How to solve the Thorm Mausoleum painting puzzle in Baldur's Gate 3

If you’re trying to get to Balthazar and the Gauntlet of Shar, Baldur’s Gate 3’s Thorm Mausoleum puzzle is blocking your way and can be very tricky. Yet there’s a fairly simple solution once you understand a bit of background information. In this guide, we’re going to show you how to solve the puzzle and get through to the BG3 Gauntlet of Shar to continue your quest. Let’s get started and solve this puzzle!

The Baldur's Gate 3 Thorm Mausoleum painting puzzle explained

To solve the Thorm Mausoleum puzzle, press a series of buttons beneath the three paintings in the following order:

1. Button below the painting of Moonrise Towers (to your left as you enter the tomb)
2. Button below the painting of the grieving man (to your right as you enter the tomb)
3. Button below the painting of the man on a throne (on the back wall of the chamber)

The paintings adorn the walls of a tomb at the very back of the mausoleum, straight ahead from the doors you enter through.

One shows Moonrise Towers, another a grieving man next to a corpse, and finally a mighty king sitting on a throne. Disarm the traps you'll find dotted around the tomb first (use Baldur's Gate 3 companion Astarion for this, if you're less proficient with traps and lockpicking).

If you don't disarm the traps and make a mistake, the room will be engulfed in thick black smoke and you'll have trouble moving around. The gargoyle heads also shoot at you, so don't forget to disarm those as well

This puzzle can bug itself out sometimes, but keep going around and pressing the buttons in the above order until all paintings glow blue and the walls either side of the last painting draw back, revealing a secret passage. Now you can take the elevator down to the Gauntlet of Shar to continue your adventure - you've just completed the Thorm Mausoleum puzzle!

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