The hidden doors just north and south of the entrance in the throne room can be picked open, and the north one will lead to a torture chamber with a blood-filled goblet (Durlag's Goblet) on the floor as well as three traps. The secret door leading south from the throne room leads to a wheel room that is described at the end of this section.

There are eight more traps within the torture chamber room. Two versions of Kiel the Legion Killer (4,000 xp) will appear in the torture room when you read the book "face my demons." Initially the Kiels may take the form of other members of Durlag's clan. Regardless of form, Kiel is capable of casting lightning bolt spells, and should be taken out quickly. There's a trapped pot in the room beyond the torture chamber, and the pot contains a teleportation wardstone, which lights up the symbol in front of the pot. There's a similar pot, also trapped, on the other side of the symbol. Inside the room beyond the pots is a trap near the book on the floor, as well as four trapped basins (each of which holds a potion of healing). The passageway southeast leads to a room that will seal itself behind you, and the statue in the room will cast cloudkill spells on you. Quickly open the statue and take the level two exit wardstone, open the door and flee out of range of the cloudkill spells. Beside the statue are two pots with potions of master thievery, freedom, oil of speed, mage scroll of emotion, polymorph self, bullets +1, bullets +2, bolts of biting and arrows +1. Pause the game every time you loot one of the pots and the statue to avoid taking damage from the cloudkill spells.

Through the passageway southwest of the previous room, you'll enter a passageway filled with ghasts, with a couple of traps at the end of the corridor, and a fake staircase (which is also trapped).

Off to the southeast of the staircase room, there is a room full of dwarven doomguards near the resting body of Kiel the Legion Killer. The chest at the end of the bed of Kiel is trapped, but inside the chest is a morningstar (Kiel's Morningstar) and shield (Kiel's Shield) as well as some potions of healing. Taking the morning star or shield from the chest will cause the doomguards to attack. The other chest in the room contains potions of hill-giant strength and frost-giant strength.

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