Divinity: Original Sin – How to Solve Hiberheim / Wishing Well Lava Room Puzzle

Solution for Hiberheim / Wishing Well Lava Room Puzzle

Gamers asking for help with the puzzle with the two lava rooms by the abducted wishing well in Hiberheim, and as I found some of the advice confusing or even wrong (maybe it has changed with the EE, or even in a later EE version), here’s how I solved it in the Enhanced Edition:

• First, there’s no chance to open the doors when you’re teleported to Hiberheim by the wishing well’s brother, you need to enter from the other side where you will arrive in due course by questing, but only when you’re in the next area after Cyseal, so if you’re still in Cyseal, just be patient.
• The monster (forgot the name) guarding the stairway to the area is very hard to kill; I slowly whittled its hitpoints down, you can do that with patience, but I think there is an easier way: If I remember correctly, the four switches you can stand on on top of the first flight of stairs activate a lava field there, so I assume the intended way to do this is luring the monster to where the lava will appear and kill it that way.
• When you go up the stairs, there is a lever before you go through the door, somewhat hidden in a shrubbery. Pulling that lever, the sentinel in the room to the left where there’s no lava (which activates lava if it spots you) disappears. In that room, destroy the crystals. Split your group. There’s a switch that was hidden where one of the crystals was. Let two characters stand on that switch and the switch in the center of the room. This removes the lava from the room on the other side. Now you can go using another character (leaving the two others on the switches) and pull a lever in that other room. That lever in turn will open the gate in the room with the two switches. Now, you can go there and pull the lever behind that gate. Go back to former lava room, where now the gate to the chest will open.

You’ll need to find a scroll to free the well, and it’s kept in King Boreas’ treasure chamber. To get there, you can now buy a “Walk in Shadows” skill book from Vometia in Silverglen – this is new, as these books weren’t sold by merchants before.

Getting through the area involves several rooms and levers. There’s one room without lava that has a lever near the main entrance. You’ll also find another room with a lever behind a grille. The treasure room itself is guarded by sentinels.

Just keep in mind that some details aren’t completely certain, like which lever turns off which sentinel, or how exactly the lava-room sentinel gets disabled. The sentinel might be turned off by a switch in the treasure room itself.

The most important part is reaching the treasure room to get the scroll – that’s what you need to free the well. The levers and room details just help you get there safely.