Franc Peartree

In-game
Portrait

Identity

Male

Voice / Actor

Christopher York

Occupation

Chef

Stats

Balanced Difficulty Stats

Level

1

HP

6

AC

10

Initiative

0

Proficiency

+2

Movement

9 m (30 ft)

Weight

75 kg (150 lb)

Darkvision

0 m (0 ft)

XP reward

1

Ability scores
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)

Saving throws
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
0	0	0	0	0	0

Conditions

Dead
This creature is dead.

Features

Opportunity Attack
Attack an enemy moving out of reach.

Explorer Difficulty Stats

Level

1

HP

4

AC

10

Initiative

0

Proficiency

+4

Movement

9 m (30 ft)

Weight

75 kg (150 lb)

Darkvision

0 m (0 ft)

XP reward

1

Ability scores
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)

Saving throws
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
0	0	0	0	0	0

Conditions

Dead
This creature is dead.

Features

Opportunity Attack
Attack an enemy moving out of reach.

Tactician Difficulty Stats

Level

1

HP

7

AC

10

Initiative

0

Proficiency

+2

Movement

9 m (30 ft)

Weight

75 kg (150 lb)

Darkvision

0 m (0 ft)

XP reward

1

Ability scores
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)

Saving throws
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
0	0	0	0	0	0

Conditions

Dead
This creature is dead.

Features

Opportunity Attack
Attack an enemy moving out of reach.

Technical

UID

S_LOW_SerialKiller_Franc_Peartree

UUID

1556e29c-a876-4853-9ea7-283a48703a56

Stats

Human_Commoner

Franc Peartree is a Baldur's Gate citizen. He was working as a cook in Basilisk Gate Barracks in Lower City. By the time party reach the Act Three locations, Peartree (if encountered) is already dead.

Involvement edit

Act Three edit

The corpse of Franc Peartree without a hand, can be found on the floor of Peartree House near main entrance at X: 32 Y: -96. The only thing that can be looted from it is a threatening letter.

Franc Peartree is a victim of the serial killer Dolor, who murders people in order to become an Unholy Assassin of Bhaal, the God of Murder. Peartree's name can be found on a Bloodstained Parchment among other planned victims, marked Killed.

If spoken to with the Speak with Dead spell, Peartree's corpse does not tell anything important, except from that he had been feeding the barracks' inhabitants and was impelled to retire after injury. Everything else concerning him and the possible causes of his murder may be discovered while visiting the basement of his house.

Letters which can be found in the basement hint that Enver Gortash contacted Peartree after his retiring and blackmailed him into his covert armsdealing, presumably due to Franc's multiple contacts among Flaming Fists of different ranks.

The threatening letter found on Peartree's body claims that the man was killed for helping the lordling. As it goes, this scornful moniker is used by Orin the Red when speaking of Gortash.

Speak with Dead edit

Who are you?
- Franc Peartree
  Franc Peartree...

What happened to you?
- Franc Peartree
  Killed... murdered...

How were you killed?
- Franc Peartree
  Limbs... locked up... then hand... cut off...

What did your killer look like?
- Franc Peartree
  Bastard... dwarf... red... shirt...

Where are you from?
- Franc Peartree
  Basilisk's... Barracks... Got injured... discharged...

What were you doing when you died?
- Franc Peartree
  Makin'... me soup... ruined now

What was your job?
- Franc Peartree
  Feedin'... barracks...

Why were you killed?
- Narrator
  *The corpse remains silent. It does not know.*

What was your killer's name?
- Narrator
  *The corpse remains silent. It does not know.*

Related literature edit

Related quests edit

⁠Investigate the Murders

Notes edit

A copy of threatening letter addressed to Franc Peartree can be found in the mailbox of the Rainforest's Home (house of another murder victim), - obviously a mistake.

External links edit

⁠Franc Peartree on the Forgotten Realms Wiki

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