Aquatic Museum

Aquatic Museum
Building
Contains	main floor basement library basement foyer
Original function	temple & museum
Authority	Kerish
Travel
Game	IWD and IWD:EE
Chapter	chapter 5, (6a)
Area	Wyrm's Tooth

The Aquatic Museum is the huge building on the Wyrm's Tooth glacier in the Icewind Dale game.

Description

Centuries before the events of the Icewind Dale game, this impressive structure was built as a temple dedicated to Dugmaren Brightmantle, the dwarven god of inventors, scholars, and explorers. Construction was led by the architect Alkonos the Mad, who was related to the king of Dorn's Deep.

Sea creatures were transported here from far away, and put on display in the museum exhibits on the main floor (see that article for details), in celebration of the spirit of discovery that Dugmaren represents.

With the fall of Dorn's Deep, the resident dwarves became extinct, and the museum was left deserted.

Now, the evil salamander king Kerish occupies the museum with his minions, and keeps human slaves here.

Entrances

The building has two entrances from the Wyrm's Tooth main outdoors map:

• Main entrance at (1900, 1300): Leads to the main floor.
• Lower entrance at (2200, 2200): Leads to the basement foyer.

Plot

During chapter 5+ of the game, you must enter this building in order to repair the Wyrm's Tooth bridge.

Floors

Floor	Enemies	Quest content
main floor	8 wolves 16 trolls 27-41 salamanders (all initially neutral)	NPC: Kerish NPC: Vera The slaves and the salamanders (up to 320,000 exp) Shadows and whispers (80,000 exp)
basement library	-	NPC: Soth NPC: Gareth Quest item: Engineering Manual
basement foyer	0-4 trolls 0-4 salamanders	-

For more details, see the articles for the individual floors/rooms.

Gallery

In-game loading screen depicting the museum.

The outdoors map, which depicts the museum exterior.

Footnotes

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