Diablo II/Lam Esen's Tome

The fourth quest can be activated by talking to Alkor after entering Lower Kurast:

This quest is actually much simpler than you'd expect: Lam Esen's Tome can always be found in the, beneath. If you talk to anyone before leaving:

If you return without Lam Esen's Tome:

Lower Kurast
This area is randomly populated by three of the following four monster types: s, s, s and s.

The entrance from the, guarded by , is always in the middle of its southwest side. its northwest boundary is the jungle, while its southeast boundary is water. The entrance to Kurast Bazaar is always in its northeast side, in either the north or east corner. You can find a waypoint if you explore, or you can simply pass through.

Kurast Bazaar
This area is randomly populated by three of the following four monster types, all animal:, s, s with s, and s.

Like Lower Kurast before it, the Bazaar is bound by the jungle to the northwest and water to the southeast, while the entrance to Upper Kurast is always a bridge across a canal on its northeast side, in the opposite corner to the entrance from Lower Kurast. You can find a waypoint if you explore, and you should probably do so.

There are also two entrances to the Sewers, where can be found, as well as entrances to the  and the, where Lam Esen's Tome can be found: the stair to it is always through a doorway at the top of a broad flight of stairs in the temple's southwest wall.

Ruined Temple
The Temple is randomly populated by three of the following four monster types: s, s, es and s.

It's a small area with three possible layouts. In two of those, Lam Esen's Tome can be found on a lectern in a large chamber through the doorway opposite the stair down from the Kurast Bazaar, although it's advisable to clear the wings to either side of the stair before entering; in the third, the lectern is in a large chamber in the south corner, accessible via doorways in its northwest and northeast walls. In every case, be prepared to retreat back to the door to use it as a choke point...

Battlemaid Sarina


Battlemaid Sarina guards Lam Esen's Tome, and she and her minions are fast, aggressive melee attackers who can easily swarm you, surrounding you and cutting off your retreat to the door if you don't react quickly enough to do so beforehand. Although she doesn't need to be killed, you'd be hard-pressed not to do so.

Lam Esen's Tome requires 2x2 inventory space, and picking it up from its lectern activates this quest if talking to Alkor has not already done so.

If you talk to anyone but Alkor upon your return to the Kurast Docks:

Talk to Alkor:

He gives you five attribute points!

Disused Fane
This small optional area is similarly populated to the.

Sewers Level 1
This large, labyrinthine area is accessible via two entrances each in the midst of the and : you need to enter it to find the sewer lever opening the sewer stairs to its second level, where  can be found.

It's randomly populated by three of the following five monster types: s, s, s with s, and s (so there's 10% chance of being populated exclusively by undead, all of which the Horadric Ancients can raise again, except for each other). There can also be s lurking in ambush beneath the surface at the edge of pools.

The entrance to the second level is normally somewhere around the perimeter of the first: the sewer stairs are on a large square platform surrounded by a narrow channel crossed by bridges on its northeast side, with the sewer lever, opening the sewer stairs in the middle, on its southeast side. However, it isn't unguarded...

Icehawk Riftwing


Icehawk Riftwing and its minions hang from the ceiling somewhere around the perimeter of the sewer stairs. It's entirely possible to enter the second level without them becoming aware of you.

Sewers Level 2
The second level is similarly populated to the first, except s and s replace Feeders and Gloombats. However, it's so small that you might not see all (or any) of them.

The layout is always the same: you enter on the northwest side of a rectangular pool in the middle with a lurking in ambush beneath the surface at each of its southwest, southeast and northeast edges. There are chests in alcoves on the three other sides of this pool, but only that to the northeast contains.

Upper Kurast
This area is randomly populated by three of the following four monster types, all animal: s with, s, s and s.

It's bound by the jungle to the northwest and water to the southeast, while the entrance to the is always in the middle of its northeast side. You can find a waypoint if you explore, and there are also two more entrances to the Sewers, where can be found, as well as entrances to the  and the.

Forgotten Reliquary
This small optional area is similarly populated to the and  in the Kurast Bazaar.

Forgotten Temple
This small optional area is randomly populated by three of the following four monster types: s, s, s and es.

Kurast Causeway
The Kurast Causeway in the middle of the northeast side of Upper Kurast connects to the Temple City of straight across its moat. It's randomly populated by s with s, s and s, but it's so small that you might not see all (or any) of them.

Midway across it's bisected, with the stair to the Disused Reliquary to the northwest, and that to the Ruined Fane to the southeast.

Disused Reliquary
This small optional area is similarly populated to the in Upper Kurast.

Ruined Fane
This small optional area is similarly populated to the in Upper Kurast, and the  on the northwest side of the Kurast Causeway.