The Underdark

Menace of the Underdark Adventure Areas
The King's Forest The Underdark	Sschindylryn The Demonweb

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It is a vast realm, where darkness pervades and danger lunks (sic) at every unseen corner. It is home to the Drow, amongst other things...

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The Underdark is a level 22 wilderness adventure area, allowing characters from levels 20 to 26 to get full experience. It is located in the Forgotten Realms.

Access and overview[edit]

There are two ways to access this area. These are two different entrances, and get you to different starting points in the map.

From within The King's Forest
- The most direct method is to use the Underdark entrance in the extreme south of the King's Forest, which initially requires simply running through the length of the Forest. If you tag the Purple Dragon Knight's Forward Outpost (located in the southeast of the forest), you can then teleport to that directly and make the run from there to the southern portal much shorter.^† Speak with Milus Sherton, Transport Officer, once you are at the camp, then again at the entry to King's Forest whenever you wish to use his services.

† Take the smaller path that leads southwest from the Outpost. When the path ends, continue southwest to the portal.

From the portal in the Eveningstar Cavern
- Access to this portal requires completion of the quest "The Battle for Eveningstar", which is the end-quest to the Menace of the Underdark chain, and then finding the Sschindylryn portal entrance in the Underdark. Until it is unlocked, the portal is not visible to the character (except on the map).

The King's Forest entrance is very close to the Sschindylryn portal entrance. The easiest way to find the portal is to enter from the King's Forest, follow the path, staying left. When the path ends, approach the edge of the cliff on your right, and look below. You should see a drow bridge. Jump off the cliff with feather fall and cross the bridge, fighting up the path to the left, past spell wards, to the portal. (Taking the path right leads back to the King's Forest exit.)

Once the Sschindylryn central portal has been unlocked, you can enter the city from the Eveningstar cavern and then exit the Sschindylryn zone to the Underdark, in the south-center of the map, southwest from the King's Forest entrance. This is the default destination from Eveningstar Cavern.

There is another portal in the Underdark at the ruins of Riz Malag explorer option, west side of the game map (shown as a blue dot on Wiki map, above). Once this has been found (and the Sschindylryn portal unlocked, as above), it is available as an optional entrance point to the Underdark from the Eveningstar Cavern.

This portal is very close to the quest entrance for the quest In the Belly of the Beast. Just follow the right hand path upward to the "secret cave".

Similarly, one must travel to the northeast corner of the map to use the "Trader's Camp" as a destination from the Eveningstar Cavern portal.

Malchor's Undersun Goggles[edit]

Although the Underdark is true to its name (it's dark!), Malchor's Undersun Goggles amplify the Underdark radiation to give you better sight and reveal hidden enemies by making them glow red. These goggles will not help in most other low-light quests (such as Rainbow in the Dark), but will work in Don't Drink the Water.

It is provided free to players from an NPC Beli Bragason (Optics Merchant) upon reaching the Underdark. This NPC is located just east of Master Scout Atrezt Dun'Robar's spawn location, in an open area next to a large pillar. Once this has been unlocked (by traveling to it from a different entry), this can be easily accessed from the Eveningstar Cavern portal. Choose "the Trader's Camp", and, after entering, look to the southwest for the glow of a campfire.

Navigating the Underdark[edit]

True to its pen-and-paper namesake, getting disoriented in the Underdark is easy. Take advantage of the maps provided in this article. The Underdark is arguably the second largest wilderness area in terms of sheer height (The King's Forest is probably larger in area but The Storm Horns trumps in both categories), with many levels and few access points to reach explorer points and rare enemies. Dead-ends often have powerful and deadly rares. Feather fall is important here to reach some ledges. Monks and Favored Souls have advantage here with their long-jump abilities.

Most parties will be prepared to fight anything they encounter—and there is much that will find you there. A stealthy approach allows casual exploration without attracting attention.

Traps[edit]

Unlike most explorer zones, the Underdark have scattered around their zones some bear traps and spell wards. They can be disabled as any normal traps.

Bear traps (CR:22) Disable DC:
Spell Wards (CR:22) Disable DC: 20:Fail; 55:Success; (Suspected: 47-55)

Quests[edit]

In addition to the Rare Encounter / Slayer / Explorer missions typical to all wilderness adventure areas, the following quests can be found in this zone:

In the Belly of the Beast - side quest

Sschindylryn[edit]

Main article - Sschindylryn

The Drow city of Sschindylryn is another adventure area, accessible from this zone. The four quests required to advance the raid flagging arc (the entire second quest chain series) are located in Sschindylryn, not in this area. So you must gain initial access here through the Underdark.

The easiest way to get to Sschindylryn via the Underdark is by going to the very southern part of The King's Forest and using the cave there. Once you enter the cave you may fight your way along the path and will discover the portal to Eveningstar/Sschindylryn. Then use that portal which takes you back to the Eveningstar Cavern and from that point on you may use the Eveningstar Cavern portal to get to the city, by way of a portal that rests on the southern outskirts of the city, and the quests within.

Should you use the portal located in the heart of the city to take you to other locations, any future uses of portals to get to the city will take you to that inner city portal and not the southern outskirts portal that leads to the city via the main bridge. Enemies that may normally patrol around this portal will not be present if you zone in before others in party enter into the city's main entrance, which triggers enemies to spawn.

Rare Encounters[edit]

Denizens of the Underdark[edit]

Slay Ha'arlax the Hunter
Slay the Wander(sic) Demon Lord, Ihlazur
Slay Chorzan the Demagogue
Slay the Wayfaring Drider (Jorenthar Sparskrael)
Slay the Drider Rogue, Hastruun
Slay Uxyndar the Magister (Durnibas Uxyndar)
Slay Arch-Necromancer Phinrae Szind
Slay the last priestess of House Jegg'Dralnoc (Galfriel Jegg'Dralnoc)
Slay Taskmaster Uthimez
Slay Slavemaster Banister of House Avithoul (Slavemaster Banister Avithoul)
Slay under-priestess Dimaya
Slay Master Scout Atrezt Dun'Robar
Slay Nessaleesa, She Who Hunts Among Stones
Slay the Illithid Ygglyshek
Slay the Evil Arcanist, Qlogru
Slay the Prophet, Massrak
Slay Kressp the Fangblade
Slay the great red dragon, Micahrastir
Slay the Agathea

XP per encounter: 3,750 Bonus XP for solving all encounters: 35,625

Tips for the red dragon fight[edit]

The red dragon Micahrastir doesn't always spawn on the instance. In fact, when he is absent the "Dragon's Roost" doesn't look like a dragon's nest at all (no gold pile, no nothing). When he is there, two chests and gold pile appears. By backspacing these from below the nest, around the salamanders' area, you can check if he is there or not without running all the way up the "Grand Waterfall" side way. For this reason it is recommended to enter the Underdark area from eastern entrance (Merchant Camp), if you are going for the dragon fight.

The bridge to the nest gets destroyed shortly after starting the fight. So all the party members must be together on the platform in order to participate on the fight and get loot after. And yes, Micahrastir can wing-buffet you off the platform. Once you fall, there will be no way to reach the platform/chests again. It is recommended to rely solely on ranged/caster nuke and not to melee for this fight.

Note that active blocking will negate the wing buffet. If you have no choice but to melee, blocking continuously while taking shots immediately after each of Micahrastir's attacks may help. The wing buffet seems to be telegraphed by Micahrastir rearing up on his hind legs, which may give you time to block if you have a low-latency network connection and your character isn't stuck doing something else (like casting a spell) at the time.

If you do get wing-buffeted off the platform, it is actually possible to defeat Micahrastir with ranged weapons (it is too far for spells), if you return to the end of the broken bridge then jump down onto the dark, rounded pillar a few meters away from the edge.

Slayer[edit]

Denizens of the Underdark[edit]

Slay 10 creatures in The Underdark: 2,775 XP = 277.5 xp/kill
Slay 25 creatures in The Underdark: 3,735 XP = 249 xp/kill
Slay 50 creatures in The Underdark: 5,025 XP = 201 xp/kill
Slay 100 creatures in The Underdark: 7,311 XP = 146.22 xp/kill
Slay 200 creatures in The Underdark: 11,460 XP = 114.6 xp/kill
Slay 400 creatures in The Underdark: 14,167 XP = 70.84 xp/kill
Slay 750 creatures in The Underdark: 19,560 XP = 55.89 xp/kill
Slay 1,200 creatures in The Underdark: 32,310 XP = 71.8 xp/kill
Slay 2,000 creatures in The Underdark: 74,550 XP = 93.19 xp/kill
Slay 3,000 creatures in The Underdark: 96,600 XP = 96.6 xp/kill

Liberator[edit]

During some encounters, you might fight some enslaved people. If you can find and kill all Slavemasters nearby, they will stop attacking, and you can remove their collar and free them.

Once freed, they will help you against any other enemy that is still nearby, but will not follow you.

Usually, the slaves are near the entrance from King's Forest, near the broken cart, and around the portal of Riz-Malag.

Captives of the Drow[edit]

Uncollar 3 slaves: 2,448 XP
Uncollar 5 slaves: 3,072 XP
Uncollar 10 slaves: 3,909 XP
Uncollar 15 slaves: 4,590 XP
Uncollar 25 slaves: 5,601 XP
Uncollar 40 slaves: 6,654 XP
Uncollar 70 slaves: 8,502 XP
Uncollar 100 slaves: 9,300 XP

Explorer[edit]

The Underdark[edit]

Each Explorer is worth 1,875 XP, the bonus for finding all of them is 6,093 XP.

Find the portal gate to Sschindylryn
Find the Boneyard
Find the Daycrystals
- The bridge to the Daycrystals is initially blocked by two Deepstone Elementals. Jumping over them is tricky, but killing all other Deepstone Elementals in the area will activate the two on the bridge, allowing them to be slain.
Find the Cave of the Elements
Find the Dragon's Roost
Find the Spider Hatchery
Find Tranquility Grove
Find the Riz Malag portal
Find Nessaleesa's Garden
Find the Overlook
Find the Grand Waterfall
Find the source of the Demon infestation
Find Agathea's Hut

Monsters[edit]

Name ^{( picture )}	CR	Type	Race	Slayer
Agathea ^{( view • edit )}	●♦26Epic Normal	Evil Outsider	Hag	Denizens of the Underdark
Air Elemental ^{( view • edit )}	●♦21Epic Normal ●♥32Epic Hard	Elemental	Air Elemental	Denizens of the Underdark
Animated Armor ^{( view • edit )}	●♦19Epic Normal	Construct	Animated Object	Denizens of the Underdark
Arch-Necromancer ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Atrezt Dun'Robar ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Avithoul Blademaster ^{( view • edit )}	●♥29Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Avithoul Sentry ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Bandit Archer ^{( view • edit )}	●♦21Epic Normal	Humanoid	Human	Denizens of the Underdark
Bat ^{( view • edit )}	●♦0.25Epic Normal	Animal	Bat	Denizens of the Underdark
Bear ^{( view • edit )}	♥17Hard ♠22Elite ●♥21Epic Hard	Animal	Bear	Denizens of the Underdark
Blademaster ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Bloodrock Medusa ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal	Monstrous Humanoid	Medusa	Denizens of the Underdark
Chorzan ^{( view • edit )}	●♦25Epic Normal	Evil Outsider	Demon	Denizens of the Underdark
Collared Cormyr War Wizard ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♥26Epic Hard ●♠42Epic Elite	Humanoid	Human	Denizens of the Underdark
Collared Purple Dragon Knight ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♥26Epic Hard ●♠42Epic Elite	Humanoid	Human	Denizens of the Underdark
Collared Slave ^{( view • edit )}	●♦19Epic Normal ●♠23Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Collared Villager ^{( view • edit )}	●♦15Epic Normal ●♥17Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Humanoid	Human	Denizens of the Underdark
Deathjump Spider ^{( view • edit )}	♦16Normal ♥19Hard ♠23Elite ●♦21Epic Normal ●♥26Epic Hard ●♠25Epic Elite	Vermin	Spider	Denizens of the Underdark
Deepstone Elemental ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal	Elemental	Earth Elemental	Denizens of the Underdark
Dimaya ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Dire Bear ^{( view • edit )}	♦18Normal ♥21Hard ♠26Elite ●♥29Epic Hard	Animal	Bear	Denizens of the Underdark
Draegloth ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite	Evil Outsider	Demon	Denizens of the Underdark
Drider ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Aberration	Drider	Denizens of the Underdark
Drow Zombie ^{( view • edit )}	♦17/18/23Normal	Undead	Zombie	Denizens of the Underdark
Dun'Robar Blademaster ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠27Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Dun'Robar Warrior ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard ●♠42Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Durnibas Uxyndar ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Elder Purple Worm Tail ^{( view • edit )}	●♦26Epic Normal	Magical Beast	Purple Worm	Denizens of the Underdark
Elder Purple Worm ^{( view • edit )}	●♦26Epic Normal ●♥31Epic Hard	Magical Beast	Purple Worm	Denizens of the Underdark
Frog ^{( view • edit )}	♦0.25Normal ●♦0.25Epic Normal	Animal	Frog	-
Galfriel Jegg'Dralnoc ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Guard ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Ha'arlax the Hunter ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Evil Outsider	Demon	Denizens of the Underdark
Harrower ^{( view • edit )}	●♦20Epic Normal	Vermin	Spider	Denizens of the Underdark
Hastruun ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Aberration	Drider	Denizens of the Underdark
Ihlazur ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Evil Outsider	Demon	'Slay' group missing!
Illithid ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal	Aberration	Mind Flayer	Denizens of the Underdark
Jorenthar Sparskrael ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Aberration	Drider	Denizens of the Underdark
Kressp ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Monstrous Humanoid	Yuan-ti	Denizens of the Underdark
Massrak ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Monstrous Humanoid	Yuan-ti	Denizens of the Underdark
Master Wizard ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Micahrastir ^{( view • edit )}	●♦25Epic Normal	Dragon	Red Dragon	Denizens of the Underdark
Necrophyte ^{( view • edit )}	●♦19Epic Normal ●♠23Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Nessaleesa ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Monstrous Humanoid	Medusa	Denizens of the Underdark
Night Hag ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal	Evil Outsider	Hag	Denizens of the Underdark
Phinrae Szind ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Priestess of Lolth ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠27Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Purple Worm Tail ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♠34Epic Elite	Magical Beast	Purple Worm	Denizens of the Underdark
Purple Worm ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♠27Epic Elite	Magical Beast	Purple Worm	Denizens of the Underdark
Qlogru ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Aberration	Mind Flayer	Denizens of the Underdark
Quickblade ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Raised Dragon Knight ^{( view • edit )}	●♥28Epic Hard ●♠37Epic Elite	Undead	Zombie	Denizens of the Underdark
Raised War Wizard ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite	Undead	Zombie	Denizens of the Underdark
Salamander Firebrand ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♠43Epic Elite	Evil Outsider	Salamander	Denizens of the Underdark
Skeletal Puppet ^{( view • edit )}	●♦17Epic Normal ●♥22Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite	Undead	Skeleton	Denizens of the Underdark
Slain Villager ^{( view • edit )}	●♦17Epic Normal ●♥20Epic Hard ●♠33Epic Elite	Undead	Zombie	Denizens of the Underdark
Slave (drow) ^{( view • edit )}	●♦19Epic Normal ●♠38Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Slavemaster Banister Avithoul ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Slavemaster ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Slaver ^{( view • edit )}	●♦19Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Steadfast Armor ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite	Construct	Animated Object	Denizens of the Underdark
Swarmhorde Spider ^{( view • edit )}	♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite ●♦14Epic Normal ●♥16Epic Hard ●♠25Epic Elite	Vermin	Spider	Denizens of the Underdark
Szind Warrior ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♠26Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Tempered Armor ^{( view • edit )}	●♦21Epic Normal	Construct	Animated Object	Denizens of the Underdark
Undead Necromancer ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard ●♠26Epic Elite	Undead	Zombie	Denizens of the Underdark
Underdark Assassin ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♠42Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Uthimez ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Elf	Drow Elf	Denizens of the Underdark
Water Elemental ^{( view • edit )}	♦21Normal	Elemental	Water Elemental	Denizens of the Underdark
Werewolf ^{( view • edit )}	♠29Elite	Monstrous Humanoid	Werewolf	Denizens of the Underdark
Will-o'-Wisp ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♠12Elite ●♦20Epic Normal	Aberration	Will o' Wisp	Denizens of the Underdark
Ygglyshek ^{( view • edit )}	●♦24Epic Normal	Aberration	Mind Flayer	Denizens of the Underdark
Yuan-ti Abomination ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal	Monstrous Humanoid	Yuan-ti	Denizens of the Underdark
Yuan-ti Disciple of Zehir ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♠26Epic Elite	Monstrous Humanoid	Yuan-ti	Denizens of the Underdark
Yuan-ti Incanter ^{( view • edit )}	●♦22Epic Normal ●♠26Epic Elite	Monstrous Humanoid	Yuan-ti	Denizens of the Underdark
Yuan-ti Malison ^{( view • edit )}	●♦16Epic Normal	Monstrous Humanoid	Yuan-ti	Denizens of the Underdark
Yuan-ti Sharp-Eye ^{( view • edit )}	●♦23Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite	Monstrous Humanoid	Yuan-ti	Denizens of the Underdark