End Mystic Carrion's Immortality

Defeat Mystic Carrion is a sub-quest of the quest Find Mystic Carrion's Servant in Act Three of Baldur's Gate 3. It can be started by speaking with Thrumbo in the Lower City.

Thrumbo wishes to escape Mystic Carrion.

Objectives

Investigate Mystic Carrion's mansion.

• • We killed Mystic Carrion, but he seems to have resurrected and killed Thrumbo. There must be a way to kill him for good. Maybe his mansion holds answers.
  • We killed Mystic Carrion, but he resurrected, and now he's angry. There must be a way to kill him for good. Maybe his mansion holds answers.

Find Mystic Carrion's secret basement.

• • We agreed to help Thrumbo permanently defeat Mystic Carrion. He told us to look for a chamber beneath Carrion's mansion.

Explore Mystic Carrion's secret basement.

• • We found Mystic Carrion's secret basement. We should look for information about his experiments.

Find Mystic Carrion's Ancient Lair..

• • We discovered that Mystic Carrion used to work from an ancient, subterranean crypt. If we find this lair, we're bound to find some of his most well-guarded secrets. We might have luck looking for it somewhere in the sewers.

Explore the Ancient Lair.

• • We found the Ancient Lair that Mystic Carrion wrote about. We should look for clues about where his heart might be.

Find Mystic Carrion's heart.

• • We found a note in Mystic Carrion's lair and learned that he has been putting jars containing his organs within his zombie servants to preserve his life force. It's clear now where to find Carrion's heart.
  • We found one of Mystic Carrion's canopic jars. It's radiating with necromantic energy. It may not be his heart, but destroying it will certainly weaken him.

Tell Thrumbo that Mystic Carrion's heart is inside him.

• • We found a note in Mystic Carrion's lair and learned that he has been putting canopic jars containing his organs within his zombie servants to preserve his life force. We must tell Thrumbo.

Destroy Mystic Carrion's heart.

• • We killed Mystic Carrion, but he seems to have resurrected and stolen his heart back from us. We must get it back and destroy it to defeat him for good.
  • We told Thrumbo that he had Carrion's heart in his chest and he vomited it out. We should destroy it.
  • We found Mystic Carrion's heart. We must destroy it if we are to kill him for good.
  • We managed to destroy one of Mystic Carrion's canopic jars with fire. We should do the same to the one that contains his heart.

Destroy Carrion's heart

• • Mystic Carrion's heart is destroyed. If we kill him now, he will die for good.
  • We gave the jar containing Mystic Carrion's heart back to him.

Walkthrough

The location of A Mummy's Memoir.

Defeat Mystic Carrion is gained after following Find Mystic Carrion's Servant and talking to Thrumbo after finding him. Siding with Thrumbo initiates Defeat Mystic Carrion. To kill Mystic Carrion for good, his heart must be destroyed. Thrumbo mentions he was brought down to a cellar by Mystic Carrion, so the Mansion is a good place to begin. Take the stairs on the side of the mansion without entering the room that Mystic Carrion is in. On this floor, there is a locked door. Lockpicking it leads to a room full of corpses and, further north, an iron ladder (X:19, Y:-153). Take the ladder to find part of Mystic Carrion's lair. Within the lair is a book called A Mummy's Memoir which references an ancient lair in the Undercity Ruins. Alternatively, there is a hole in the wall (X:-1499, Y:-140) that can be bypassed using Wild Shape, Disguise Self, Gaseous Form, or other means.

Location of Funerary Jar Form and Function.

Using the Undercity Ruins waypoint, move west to discover a passageway (X:-180, Y:934). Entering the passageway leads to the Ancient Lair and a room full of gilded chests with a hidden door on the north wall (X:-1390, Y:75). Opening any chest or lockpicking the door (DC 20) causes a horde of undead monsters to rise up and attack the party. Through the stone door lies Mystic Carrion's workshop with a book called Funerary Jar Form and Function (X:-1395, Y:84). Reading it reveals that Carrion's heart is inside of Thrumbo. The Jar of Mystic Carrion's Brain and Jar of Mystic Carrion's Liver can also be found here.

Return to Thrumbo and tell him the heart is inside of him. Disturbed, he pukes up the Jar of Mystic Carrion's Heart. The jar can be destroyed using ranged attacks, as it explodes destruction dealing 8d6 Fire damage.

Three other canopic jars can be destroyed to weaken Mystic Carrion, but doing so is not necessary to permanently defeat him:

• Jar of Mystic Carrion's Lungs is in the Graveyard's Mortuary basement
• Jar of Mystic Carrion's Liver is in a Gilded Chest in the Ancient Lair
• Jar of Mystic Carrion's Brain is on a table in the Ancient Lair

With Mystic Carrion's heart destroyed, he can be permanently destroyed. Return to the mansion and face off against him to free Thrumbo and his friends once and for all.

Once Mystic Carrion is defeated, his body can be looted. It has Scroll of Circle of Death, Staff of Cherished Necromancy, Armour of the Sporekeeper, Veil of the Morning, Crystalline Lens, and a Rusty Key that opens the gilded chest in the back of the room. The chest contains the Torch of Revocation. After Mystic Carrion's death, Thrumbo takes over as a trader, selling the same items as his former master.

Quest Rewards

• Crypt Lord Ring