The Sorcerous Vault is a location where several magical items may be found, including two very important books for different quests.
Making your way to the Sorcerous Vault will require you to take certain steps if you plan on completing the Unlock the Ancient Tome and/or The Wizard of Waterdeep quests.
Aside from progressing with these quests, the Sorcerous Vault has a lot more to offer and this includes valuable items that you get your hands on.
How To Enter The Sorcerous Vault?
Portal in Office
If you head to the Sorcerous Sundries and make your way upstairs, you will find an office behind a locked Metal Door on the left.
Entering this room will allow you to head to the bookcase and you may interact with the Clasped Book to open a portal to the Sorcerous Vault.
Weave Button in Ramazith’s Tower
You can get to Ramazith’s Tower by entering the one that appears the first time you go upstairs and have a conversation with a projection of Lorroakan.
This takes you to the location (upper floor) where you may confront Lorroakan during the Find The Nightsong quest.
If you head down by jumping on the floating sets of furniture, you will reach an area where there are buttons, which includes one that takes you to the Sorcerous Vault.
It is recommended to use the See Invisibility spell to see which button you need to press as this will reveal their labels.
Sorcerous Vault Door Puzzle
Once you are inside the Sorcerous Vault, you will eventually make your way to 3 doors and these are labeled as Elminster, Silverhand, and Karthus.
Elminster and Karthus will be locked as these are where all the goodies may be found and to unlock them, you need to go through the Silverhand door.
This takes you to several rooms with other doors that you need to head into as you search for rooms with levers that will open the Elminster and Karsus doors.
The quick solution to this puzzle is going through the doors following these paths:
- Elminster – Silverhand > Evocation > Wish
- Karsus – Silverhand > Abjuration > Silver
Once you have pulled the lever in the correct room, exiting through any door will bring you back to the main area where the Karus and/or Elminster doors will be opened.
What is in The Sorcerous Vault?
1) The Red Knight’s Strategem
This Legendary Book can be found in a Display Case and once you have read it, you will obtain the Scroll of Artistry of War.
This is considered as a stronger version of Magic Missile and only one scroll exists in the game, making it necessary to have a wizard learn it.
2) Karsus Vault
One of the vaults that can be entered contains various loots as well as The Annals of Karthus book, which allows you to progress with The Wizard of Waterdeep quest.
Notable loot you can find includes the following:
- Foebreaker – Very Rare Maul (Gilded Chest)
- Scroll of Otto’s Irresistible Dance (Gilded Chest)
- 70 Gold (Gilded Chest)
- Silver Ingot (Gilded Chest)
- Greataxe +1
- Glaive +1
- Merregon Halberd
- Longsword +1
- Greatsword +1
- Scroll of Dethrone
There are invisible chests in this vault that can be revealed with See Invisibility. (Spell)
3) Elminster Vault
Within the Elminster Vault, you will also be able to obtain various loot, and this includes The Tharchiate Codex, which allows you to unlock the powers of the Necromancy of Thay.
Notable loots that can be found in this vault include the following:
- Scroll of Otto’s Irresistible Dance (Gilded Chest)
- Scroll of Globe of Invulnerability (Gilded Chest)
- 255 Gold (Gilded Chest)
- Pyroquickness Hat – Very Rare Hat (Opulent Chest)
- 59 Gold (Opulent Chest)
- Gold Ingot (Opulent Chest)
- Elixir of See Invisibility (Opulent Chest)
- Diluted Oil of Sharpness (Opulent Chest)
- Wyvern Toxin (Opulent Chest)
There are invisible chests in this vault that can be revealed with See Invisibility. (Spell)
Verdict
Making your way to the Sorcerous Vault can be easy if you know where to go, and once you find the Sorcerous Sundries, everything afterward should be easy.
Be sure to use See Invisibility as several invisible chests will be revealed once you come close to them while affected by the spell.
Watch out for the traps that you find along the way as there are several of them, especially when you reach the part where there are multiple doors.