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Monolith is a common term for adventure map locations, that visually resemble gates. They can be used to instantly travel between similar, visually associated monoliths. There are two functionally different monolith types: one-way and two-way.

One Way Monoliths can only be used to travel in one direction, which means that they have entrance gates and exit gates. There can be several exit gates, in which case the destination will be chosen randomly. If an exit tile is occupied by a player's hero, other heroes are not able to teleport to that location (and heroes cannot interact, unlike the surface/underground Subterranean Gates situation). If an exit is closed by an enemy's hero, there will be a battle.

Monoliths Two Way work in a similar way, but they can be used to travel in both directions.

If an enemy hero enters a monolith at the open part of the adventure map, its exit point will be "shown" even if it is located in a shrouded area.

Monoliths cannot be located on water tiles. Water has a similar traveling method called Whirlpools, but it usually kills some of your troops.

Two-way monoliths can be repeatedly traversed, without spending any movement points, by pressing the space bar (not in Restoration of Erathia).

Restoration of Erathia and
Armageddon's Blade monoliths
Monolith One Way Entrances:
Monolith One Way Exits:
Two Way Monoliths:
Shadow of Death monoliths
Monolith One Way Entrances:
Monolith One Way Exits:
Two Way Monoliths:

Horn of the Abyss[edit | hide | hide all]

In Horn of the Abyss, 4 one-way and 17 two-way (5 of them are for water only) monoliths were added. Player can now see the certain monolith's name by right-clicking on it. "Portal" monolith subtype was added to prevent a mess with a naming and portals have no other functions than monoliths.

Horn of the Abyss monoliths
Monolith One Way Entrances:

Blue

Pink

Orange

Yellow

Turquoise

Violet

Chartreuse

White
Monolith One Way Exits:

Blue

Pink

Orange

Yellow

Turquoise

Violet

Chartreuse

White
Portal One Way Entrances:

Purple

Orange

Red

Cyan
Portal One Way Exits:

Purple

Orange

Red

Cyan
Two Way Monoliths:

Green

Brown

Violet

Orange

Pink

Turquoise

Yellow

Black

Blue

Red
Two Way Portals:

Green

Yellow

Red

Cyan

Chartreuse

Turquoise

Violet

Orange

Pink

Blue
Two Way Sea Portals:

White

Blue

Red

Green

Yellow

See also[edit | hide]