Editing Lenore De Hurst

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{{Infobox character
| class_title = Cleric of Mystra
| name = Lenore De Hurst
| image = Sussur Bloom Icon.png
| imagesize = 0.7
| class = [[Cleric]]
| family = [[Yrre]] (partner)
| hometown = [[Arcane Tower]]
}}'''Lenore De Hurst''' {{note|Lenore's last name is variously spelled as 'DeHurst' and 'De Hurst' in the game.}} is a [[cleric]] of [[Mystra]] who lived in the [[Arcane Tower]], where she researched the magical properties of the [[Underdark]]. She is not available to directly interact with, but her former home can be visited, and she is referenced by a number of different characters, books, and item descriptions.

Lenore kept correspondence with other magic practitioners, including [[Lorroakan]] and [[Yrre]].

== History ==
Lenore is a cleric of Mystra who was studying the magical properties of the Underdark. {{cite text|De Hurst's Diary|Lenore De Hurst|name=diary}} Lenore and her partner, Yrre, lived and worked together for a short time in the Arcane Tower, which still holds many of Lenore's experiments.{{ref|[[The Blast Pendant]]}} During a large storm, Yrre left the Underdark to pursue their obsession with storm magic, leaving Lenore alone with her research. {{ref|[[The Watersparkers]]}} Lenore remained in the tower, which moved around the Underdark, {{ref|"''The southwest, when I last saw her. Although her tower does have a tendency... to move.''" - [[Blurg]]}} with only her pet dog Myrna and her construct [[Bernard]] for company.

Lenore was fond of gardening,{{ref|"''She is quite fond of her garden. Lenore has always been a lonely sort - nature was her only companion.'' - [[Blurg]]}} and in particular was interested in the antimagic properties of sussur tree bark and flowers,{{cite text|Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers|Lenore De Hurst}} and used them to control the lighting and turrets in the tower. Lenore also created the tower guardian Bernard, a construct who only responds to poetry and play scripts.

Lenore had just begun writing her treatise on sussur flowers, before being called away to Baldur's Gate to confer with her fellow Mystran clerics sometime in 1481 DR. {{cite text|name=diary}} During her visit to Baldur's Gate, Lenore was temporarily ensnared by an anomaly cause by a stranger (see [[#Easter eggs]]). {{cite text|A Query from DeHurst|Lenore De Hurst}}

Lenore planned to depart the tower only for a short time, hoping to return and reunite with Yrre. {{cite text|Letter to Yrre|Lenore De Hurst}}. However, she never returned, her research and tower going untouched for a decade. Yrre, who was a gnomish inventor and tinkerer, eventually visited with [[the Spellsparkler]], a staff they had made specially for Lenore. {{ref|[[The Spellsparkler]]}} When Lenore was nowhere to be found, they waited for some time in vain for her to return.

===Myrna===
At some point during her stay in the Underdark, Lenore's dog Myrna died. She buried Myrna in the Dread Hollow, overlooking the lake and with her favourite autumncrocus flowers. She later became enamoured with a [[bulette]] who she found near Myrna's grave, taming it to be a guardian. {{cite text|Letter from Amarith|Amarith}}

==Help Omeluum Investigate the Parasite==
{{hatnote|Main quest article: [[Help Omeluum Investigate the Parasite]]}}
In order to help [[Omeluum]] investigate the player's mind flayer parasite, [[Blurg]] will direct the player to Lenore's tower. Lenore took an interest in gardening, and grew several rare and dangerous species of fungi.

On the first and basement floors of the Arcane Tower are the required [[Tongue of Madness]] and [[Timmask Spores]]. 

==Easter eggs==
Lenore's [[A Query from DeHurst|correspondence to Lorroakan]] includes a likely reference to Tarquin from Larian Studios' previous game, Divinity: Original Sin II. At the end of that game, Tarquin's dialogue provided easter egg information about Baldur's Gate 3, which was in pre-production at the time:
* <em>'How does one top the greatest feat of necromancy ever conceived? I might have the answer to that... tell me, have you ever heard of Gustavchen?'</em> - A reference to Gustav, the internal project name of BG3, as well as the name of Larian CEO Swen Vincke's dog and the source of the 'Tav' default name for custom player characters in BG3.
* <em>'No, of course you wouldn't. It's a written language, unreadable to most... but myself, naturally. It comes from a mysterious race from another world - beings that feed on minds.'</em> - A reference to [[Mind Flayer]]s, which are central to the story of BG3. Possibly also a reference to how BG3's story and concept was being worked on by a small team of writers from 2016 to 2018 before the rest of Larian got involved.
* <em>'I intend to seek them out. This Gustavchen seems to guard portals to their realm. And once I've uncovered one, well... why settle for being the greatest mind in just one world, when there's another for the taking?'</em> - Implies that the 'Tuqueen' referenced in Lenore's letter is in fact Tarquin, and he somehow managed to find his way to the Forgotten Realms shortly before the events of BG3.
Tarquin was later spotted at the [[House of Grief]], undergoing the Mapping of the Heart under a pseudonym. {{cite text|Client List|Unknown Sharran}}

==Related equipment==
* {{MdRarityItem|The Spellsparkler}}, a staff Yrre invented for Lenore
* {{MdRarityItem|The Sparkswall}}, co-invented by Yrre and Lenore
* {{MdRarityItem|The Blast Pendant}}, invented by Yrre and inspired by Lenore
* {{MdRarityItem|Guiding Light}}, one of Lenore's inventions

==Related literature==
* {{SmItemIcon|De Hurst's Diary}}
* {{SmItemIcon|Letter from Amarith}}
* {{SmItemIcon|Letter to Yrre}}
* {{SmItemIcon|A Query from DeHurst}}
* {{SmItemIcon|Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers}}

== Footnotes ==
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== References ==
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==External links==
* {{FRWiki|Lenore De Hurst|long}}

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