Baldur's Gate and the Dialectics of Plunder

Baldur's Gate and the Dialectics of Plunder is an excerpt from a book with an unknown author that has been circled in red.

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

Properties

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

  BOOK_GLO_GeneralLoreBook_BaldursGateHistory02
  UUID

  f7481770-28dc-487b-9e67-80930b0a89ba

Where to find

• Sold by Nansi Gretta
• On a bookshelf in Peartree's Home X: 39 Y: -91
• On a bookshelf behind a destructible wall in the Hhune Mausoleum

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 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.