Talk:Skeleton Mage/@comment-70.41.244.207-20120528194230/@comment-76.4.146.187-20120528202006

Several spawn in the bottom floors of the Water God temple (after you drain the water for the quest). That's the last place I remember seeing them.

They're normally not much trouble in there, but you have to watch out for the two in the middle of the first big vault across the drawbridge. If you don't have ranged attacks that can interrupt their spells, you may have to charge them ASAP (through a circuitous platform route) to interrupt via melee, or else they can insta-kill pawns by knocking them into the deep water below.

If you're fast, you can generally dodge the saurian that drops down and jump to the middle to melee them as Fighter/Warrior before they can get a cast off. But if you're worried (or you did like me and accidentally brought an escort there, thinking it was a shortcut to the Shadow Fort), you can also aggro the mobs, duck back out of the room across the bridge, spam "Come!" to get your pawns out of LoS, and fight there for a bit. You can't pull them into the room via LoS (they won't chase), but you can at least knock off the saurian cleanly without worrying about stray spells knocking anyone into the hazards.