Shandalar

Shandalar is an incredibly powerful mage who lives in a skyship just east of Ulgoth's Beard. He will ask you to retrieve his cloak from a magical ice prison. You can agree, in which you will immediately be teleported to Ice Island with a wardstone that will take you back to Shandalar once you have recovered the cloak. However, if you've killed Shandalar's daughters in Oberan's Estate in Baldur's Gate or if your reputation is only five or lower, you will be sent without choice.
==Quests==
* Retrieve Shandalar's Cloak
==Gameplay==
*Shandalar's enormous saves, AC, physical and elemental resistances, and powerful magic make him extremely difficult to defeat in direct combat. One method that can work is to use Wand of Paralyzation on him preemptively; the wand's save penalty means this has a meaningful chance of succeeding. Once stunned in this manner, he can be killed using physical attacks with little further difficulty. Another is to use Feeblemind whilst he is non-hostile to make him unresponsive to being attacked, bring his health down to near death (with about 5 Magic Missiles from a Level 7-8 Mage), Dispel the Feeblemind, finish the quest via dialogue, and then hit him with a final Magic Missile before he escapes with Dimension Door.
*If you do choose to confront Shandalar, this is his spell progression:
**Globe of Invulnerability
**Chaos
**Fireball
**Lightning Bolt
**Flesh to Stone
**Lightning Bolt
**Lightning Bolt
**Lightning Bolt
**Flesh to Stone
**Lightning Bolt
**Fireball or Magic Missile (50/50 chance of either)
**Chaos
**Lightning Bolt
**Dimension Door
==Gallery==
Shandalar NPC BG.png|Original TotSC Image