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Thorm Mausoleum inBaldur’s Gate 3is an optional side dungeon with a secret darker than the Shadow-Cursed Lands that it inhabits. Nestled far away from prying eyes, you’ll have to go out of your way to challenge one of the game’s longest and most challenging dungeons.
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Taking on the Mausoleum, however, will reward you with not only numerous new artifacts but insight into the darkest secrets of General Ketheric Thorm and the origins of the Shadow Curse. Your cleverness and ruthlessness, as well as your morals, here will be put to the test.
How To Find Thorm Mausoleum
The Thorm Mausoleum is placed in the farnortheastern corner of the Shadow-Cursed Lands. You’ll have to go past the House of Healing and a dense graveyard beside it.
As you approach this area, we recommendhaving Astarion and Shadowheart in your partyif you care for the extra context and story-related expansions.
Raphael will meet you outsidethe Mausoleum and request that you take care of an issue within the Mausoleum.Accept or deny himandhead insideafter retrieving theWaypoint marker up the hill to the right.
As you enter the Mausoleum, you will notice anew status effect:
Glutted Catacombs: The spellAnimate Dead: Skeletondoes not require a skeleton to raise the dead in this area.
You can use this to your advantage while exploring the mausoleum, should you be playing a necromancer. Otherwise, there areno negative effects from this condition.
How To Solve The Thorm Mausoleum Puzzle
Entering the Mausoleum,there are a few side rooms and small notable looting areas. It’s worth exploring them for materials. However, for those who want to solve the puzzle without relying on this guide, it’sworth looting the Diaries of Malus Thormin these rooms.Two locations are:
TheStained Book on the deskin the right room of the entrance also contains an important hint for the puzzle.
For hints in the next area, grab the Temple Map from the desk in the north room separating the first coffin from the second, open one.
After collecting the optional hint books,venture into the farthest (northern) roomwith the empty coffin. Be careful; there areseveral traps here.
Disarm the marble trap plateson the left and right side of the entrance of this room first, and then thesquare stepping plateson the right and left sides of the center of the room (along the walking path).
There arethree pictures in this room.Each has a button beneath them.Press the buttons of the pictures in this order:
If you do not press the buttons in the right order, the room willfill with black void fog.
Upon solving the puzzle, proceed through the nowopen doors on either side of the General picture.Descend into the now opened Shar’s Sanctum,where you can search for the Nightsong, complete Raphael’s quest, and potentially determine the fate of the Shadow-Cursed Lands.
