Reaching Larrel is a step of the main quest in chapter 3 of Icewind Dale.
Quick walkthrough[]
- Climb up to level 4 of the Severed Hand base tower.
- Climb up to floor 3 of Shevarash Tower (warriors tower).
- Take the bridge to Labelas Tower (wizards tower).
- Climb up to the astrolabe.
Walkthrough[]
Travel to the Severed Hand via the world map. When you first arrive, chapter 3 of the game begins.
In the small outdoors map, you see a short cut-scene of Larrel's Sending. Cross the draw bridge and enter the fortress.
The goal of this step of the main quest, is to find the room where Larrel resides.
The fortress'es layout is non-linear, and there is no "wrong" path to take through it, so feel free to explore it on your own. It has a lot of combat and magical loot, and also a few side-quests, so it is worthwhile to explore it in full. If you don't mind spoilers, see the level plan at Severed Hand#Diagram and the individual articles linked at Severed Hand#Maps for details.
Also note that for the next step of the main quest, you will need several machinery pieces that are strewn across the fortress, so if you want to avoid backtracking, try to get them along the way.
A reasonable path to Larrel's room is:
From the ground floor, make your way upwards using ramps/stairs, fighting through the monsters along the way.
On level 3, optionally find the easy-to-miss entrance to a hidden part of the base tower, and fight your way to the end of that to get a machinery piece.
On the combat-free level 4, note the corridors branching outwards to the four remaining towers of the fortress.
Optionally talk to Lethias here to learn that Larrel is on top of Labelas Tower. You can enter Labelas Tower via the western corridor, but all you see is the destroyed level and another cut-scene of Larrel's Sending telling you that the way up is blocked.Optionally explore Solonor Tower (south corridor) and Corellon Tower (northeast corridor) for their machinery pieces and side content.
Enter Shevarash Tower (east corridor), and optionally get the last machinery piece here.
From floor 3 of this tower, take the bridge to the upper floors of Labelas Tower.Make your way to the top of Labelas Tower to reach the astrolabe.
When you finally enter the astrolabe, you find the undead archmage Larrel there. You can try to talk to him, but he is of no use to you in his current mental state, and can even turn hostile if you anger him.[Note 1]
You first have to restore Larrel's sanity by:
- ⟶ 15. Repairing the astrolabe
Appendix[]
Footnotes[]
- ↑ Turning Larrel hostile means the main quest cannot proceed. Go back to an earlier savegame if this happens.