How to solve the Thorm Mausoleum puzzle in Baldur's Gate 3 (2024)

How to solve the Thorm Mausoleum puzzle in Baldur's Gate 3 (1)

The Baldur's Gate 3 Thorm Mausoleum puzzle might not be the game's hardest—in fact, you'll have to do some even harder puzzles once you unlock this and enter the Gauntlet of Shar below. Still, this one can be a bit tricky if you don't find a key piece of information buried in the mausoleum and if you're not really one to read books in RPGs—understandable, honestly.

Before you enter the puzzle room in the far north of the mausoleum, there are quite a few traps around, so you might consider going solo rather than have your party stumble into them while you're trying to finish this. Otherwise, here's how to solve the Baldur's Gate 3 Thorm Mausoleum puzzle you can carry onto the Gauntlet of Shar and the Nightsong.

How to solve the Thorm Mausoleum puzzle

Wandering into the Thorm Mausoleum, you've probably realised by now that to progress further, you're going to have to do a little puzzle. There are three murals around the northernmost room called: Grief, Moonrise Towers, and General, with the names showing when you hover your cursor over each. There are buttons below all three, and you have to press these in a certain order to open the way. While being wary of the traps filling the room, the order to press the buttons is:

  • Moonrise Towers
  • Grief
  • General

This will open the way to an elevator leading down into the Gauntlet of Shar. You discover this order through the Stained Book you find on the altar in the east side of the mausoleum. This reads that Ketheric Thorm's instructions to access the mausoleum were "From splendour, to tragedy, to infamy". So, these three murals mark his fall: from the splendour of Moonrise Towers to the grief of his daughter's death, to the infamy of becoming a general of the Absolute.

Baldur's Gate 3 guide: Everything you need
Baldur's Gate 3 Soul Coins: Find them all
Baldur's Gate 3 infernal iron: Karlach collectibles
Baldur's Gate 3 owlbear cub: Befriend the bird
Baldur's Gate 3 find Halsin: Where's the bear?
Baldur's Gate 3 defiled temple: Solve the moon puzzle

The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals

Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

How to solve the Thorm Mausoleum puzzle in Baldur's Gate 3 (6)

Sean Martin

Guides Writer

Sean's first PC games were Full Throttle and Total Annihilation and his taste has stayed much the same since. When not scouring games for secrets or bashing his head against puzzles, you'll find him revisiting old Total War campaigns, agonizing over his Destiny 2 fit, or still trying to finish the Horus Heresy. Sean has also written for EDGE, Eurogamer, PCGamesN, Wireframe, EGMNOW, and Inverse.

More about baldurs gate

Baldur's Gate 3 foreshadowed one of its biggest Act 3 twists with music even earlier than I thought—but don't worry if you didn't catch it: 'That was exactly the idea''Work with the players ... otherwise you shouldn't be doing it': Heads at Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios say you ought to 'really mean it' going into early access

Latest

Check out this hilarious indie about a robot reporter working for a sci-fi newspaper
See more latest►

See comments

Most Popular
Sad times: The big Shadow of the Erdtree Elden Ring patch is still tarnished with micro-stutter. And it's not always that micro
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree unlock times and release date
Don't make my mistake by starting Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree with your cheesy, OP NG+ build
Early access MMO Pax Dei has launched without its most exciting features, so it needs to convince players to stick around
Cozy hobbit game Tales of the Shire won me over with a subtly brilliant feature I've never seen in a farm life sim before
The ideal desk fan for a PC builder: I've kept the best of Britain's lacklustre summer away with Noctua's quiet, effective and pricey desk fan
Hyper Light Breaker brought back all my memories of Dark Souls' greatest boss, and it instantly became one of my favourite demos at Summer Game Fest
Forget all the AI fluff—some serious next-gen CPUs are on their way, praise the sun
Shadow of the Erdtree review roundup: 'Recaptures all of the magic of playing Elden Ring for the first time'
Shadow of the Erdtree is bigger than most full games: Hidetaka Miyazaki must've been pulling our legs when he said its map was 'comparable' to the size of Limgrave
How to solve the Thorm Mausoleum puzzle in Baldur's Gate 3 (2024)
Top Articles
Latest Posts
Article information

Author: Tuan Roob DDS

Last Updated:

Views: 6538

Rating: 4.1 / 5 (62 voted)

Reviews: 85% of readers found this page helpful

Author information

Name: Tuan Roob DDS

Birthday: 1999-11-20

Address: Suite 592 642 Pfannerstill Island, South Keila, LA 74970-3076

Phone: +9617721773649

Job: Marketing Producer

Hobby: Skydiving, Flag Football, Knitting, Running, Lego building, Hunting, Juggling

Introduction: My name is Tuan Roob DDS, I am a friendly, good, energetic, faithful, fantastic, gentle, enchanting person who loves writing and wants to share my knowledge and understanding with you.