Storm of Zehir, Underdark Black Market

Part XII of Storm of Zehir Walkthrough.

Tempest's Fury

Make your way to the Black Market. We've already been here briefly as part of the Pretty Bird quest.

Talk to Zhiir:

Black Market - For Special Customers Only

Zhiir asks you to collect some wizard lore at Tempest's Fury, which he marks on your map.

This battered tower rises out of the swamp.

Enter the tower and talk to Sylph who warns you about Shamal. There's an arcane nexus on your left. This is part of a very involved quest later on and it goes beyond Samarach so you can't do anything with it yet.

Proceed to the next room and slay ice mephits and the elemental.

Loot this place and you should find three vault keys and a Empty Ring of Djinni Summoning.

Use the keys on the vault and loot the chest for Tempest's Fury Research. Be careful, the chest is trapped and can inflict up to 80 damage, which is enough to insta-kill low lvl rogue builds.

Shamal

Four large air elementals will gate in followed by Shamal.

Use the Empty Ring of Djinni Summoning (Use: Activate item, NOT the special Dismissal ability - that's for the elementals) on Shamal to bind him within it so that you don't have to fight him. Then use the Ring of Djinni Summoning to summon Shamal as an ally. Shamal is a 10th level Outsider. He is a very useful summon.

Loot: Glowing Air Essence x4, Archer's Belt, Headband of the Binder, Gloves of Spellcraft, Brooch of Shielding, Ring of Minor Cold Resistance, Sorlyn's Ditty, Ruby, Emerald.

You can also manually slay Shamal for Ruby, Sapphire and Diamond.

Now take the cabal lore back to Zhiir for 700 xp + access to his store [Storm of Zehir Item List].

Black Market

Zhiir won't trade with you until you do the above quest. Only Xor'rill.

Note the DC 35 chest. There's a greatsword +2, composite longbow +2 and 2,200 gp in it.

Note the gnome prisoners. Don't open either the chest or the prison because the place will go hostile and you'll miss out on a merchant.

Max both mindlflayers can pay for a single item: 1,000 GP.

If you've done Zhiir's quest and are done with the mind flayers slay them and free the "livestock": 1,000 xp.

Corpse of Zhiir: Deepwine and 2,500 gp.

Cohort - Chir Darkflame - Chaotic Evil Deep Gnome Wizard (3) of Beshaba.

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