book === | ||
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=== Fully Unlocking the Book's Secrets === | === Fully Unlocking the Book's Secrets === | ||
More hints - not mandatory to unlock the book - about the Necromancy of Thay can be found throughout [[Act Two]] and Act Three: | More hints - not mandatory to unlock the book - about the Necromancy of Thay can be found throughout [[Act Two]] and Act Three: | ||
* In the Silent Library within the [[Gauntlet of Shar]], one of the books refers to a Tharchiate Codex that can unlock the tome's true power. | * In the Silent Library within the [[Gauntlet of Shar]], one of the books refers to a [[The Tharchiate Codex|Tharchiate Codex]] that can unlock the tome's true power. | ||
* A book on necromantic tomes on the rooftop of [[Moonrise Towers]] also makes reference to the Tharchiate Codex. | * A book on necromantic tomes on the rooftop of [[Moonrise Towers]] also makes reference to the Tharchiate Codex. | ||
* [[Mystic Carrion]] in the [[Lower City]] of Baldur's Gate can be paid to reveal that [[Sorcerous Sundries]] holds the Codex in its lower vaults. | * [[Mystic Carrion]] in the [[Lower City]] of Baldur's Gate can be paid to reveal that [[Sorcerous Sundries]] holds the Codex in its lower vaults. | ||