An undead monstrosity is here under the command of equally monstrous Wizards. But there's a chance to break the vase that holds this den of evil together.
Here is your initial point of entry. It also leads back out to the Underground River at 27.
You'll have to fight numerous undead as you approach this spot, including Armored Skeletons, Skeleton Archers and a Bladed Skeleton and a Shadowed Soul.
The stone pile here will have items, but only if M'Khiin is in the party, as part of her personal Quest.
An extradimensional being named Zhadroth will be here, but he can only be seen if a party member is wearing the Spectacles of Spectacle. Zhadroth will turn out to be a Lich if you use a charge from the Spectacles of Spectacle to pull him into the Prime Material Plane.
You can ask Zhadroth to reward you, and he'll give you a Ring of Regeneration before departing. The Endless Watcher will attack you if you freed Zhadroth. He can level-drain his targets with extra cold damage, and himself has 50% damage reduction against weapon attacks. You'll get 9,000xp and the Astral Crossbow +2 if you can kill him outright. Zhadroth will show up if you take too long, and use an Imprisonment spell on the Endless Watcher. In that instance you'll still get the Astral Crossbow +2 but your xp reward will be reduced to 5,500.
If you wish to fight Zhadroth then your Hero of Baldur's Gate must be either a Cleric or a Paladin other than Blackguard, or have at least 24 points in Lore, in order for the dialogue options to start a fight with him to show up. Zhadroth is the same kind of bad news as any other Lich, loads of spell protections, ability to cast high-level spells, and immune to spells of 5th-level or lower. However, if you still have The Secret Revealed with at least one charge after having allied with the Dwarven Priests during the Dwarves Of Dumathoin Quest, then you can use a charge on Zhadroth after he puts his protections up. Using the charge will tear down his protections and render him unable to cast spells for the next while, enabling you to cut him down. He will leave behind the Robe of Arcane Aptitude and a Ring of Regeneration. The Endless Watcher will show up and initially want to attack you for freeing Zhadroth. You can convince him that you actually killed Zhadroth by making a Charisma check of 15. Failing the Charisma check of 15 will result in The Endless Watcher attacking, and if you win you can loot the Astral Crossbow +2 afterwards.
You'll notice a couple of Dark Magicians sacrificing captives to the pit to become Zombies. They're part of The Cabal and will join in on the fight alongside the other Dark Magicians at 6 once that starts.
The pit is also a conduit to the Fugue Plane. So you can click on it to deposit the Remains of the adventurers' Ghosts that you may have encountered earlier for purposes of The Lost Quest.
Also, if Neera is in the party, and you helped her put her potion together as part of her personal quest, coming here will start the dialogue between her and the spirit who has been speaking to her. You'll get an 18,000xp reward for completing the quest. *NOTE* The opportunity for this becomes closed off if you planted the Barrel of Bwoosh! in the Underground River or if you poisoned either the food supply or the water supply in the basement of Dragonspear Castle.
Kherriun will be here as the leader of several nearby Dark Magicians. Defeating them is the objective of The Cabal Quest. Defeating The Cabal also overlaps with completing the Ghost Dragon Guardian Quest. But if you damage Kherriun enough, or even kill her outright, Halatathlaer will be freed from her control and start attacking the Dark Magicians instead. You can let her go to work, or stay joined in the battle if you want to milk xp out of the whole affair. If you win and she joined you, she'll warn you about "The Exile", the Hooded Man.
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