https://www.twitch.tv/tiepo01/clip/SmokyTawdrySwordCoolStoryBro-EaaZUYWfGi_nV6oh

1. Chased down the snow witch

2. The Healing pot by the barrels was just there. It was not dropped.

3. Picked up the pot and teleported me to Lazarus Lair

Have you managed to replicate this? Huge find!

Here's another clip of me failing this and succeeding a second time

https://www.twitch.tv/tiepo01/clip/CrazyVivaciousDumplingsGingerPower-EWj16fBCNTPws2bE?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time

Hello. I'm not a specialist in that, but I think this is the undiscovered Lazarus portal. Lazarus quest works like this - it's always available, but it's hidden at position X,Y. After you bring the staff to the town, its position is multiplied by 2: it's X times 2*,* Y times 2 (and it's visible as the red town portal). That's why you've stumbled upon Lazarus entrance in the North part of the map.

So i did some more testing. It appears you are correct @Krzysiek. Its not me picking up the potion. Its me running at the specific coordinate where the lazarus portal is hidden and thats based on the map layout. Damn I thought i discovered something cool but this turns out to just be relative to where they put those coordinates and this is not viable in RTA :(

@Krzysiek , this means that if it's hidden at the north, you can find pentagram, divide values of X/Y by 2 and detect hidden portal coordinates? Though it could be in the walls so you can't quickly get to the Lazarus. I saw this glitch before, when you run randomly at DLVL 15 and it teleports you to the Lazarus. But didn't know how it works.

Yup, I think guys working on Devilution shared that cool tip regarding portal position. Wall spawn is the unfortunate possibility.