OK, I guess it's not possible to defeat this thing and one is supposed to avoid it or something? Read a lot of walkthroughs etc and it appears that they are dated. Teleportation only works as far as I can tell with grabbing objects, some say lure into poison and explode (that'd work if it could be done about 20 times). Supposedly it moves slow - right! teleports on top of a character and kills them as soon as the battle begins. Teleports over the poison clouds. teleports into the small rooms. I like a challenge but apparently this was designed to be unbeatable at default difficulty. Exploding arrow in poison cloud causes about 10% damage at most. No, I'm not using ice shards :)

There's likely a trick but apparently nobody is saying because all the forums are just plain wrong about this guy. I suspect it was too easy in the past so the latest version has made it so old methods are useless. OK, I don't mind the spoiler here - my hair is already grey due to age so I think I'll just melt or something if I keep trying and failing. Alternately, since this is my first playthrough, I might just start over even though I am at level six. Perhaps fine tuning money making would make it so I had better armor or something and I likely made a mistake by ticking off the old source hunter in the inn and the healer in the library - neither will join my party so I have wolfie and the dirty women (I'm lousy with names).

Source Abomination is level 8 (I believe) but I recall reading that it was level 10.

I think dual dialogue is the issue with Madora - my alter ego doesn't want a crazy woman in the group. Jahan, however, just doesn't give an option to join (I had dismissed Bairdotr prior). As far as too low a level - highly probable - often happens to me in this sort of game on a first playthrough. I'm running out of areas to check to level up in, though (I probably missed a lot as I try not to look at walkthroughs, etc, until I am thoroughly frustrated). That's why I'm thinking of a restart. For one, I'm not quick enough with the healing solutions and either have several hundred lost health points in a turn so "die" before using them (using a lot of those resurrection scrolls which keeps my money supply down) or I get caught in a spiral of low HP, use a potion, not enough points left to attack, lose a lot of HP, use a potion, ---- n. Often in this sort of game, bad early decisions can make it so that a come back is unlikely - it always goes much better on try 2 (but, alas, that is a double-edged sword as I also know too much on try 2).

Don't get me wrong, I'm greatly enjoying the game; I'm just not as driven as many a person so don't do as well :)

Amazing what going up a single level will do; was able to create a fire elemental to keep the source abomination busy for a while and that made all the difference in the world. There were a few tasks I had missed; I did the double/ally puzzle (took a while to stumble onto the trick) and the lone infernal archer at the bridge in the east to get up a level; even managed to kill the black wolf pack. Jahan would have made it easier - I have nobody even closely configured as a healer. I'll have to look at the mercenaries in the Homeworld (?) again; I may have high enough of a level to get a good healer there. I'll experiment with Jahan too the next time I'm in town.