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 ''Doing so would allow Baal to enter Mount Arreat unchallenged by the Ancients. I tried to stop Nihlathak, but he imprisoned me in that icy tomb. Nihlathak must be stopped before he dooms the whole world. As much as I would love to strangle the life out of him, I'm afraid I haven't the strength. You must go to his lair through this portal I've opened, kill him, and then bring back the Relic of the Ancients. Stop Nihlathak from destroying what we have striven for eons to protect."''</blockquote>
-Portal from Anya
+[[Image:Quests-a5-q4-red-portal-sml.jpg|frame]]As the speech ends she opens up the portal you see here.  You must go through the portal to a special quest area that you can't reach any other way.  This quest is not required to finish the Act, and the reward isn't very big, so you can skip it if you want, though it's an interesting quest area and advances the plot quite a bit.
-As the speech ends she opens up the portal you see here.  You must go through the portal to a special quest area that you can't reach any other way.  This quest is not required to finish the Act, and the reward isn't very big, so you can skip it if you want, though it's an interesting quest area and advances the plot quite a bit.
+[[Image:Quest-a5-q4-nihlathak-sml.jpg|frame|left]]Once you get past the very popular (to kill) Pindleskin and down into the dungeon, you descend three levels through the Halls of Anguish, Halls of Pain, and Halls of Vaught.  (Fred Vaught is one of the background artists on D2X.) In one of the four points of the Halls of Vaught, you'll find Nihlathak, on a raised dais surrounded by Minions.  They charge and aren't hard to slaughter, but things become quite interesting once a few Ice Minions go down since Nihlathak then unleashes his Corpse Explosion skill, which can be deadly. Nihlathak himself isn't hard to kill, once you get a bead on him, though he can teleport which might slow the proceedings a bit.
-The quest area has a very cool opening area:
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-      Portal from Town.
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-      Mist-shrouded cliff.
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-      It's a trap!
-Read the captions on the above shots for more info.  Once you get into the dungeon, you descend three levels through the Halls of Anguish, Halls of Pain, and Halls of Vaught.  (Fred Vaught is one of the background artists on D2X.)
-'''Quest Prompt:''' Find Nihlathak in the Halls of Vaught.
-Nihlathak is in a corner of the Halls of Vaught, on a raised dais surrounded by Minions.  They charge and he casts some spells, but it gets really interesting once you kill a few monsters, for he starts casting corpse Explosion on the bodies of his own followers once you kill them.
-First sighting of Nihlathak.
-Corpse Explosion!?
-He's a bit like the Summoner though, lots of spells and protectors, but once you get a clear shot he goes down pretty quickly.
-Larzuk injects some levity.
 Once you've killed him you have no choice but to return to town, either by a town portal, by going back up to level two and taking the waypoint there (if you bothered to find it) or by walking back up three levels and taking the red portal.  Back in town Anya has the "!" overhead, and when you talk to her it's not all good news:
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 ''I do thank you for trying though. Please, allow me to honor your courage by magically inscribing your name onto an item of your choosing. It's the least I can do."''</blockquote>
-This isn't a valuable quest reward, but it's very cool.  It works like the Imbue quest, you click the option seen here, and Anya opens up a box that you can drop your item into. You then get it back with your character's name added before the item's name. Yes, it works on Wirt's Leg as well.
+[[Image:Quests-a5-q4-customized.jpg|frame]]This isn't a valuable quest reward, but it's very cool.  It works like the Imbue quest, you click the option seen here, and Anya opens up a box that you can drop your item into. You then get it back with your character's name added before the item's name. Yes, it works on Wirt's Leg as well.
 '''Tip:''' Extreme caution was recommended on this quest prior to v1.09, since Nihlathak's corpse explosion was absurdly deadly on hell difficulty; capable of dealing well over 1000 damage with a radius larger than the visible screen. In those early days of D2X, the skill scaled up just like the Necromancer's did, based on the hit points of the monsters Nihlathak was blowing up.
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 <blockquote>''"The demon hordes have grown powerful beyond measure, aided by our foolish mistakes. But I may have found a way to correct those mistakes."''</blockquote>
 ==Quest Five: Rite of Passage==