The Host Tower

You have the documents from Aarin, so now it's time to explore the mysterious tower. Once you cross the bridge, you'll enter the courtyard. Talk to Captain Islund, and he'll be suspicious of your papers. You can talk your way by him or just attack. He's an 11th-level monk.

The Host Tower: Ambassadors' Quarters

A-To Courtyard B-Yeanasha C-Gurak Entrailspiller D-Aribeth's Quarters E-Werecat Pen F-Host Tower Portal

Talk to Yeanasha and Gurak to learn a little bit about what the cult is doing here and its plans for Neverwinter. Explore the room on the eastern side of the foyer, which was formerly home to Aribeth. In an armoire you'll find the tower entry key and a small diary, which tells of Aribeth and Maugrim's alliance.

The key opens the door to the south, which leads to the Host Tower portal. This is the method of transportation between floors. Once you get to the second floor, you'll need portal stones to go any higher.

The Host Tower: Second Floor

A-Host Tower Portal B-Blaskar's Room C-Bedroom

You'll need to fight some tower acolytes when you enter, then you should search the rooms for the necessary portal stones. In Blaskar's room to the east, you'll find portal stones for the third and sixth floors. In the bedroom to the southwest, you'll find a fourth-floor portal stone.

For the quickest route to the top of the tower: Go to the sixth floor and find the pinnacle portal stone. The rest of the floors are completely optional.

The Host Tower: Third Floor

A-Host Tower Portal B-Hellish Portal C-Abyssal Portal D-Alchemist's Apparatus E-Chest

On the third floor, you'll be caught in the middle of an endless flow of quasits and imps. Search the corpses for a quasit eye and an imp eye. Place the quasit eye in the hell portal and the imp eye in the abyssal portal to close them both. For a Rod of Reversal (which can cast Dispel Magic and Greater Dispelling), place a gargoyle skull and a slaad tongue in the alchemist's apparatus to the northeast. Cast Dispel Magic on the apparatus and the rod will appear. There's a fourth-floor portal stone in the chest near the apparatus.

The Host Tower: Fourth Floor

A-Host Tower Portal B-Golem Control Rod C-Golem Replication Rod D-Golem Replication Pod E-Rimardo F-Library

Search the corpse of Arteno Geth and get his journal. Read it for information about the strange room in the northeast. In the southeast room, take the Golem Control Rod from the chest, and then get the Golem Replication Rod from the chest in the room to the north. Take both rods and use them on the Replication Pod. A helmed horror will appear and break through the sealed door. Follow it and join in the battle with Rimardo (14th-level wizard) and his 18th-level iron golem.

Once Rimardo surrenders, he'll tell you about Maugrim's takeover of the tower. Kill him or let him leave, then search his library for a seventh-level portal stone.