The Wizard Lorroakan has hidden a vast collection of magical artifacts behind the doors of Sorcerous Sundries Vault in Baldur’s Gate 3. This collection can be yours if you can solve the vault door puzzle. This place also contains some useful tomes and scrolls for Shadowheart and Gale. This unique heist occurs in the Lower City area of Baldur’s Gate during Act 3.
How to unlock the Sorcerous Sundries Vault
The Sorcerous Sundries Vault in Baldur’s Gate 3 is hidden and can be accessed through a secret portal. To reach Sorcerous Sundries (X: 10, Y: -70) in Baldur’s Gate, go to the Southeast area of the Lower City during Act 3.
The portal to Sorcerous Sundries vault is inside Tolna’s office (X:10, Y: -80) on the second floor. The door is locked and can prompt a violent reaction from the vault’s residents if you try to break it. Cast the Greater Invisibility spell and use a lockpick to open the door (DC 15).
Once you enter Tolna’s office, interact with the Clasped Book (X: 14, Y: -75) to unlock the portal to the Sorcerous Sundries vault. This will also update the Wizard of Waterdeep side quest. Now, go to the other side of the room and use the portal to reach the vault.
The first thing that you need to do after entering the sorcerous sundries vault is to disband your party. Use the highest perception and stealth character to avoid the traps inside the vault. Go through the Oak door inside the Portal room and then break open the Ramazith door with a heavy or blunt weapon. This will grant you access to the main Vault, which has three more doors leading to three more vaults. Silverhand, Karsus and Elminster.
At this point, you can only open the Silverhand door and access the Silverhand vault. The other two vaults are inaccessible and can only be opened by solving a few puzzles inside the Silverhand vault.
How to open the Elminster door
To enter the Elminster vault, you first need to find a way to open its door. Go through the Silverhand door to enter the Silverhand vault. You will notice four more doors here, each having a unique name. Now, you need to go through the doors in the following order.
- Evocation door
- Wish door
If you make any mistake at this point by going through the wrong door, you will return to the Portal room. Once you go through the doors in order Silverhand -> Evocation -> Wish, you will find a lever. Push the lever or hit it with an arrow to unlock the door to Elminster’s vault.
Return to the portal room by using any door and then go back to the main vault. Enter the Elminster vault and collect The Tharchiate Codex, which is required to completely read the Necromancy of Thay in BG3. You will need to break the glass containing your reward.
How to open the Karsus Door
Opening the Karsus Door and entering the Karsus Vault requires a similar solution to the Elmister Door in the Sorcerous Sundries Vault. However, you must go through different doors to reach the lever that opens Karsus Vault.
To unlock the Karsus door inside the Sorcerous Sundries vault:
- Make your way through the Silverhand Door.
- The second door that you want to enter is the Abjuration Door.
- Finally, navigate the Silver Door to find the lever to Karsus Vault.
Pull the lever to unlock the door to Karsus Vault. Return to the portal room and enter the main Sorcerous Sundries Vault in Bg3. Enter the Karsus vault and collect the Annals of Karsus book. Hand it over to Gale, who needs it to understand Crown of Karsus. This is how you can easily obtain the Annals of Karsus in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Additional loot from the Sorcerous Sundries Vault
The sorcerous sundries vault contains three more precious items. We strongly recommend that you collect them during your first visit.
Caution before the Sellie: To obtain this tome from Sorcerous Sundries Vault, make sure you have Shadowheart as the main character. From the Portal room, enter the hallway and turn right to find a hidden room.
Interact with the green-skinned book (X: 350, Y: 1010) to obtain Caution before the Sellie. Reading this tome will grant you Scroll of Bestial Communion.
The Red Knight’s Final Strategem: From the portal, turn back and look at the wall. There is a switch to the right (X: 368, Y: 1031). Push it to open the false door.
Go through the Oak door to find a locked display case. Use a lock pick to open the case (DC20) and collect the Red Knight’s Final Strategem tome. Reading it will grant you an Artistry of War scroll in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Peculiar Lamp: The final treasure inside the Sorcerous Sundries Vault is the Peculiar Lamp. Once more from the portal, turn back and go through the false door. Instead of passing the Oak door, turn right in the hallway and enter the hidden room behind the treasure chest (X: 378, Y:1041).
Collecting the lamp will make Yafeu the Djinn appear. He will transport you into his lamp, which is full of gold and treasure. Find “Scroll of Summon Quasit” in BG3 to leave the lamp.
