The Ultimate State

The Ultimate State contains philosophical ramblings written by Enver Gortash.

This book is redolent with the enticing smell of paper and ink.

Properties

• Books
• Rarity: Common
•  Weight: 0.5 kg / 1 lb
• Price: 14 gp
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  UID

  UNI_BOOK_LOW_GortashHouse_UltimateState
  UUID

  4373a78f-e768-4d43-92ab-62438569e34c

Where to find

• Enver Gortash's Office on the top floor of Wyrm's Rock Fortress, roughly located at X: -9 Y: 207
• Upper floor of Flymm's Cobblers X: -35 Y: -109

Text

Spoiler warning! This text might contain spoilers about the story of Baldur's Gate 3.

What is progress? Progress is the movement of society and culture towards a state of collective unity. Without unity, mortals, each with their own individual agenda, blunder against each other, causing friction, conflict, war. Unity - peace and prosperity - is achieved when the collective follows a single agenda, that of one superior person.

Runaway egocentrism, that urge often miscalled 'free will', is the one true enemy of Unity. Free will must be eliminated.

Control of the brain is the key. The Netherese tadpole is the perfect tool. Tadpoled, the brain is freed of egocentrism to follow the agenda of Unity. The tadpoled brain is a happy brain. There is no conflict, except against the enemies of Unity.

And the brain is all you need - once freed from its agendas of 'free will', it can also be freed from the frailities of the mortal form. The brain can live forever in a steel body, or even better, control that body from afar.

This is progress. This is the Ultimate State.

- Lord Enver Gortash