Locked gate in "Monastery: Find the Gem" (Bug?)

[The Nue]

So I'm in the above mentioned quest, at the respective point... through the teleportation circle into the weird area filled with spirits and such. Looted and intereracted with everything I could, and now... no idea what I'm supposed to do.

Looking at guides, it seems I'm supposed to cross the bridge at the opposite end from the long rest point (and then there's supposed to be something about a cutscene and a dragon and some guy named Razan or something?). Just one issue: there's a locked gate, and it just says "This gate has no visible lock". None of the guides I can find make any mention of this, as though it's normally not locked at all or something... it's left me very confused if I missed something so obvious that they felt it wasn't worth mentioning, or if my file is somehow bugged, but I can find no means to open this gate to proceed.

Can anyone offer any insight?

[Traveler]

I saw something in another forum saying there's a book in the library that acts like a switch but I can't find it.

[RPGFiend]

As the previous post mentioned, there is a book in the library that acts as a switch to unlock the gate. Just hold ALT and look for the smallest highlighted object.

[Traveler]

Originally posted by Azmo:

As the previous post mentioned, there is a book in the library that acts as a switch to unlock the gate. Just hold ALT and look for the smallest highlighted object.

Are we talking about two different monestaries? The door to the Dragon was operated by a statues hand that it I only found after 3 reloads and was visible only at one camera angle.

[Cartesian Duelist]

Originally posted by Traveler:

Are we talking about two different monestaries? The door to the Dragon was operated by a statues hand that it I only found after 3 reloads and was visible only at one camera angle.

There's also a book in the library that opens a locked gate to a side room. The OP is obviously missing the one in the statue's hand which opens the gate to the bridge that leads to the dragon. The book in the library disappears after you meet the dragon though, so you have to activate it before going to the dragon otherwise you miss out on the goods in the other locked room.

[Traveler]

Originally posted by Cartesian Duelist:

Originally posted by Traveler:

Are we talking about two different monestaries? The door to the Dragon was operated by a statues hand that it I only found after 3 reloads and was visible only at one camera angle.

There's also a book in the library that opens a locked gate to a side room. The OP is obviously missing the one in the statue's hand which opens the gate to the bridge that leads to the dragon. The book in the library disappears after you meet the dragon though, so you have to activate it before going to the dragon otherwise you miss out on the goods in the other locked room.

Never found the book at all. Used a teleport spell to get into the side room with the trap.

[The Nue]

Yeah, the obvious thing I missed was the thing in the statue's hand (I think other alt-lit objects were overlapping it). Thanks for the help, gang

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I used Misty Step to get past the door to the dragon... and now I am stuck inside, with no Misty steps left. The door remained locked even after the scene with the dragon, and fast travel doesn't work. Luckily I have a scroll and an arcane recovery but if I didn't have those things, would I be permanently trapped in there? Seems like a potential bug.