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Getting to Bhaal’s Temple inBaldur’s Gate 3is no easy feat. In fact, it’s safe to say that doing so is one of the biggest challenges in Act 3. Requiring you to travel every inch of the underground and the most obscure locations in the Lower City, this long quest will leave you dragging your feet along the way.
However, you won’t get to turn your back on it. How could you when Orin kidnapped one of your very own? If you want to save your companion, keep the city safe, and take down the champion of Murder itself, your sights need to be set on the deepest, darkest part of Baldur’s Gate.
Updated June 04, 2025 by Alexis Campbell:We’ve updated the guide to include alternative methods of entering Bhaal’s temple when playing as the Dark Urge, as well as minor dialogue changes to the first Undercity Ruins entrance.
How To Find The Amulet Of Bhaal
TheAmulet of Bhaalis the first step to entering the temple. Without it, you’ll be a sitting duck in blood - literally.
Getting the Amulet, much like the rest of this adventure, is no small task. You’ll have tocompleteall of the Investigate the Murders quest,including the finale with the Murder Tribunal. Whether youdefeat the Murder Tribunalor accept Bhaal as your lord, you’ll have to meet them to gain the amulet.
With the Amulet of Bhaal in hand, you mustreturn to the surface and find your way into the Underground proper.
Not to tempt you, but…if you do decide to put your morals aside and accept Bhaal, you will get access to the Echo of Abazigail, a legendary merchant who offers a slew of rare weapons and armour, as well as a rare item. All you have to do is murder a few allies…no big deal, right?
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How To Enter The Underground
There areseveral ways to find the Underground, and we’re always finding more. The top three most popular methods are:
We recommend the Guild’s Headquarters route, entering through a manhole cover just beside (left of) the Basilisk Gate Waypoint. This will help youskip the poison fogat the Emperor’s Hideout entrance.
How To Navigate The Underground And Find The Bhaal’s Temple First Entrance
The Underground iscrawling with several grease and acid-themed creatures, but they’re thankfully not much of a challenge. You’lllikely want a rogue with youto take them out quietly without much fuss.
If you came in through the entrance with the Guild’s headquarters or the Emperor’s Hideout, youmight also need to take out some cultiststorturing refugees in a southern room.
Travel north as far as you canwhile keeping on the right side path, passing several bridges and going left after you pass the bridges full of grease monsters.
As you meettwo globs of grease patrolling a small bridgeand see adoor on the north side, unlockit andenter a room with stairsand an area where you can perceive loose stones on the ground filled with loot.
Go up the stairshere and north to reach the Undercity Ruins (the Ancient Sigil Waypoint not far from the trader Voiceless Penitent Bareki).
Congratulations, you’ve practically made it.
There will be alarge stone doorthat asks you to provide proof.Show it theAmulet of Bhaal.
Once the door is shown the amulet, it may ask you toprove your worth.Tell it about how you:
If you are the Dark Urge, we recommendtelling the door first that you are here for your birthrightbefore showing it the Amulet of Bhaal. The door will then open.
How To Pass The Farslayer Of Bhaal, Gislev
Entering the Undercity Ruins, you’ll find abody and a notethat warns ofthe Farslayer of Bhaal.If you try continuing from this point without being crafty, you’ll immediately meet him and, in all likelihood, panic when you realizehe has Power Word: Kill.
Although he canonly ritual cast it, and it takes five turns, it is frightening to know that he canoutright kill any member of your partywithout a save. To quote Gale: “It is to be avoided.”
You canskip this entire areabyturning yourparty invisible with a Level 5Invisibilityspell. From here, there are two ways of reaching the Farslayer:
Using either method, you will not have to fight anyone else in the area, but you may miss out on a large chunk of experience and a surplus of items.
When you reach the Farslayer with this method, we recommend leaving three of your party down below under the building he stands on and sneaking while one capable of multi-hit attacks likeMagic MissileorScorching Rayattacks the Farslayer. This will leave your party in position to attack him. In this method of approach, other enemies may start to join the fight. Focus on the Farslayer. When he’s dead, all remaining enemies in the area will flee combat on their turn.
Should you choose to fight the other enemies in this room or do not have Invisibility, you’ll have your work cut out for you. Both the Farslayer and some of the stronger enemies have acondition known as “Unstoppable.”
The condition Unstoppable means that:
Therefore, if a creature has Unstoppable 5, you may hit the creature five times for one damage. From the sixth attack onward, you will deal normal damage.
Magic Missile and other multi-projectile spells or attacks also count as individual strikes. Therefore, by casting a spell like Magic Missile, you can remove the Unstoppable condition in a single turn.
If you choose to attempt this area, we recommend sneaking down while invisible (via potions or spell) andentering the building at the base of the hill.There are several enemies on the ground and first floor.
To find them, you can:
Take out each of the smaller minionsand work towards where Gislev is standing on his pillar across the bridge.
Gislev’s Ritualdoes not work if he cannot see you. Hisrange of vision was fixedin the fourth official patch, removing the previous eaglevision-esque range he had. Hissight range was dramatically reduced.To determine if your character is within his range of sight, you may, while in a turn with your character,hover your cursor on the space next to him.
When the enemies on both floors are defeated, work your way over to the farwestern side of the buildingto findthree enemies up on the roof.Send two units up therewhile Hiding, includingone that can hit multiple timesin one round.
Send your other two unitswhile Hiding upto the single enemy waiting on the wooden platform to the rightbeside the open hole in the wall.Take them out simultaneously.
You can Shove off all except the single unit with Unstoppable to deal tremendous fall damage.
With these enemies dealt with,send your two unitsthat took care of the solo enemy further along asecret path you must jump over(to the right of the broken wall). This will lead to aledge where two more enemies are camping.
After defeating the two enemies,stealth back to the main buildingand go acrossto the end on the way to Gislev.Exit the door, taking care that you are not ambushed by any leftover enemies, andclimb the ladders on the right to reach Gislev.
Send only your ranged units up andkeep one strong melee unit on the groundhere.
When you reach Gislev,pepper him with as many attacks as you can manageto break his Unstoppable.
Attacks like Magic Missile can eat away at his Unstoppable quickly and is a highly recommended strategy against any enemy with this condition.
When Gislev has his turn, he’llteleport away right where your fighter was left standing. Attack himthere with that fighter, giving ranged support from above with those left behind.
After Gislev is finished,enter through the doorwayto the north andlook rightto see a metal door.Enter itto proceed.
How To Find The Temple Of Bhaal Entrance
After passing Gislev, you’re pretty much home-free. The next area will have a path with statues that light as you near them.Follow these statues downward.
If you’vepassed a group of dead bodiesand looted Dribbles’s head from one of the corpses,you’re on the right track.
If youpass a camp with two roasting pork loinsand start venturing away from the lit statues towarda waterfront,you have gone too far.Turn around.This area is where the Elder Brain lingers, andyou are not ready.
If you are the Dark Urge, the bodies around Dribble’s head are trapped with several explosive mines. You can set these off by throwing something like Alchemist’s Fire or casting a spell to cause them to chain-react and explode. When they are cleared, you may proceed.
Afterfollowing the statuesdown to a large bridge, you’llcome across a Waypoint.
This isyour last safe point- the point of no return - before entering a danger zone you cannot teleport from. If you need to restore spell slots and HP with a long rest, do so now.
Travel across the bridgeto reach the large doors to the Temple of Bhaal (pause and look in the section below if you are playing as the Dark Urge).
Press the Amulet of Bhaal against the doorwhen prompted. The door shall at last open for you, and you’ll be able toenter the Temple of Bhaalonce and for all.
How To Enter The Temple of Bhaal As The Dark Urge
When approaching the entrance of the Temple of Bhaal, thebridge will be set with several traps.These will all cause explosions, dealing significant damage on your approach.
Send one adept person forward todisable all the trapsbefore progressing.
At the end of the bridge, Sceleritas Fel will greet you. Turns out, he’s been holding out on you this whole time, and youwon’t need the Amulet of Bhaalfor this part at all.
Bid Sceleritas to open the door for you, and you’ll be allowed to progress to Orin uninterrupted.
