Flame temple tombs - bugged?
I think you mean the mortar, and Mawdrey? Yeah, it’s bugged. The trick is to run well out onto the rubble in front of the mortar. Try standing over one of the little gaps in the rock. Log out to character select, then back in to game. You should find yourself swimming under the rubble, and be able to head down to the pure water pretty easily.
It may take a couple of tries for the relog trick to work. I know one person trying it when I was going for Mawdrey said they ended up outside the temple entirely, so beware of that and don’t weep tooooo much if it happens
The other alternative is to get one of the many portals to Rhendak’s tomb and work your way backwards. It’s easier, since all the gates can be opened from the tomb-side (whereas you have to complete the various bits of the puzzle to open them from the ‘proper’ side).
Good luck.