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| description = '''Baldur's Gate and the Dialectics of Plunder''' is an excerpt from a book with an unknown author that has been circled in red. | | description = '''Baldur's Gate and the Dialectics of Plunder''' is an excerpt from a book with an unknown author that has been circled in red. | ||
| quote = This book is redolent with the enticing smell of paper and ink. | | quote = This book is redolent with the enticing smell of paper and ink. | ||
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| book text = [An excerpt on page 37 is circled in red.] | | book text = [An excerpt on page 37 is circled in red.] | ||
There can be no doubt that the patriar families of the Upper City affect such an air of reserve and | There can be no doubt that the patriar families of the Upper City affect such an air of reserve and respectability because they are all too aware that their fortunes are founded on bloodshed, pillage, and exploitation. No one speaks now of Xeremiah Eltan, who founded the Flaming Fist as a ruthless mercenary company that slaughtered and burned for pay along the entire length of the Sword Coast. No one mentions Baronne Ilza Bormul and the blood-spattered ingots shipped north from her slave-labour mines in the mountains of Amn. The schoolbooks don't mention Bogo Sashenstar's Bone Flotilla that plundered Aster Cove and abducted the port's entire population. | ||
respectability because they are all too aware that their fortunes are founded on bloodshed, pillage, and exploitation. No one speaks now of Xeremiah Eltan, who founded the Flaming Fist as a ruthless mercenary company that slaughtered and burned for pay along the entire length of the Sword Coast. No one mentions Baronne Ilza Bormul and the blood-spattered ingots shipped north from her slave-labour mines in the mountains of Amn. The schoolbooks don't mention Bogo Sashenstar's Bone Flotilla that plundered Aster Cove and abducted the port's entire population. | |||
| type = Books | | type = Books | ||
| rarity = common | | rarity = common | ||
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| price = 14 | | price = 14 | ||
| where to find = * Sold by [[Nansi Gretta]] | | where to find = * Sold by [[Nansi Gretta]] | ||
* On a bookshelf in [[Peartree's Home]] {{coords|39|-91}} | |||
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