Baldur's Gate 3 Lets you immerse yourself in the world Dungeons and DragonsTranslated from Tabletop to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S by Larian Studios. As such, the game is full of fantastic creatures, deadly opponents, and interesting quests for you to face and overcome.
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a quick one Baldur's Gate 3 A quest that can lead to unexpected results is the quest The Cellar, which can be started in the Blighted Village in Act One. After reading a journal in the alchemist's house in the village, you'll be given a quest to discover the alchemist's true identity — and the contents of his secret cellar beneath the house.
Updated on November 5, 2025 by Jeff Brooks: This guide details what can be done with Thai's Necromancy, starting with the humble Act One to late-game Act Three adventures. You'll need to pass some very difficult skill checks for the best rewards, but this book is absolutely worth the time investment required to get it. The guide has been updated with new photos, patterns, helpful links, and clear instructions on what to do with this mysterious tome.
Where to find Thay's Necromancy
Beneath the Blighted Village (Act One)
The Necromancy of Thay A wicked book is one you can find early on in your journey Baldur's Gate 3. more specifically, You can find it in Act One of the Apothecary Basement. All you have to do is travel ruined village Then go to the first house on your left from the Blighted Village Waypoint. This is the Village Apothecary, and you'll be able to find a wooden hatch behind the leading counter in the Apothecary's basement.
Once you're in the Apothecary's basement, look for a Lever on the wall behind some crates On the opposite side of the basement from the stairs. Activating this lever will open a secret passage nearby, which will eventually lead to a confrontation with some Skeleton Guardians. Once you take these out, keep exploring the basement to eventually stumble upon one Ornate mirror. As it turns out, it's a magic mirror that you can actually talk to, and there are several different ways you can successfully pass the mirror and get to the room that holds the Thai Book of Necromancy:
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dialog options |
DC |
explanation |
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threat |
15+ |
You can try to intimidate by threatening to break the mirror. |
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Bard threatened |
15+ |
If you're a bard you can bully a mirror, you'll sell it as an antique. |
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strength |
15+ |
You can use a nearby rock without exceeding the toughness threshold. |
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Dark Journal (Persuasion) |
15+ |
If you find the Dark Journal in the casket in this basement and read it, you can trick the mirror into thinking you are its owner, Eileen Toth. |
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Destroy the mirror |
N/A |
Outside of conversation, if you can do 22+ damage to a mirror in a single hit, you can destroy it, passing the medium hardness threshold. |
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Pass the mirror's quiz |
N/A |
You can also go the route of answering a series of questions from the mirror, and this quiz comes with its own skill checks and routes. |
After passing the Magic Mirror, To get to the Rusted Iron Gate in this room you need to find the Rusted Key or use various other methods. You'll obviously want to disarm the traps in this room, but once you're inside, you'll be able to grab the Thai Book of Necromancy.
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How To Unlock Thai Necromancy
You need to find a dark sapphire
To actually open the Thai Book of Necromancy, you need Dark Amethyst. Thankfully, it can also be found in the Blighted Village – specifically, down the village well in the lair of the Matriarch Spider. You must climb down this well (or, alternatively, break down the wall leading to the cave below the well in the blacksmith's basement). You can find Dark Amethyst on a pile of bones at the western end of this cave, behind all the Phase Spiders and their Matriarch.
The standard route is to defeat all these spiders first and then get the Dark Amethyst, but you can use stealth or invisibility to sneak behind the spiders, grab the Amethyst, and teleport out, though this is much harder to pull off.
After obtaining the Dark Amethyst using whatever route you decide, interact with Necromancy of Thy in your inventory. You will get an option'Place the amethyst in the slot on the book cover,' and you want to select it. From here, you will have four options, and the one you want to choose is 'Open Book'.
What to do with Thai necromancy
Obviously, you want to read it
If you are looking for a guide on how to unlock Thai book necromancy, you will want to read this successfully. To read this book, you must pass three separate intelligence checks after opening the book, and if you fail any of them, you will suffer a curse. (Either Whisper of Madness or Baleful Knowledge Curse, both do the same thing: cause loss on Wisdom checks unless the curse spell is removed on the character).
However, with each success, you will earn rewards such as Speak with the dead ritual spell and Forbidden knowledge passive feature. After passing all three initial saving throws, you get everything out of the book (for now), and it closes.
Unlock Thai's full potential Necromancy in Act Three
It's easy to forget about the item stuck in your inventory all the way through Act One, but you're finally able to unlock Thai's full potential of necromancy in the titular city of Baldur's Gate. Tharchiate CodexA secret tome is found in the vault below Different types of magicians — In particular, Elminister's section of the vault.
Reading the Tharchiate Codex will curse your character Dry tharchiatewhich reduces their Constitution score by 5 points. Once the Remove Curse is removed via the Curse spell, however, your character will then benefit. Tharchiate Codex: The Blessingwhich grants 20 temporary hit points once per long rest.
After you read the Tharchiate Codex, you can re-read Tycho's Necromancy. Passing a Wisdom saving throw (DC 20) Rereading will provide a powerful new ability: you can cast Danse Macabre magicWhich summons four demons to fight for you.
The table below details the full breakdown of potential rewards for reading Thai necromancy.
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work |
reward |
explanation |
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Successfully turning (at least) one page |
Speak with the dead ritual spell |
The Speak With Dead spell will be permanently castable for whoever does this. |
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Successfully flipping all three pages |
Forbidden knowledge |
A permanent passive feature that gives you +1 on all Intelligence saving throws and ability checks. |
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After reading the Tharchiate Codex, re-read the book |
Spell Danse Macabre |
A permanent 5th-level Necromancy spell that unlocks for the character reading the book; This allows them to summon four (uncontrolled) ghouls to fight for you. Can be used once per long rest. |
If you choose to destroy Thai necromancy?
If you don't want to go into the dark secrets of the book, you can choose Destroy the book using radiant damageBut it's not really recommended because it only gets you a little bit of approval from Karlach, Liesel, and Will—and it forces you to fight three enemy shadows while the book is destroyed.
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What to Do with Thai Necromancy (Video Walkthrough)
Overall, Thai's Necromancy is one of Act One's most mysterious items, and it's great that there are so many different ways to unlock it – and rewards for doing so.
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August 3, 2023
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and gore, partial nudity, sexual content, strong language, violence
