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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 | 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 | 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 | * 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. | ||
* 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. | ||