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| description = '''Balduran Founds a City''' is a novel about the founder of [[Baldur's Gate]]. | | description = '''Balduran Founds a City''' is a novel about the founder of [[Baldur's Gate]]. | ||
| 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. | ||
| book | | book spoiler = | ||
| book text = [This text roots its subject on | | book text = [This text roots its subject on Balduran, a sailor of exquisite renown who founded the city of Baldur's Gate many years ago. The prose is colourful but a little too self-satisfied round the edges, and the novel would be unremarkable but for one small entry about halfway through:] | ||
Balduran claimed a guardian and friend, Ansur. Bright were Ansur's scales, and brighter still his breath! | |||
Yet after a betrayal too piercing to recount here in worthy detail, Ansur fled beneath the stone, thereby changing the name of the region he now slumbers under to match his draconic lineage. | Yet after a betrayal too piercing to recount here in worthy detail, Ansur fled beneath the stone, thereby changing the name of the region he now slumbers under to match his draconic lineage. | ||
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* Sold by [[Nansi Gretta]]. | * Sold by [[Nansi Gretta]]. | ||
* In a bookshelf behind the Printing Press, inside the basement of the Baldur's Mouth Gazette. | * In a bookshelf behind the Printing Press, inside the basement of the Baldur's Mouth Gazette. | ||
* In a Row of Books in the {{coords|799|746|Old Garlow's Basement}} | |||
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* The text overall is referred to as "prose," implying that the author's word choices have meaning, but should maybe not be interpreted as precise facts. | |||
* Refers to [[Balduran]] as being ''"a sailor of exquisite renown who founded the city of Baldur's Gate many years ago."'' | |||
* Refers to [[Ansur]] as being a ''"guardian and friend"'' of Balduran. | |||
* Provides multiple points of evidence to suggest that [[Ansur]] has "scales," possesses "breath" that can be described as "bright," and also has "draconic lineage." This description could technically be fit by [[Dragonborn]] and some [[Sorcerer|Sorcerers]], in addition to "full" [[Dragon|dragons]]. | |||
* The discussion of a "betrayal too piercing to recount here in worthy detail" could be interpreted in many ways, but the point the text seems to be expressing is that this event caused [[Ansur]] to flee "beneath the stone." | |||
* The book item called [[Dear Ansur]] seems to specifically relate to the events of the "betrayal" mentioned in this text. | |||
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