Player character picking up the Necromancy of Thay. Destroy the Ancient Tome is a sub-quest of Search the Cellar in Act One of Baldur's Gate 3. It is initiated upon finding the book Necromancy of Thay in the Blighted Village .
Objectives and journal entries may vary pending story decisions and outcomes.
Destroy the book.
Evil is inscribed on every page of this book. But all evil has a weakness - there must be a way to destroy it.
Only light from the divine can burn away this book's evil.
Quest Complete
The book has been destroyed, along with any dark secrets it contained. Good riddance.
The book was too valuable to be destroyed - we decided to take its knowledge for ourselves.
The book was lost, along with any dark secrets it contained.
The Necromancy of Thay is obtained during Search the Cellar in the apothecary's secret laboratory, accessible past the Ornate Mirror . Removing the book from its trapped room initiates a quest to either Unlock the Necromancy of Thay's secrets or destroy it forever.
The book can only be destroyed by dropping it on the ground and attacking it with Radiant Guiding Bolt . Three hostile Shadows are spawned upon its destruction. Throwing a bottle of Holy Water at the book doesn't work. Throwing the book into a chasm causes it to bounce back to the thrower.
Destroying the book nets disapproval from Astarion , but approval from Karlach , Lae'zel , and Wyll .[verify
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