Letter from Ulder Ravengard

A good-bye missive from Baldur's Gate's beloved Grand Duke.

Properties

•  Notes
•  Author:  Ulder Ravengard
•  Rarity: Common
•  Weight: 0.05 kg / 0.1 lb
•  Price: 14 gp
•  
  UID

  S_ORI_Wyll_WyllLeavesTeam_RavengardLetterWyllAlive
  
  UUID

  966a0749-ac05-4398-9080-998fd50665ed
  
•  
  UID

  S_ORI_Wyll_WyllLeavesTeam_RavengardLetterWyllDead
  
  UUID

  365521bd-e2bd-4eea-b19a-9d599e0e855d
  

Where to find

• Left by  Ulder Ravengard in camp if  Wyll leaves or is killed permanently

Text

If Wyll left the party alive (

UID

S_ORI_Wyll_WyllLeavesTeam_RavengardLetterWyllAlive

/

UUID

0c07c8d3-3b26-44ad-bd04-22d85e6b936a

):

My friend, my confidante, my rescuer:

None of us lives a life without regret, and mine is no exception. I thought I'd lost my son to a devil - but it was my own hubris that drove him away. And then, a miracle: you brought him back to me. And for that, you have my eternal thanks.

It's with a heavy heart, then, that I bid you farewell. Wyll has chosen a new path, and I mean to follow. What our futures hold, I can't say - the Absolute's parasites are still lodged in our heads, after all. But I will approach my destiny with my son at my side.

Regards,

Ulder Ravengard, Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate

If Wyll was killed (

UID

S_ORI_Wyll_WyllLeavesTeam_RavengardLetterWyllDead

/

UUID

365521bd-e2bd-4eea-b19a-9d599e0e855d

):

Greetings.

What a cruelty, that I be reunited with my only son, only for him to be slaughtered. Have my sins against Wyll been so horrid that I must lose him just as I celebrated the man he'd become? Is this the fate I sealed seven long years ago when I cast him away?

It wasn't so long ago that I suffered the heat of the Hells and the wrath of ⁠The Horned King. But I have never known pain like this, the anguish of the black void appearing where my heart once beat.

I'm leaving. If the parasite takes me, so be it. Better to be a mind flayer than a mere shadow in duke's clothing.

Ulder Ravengard, Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate

Notes

• The title "The Horned King" is only used in combination with ⁠Baphomet in D&D sources, and he is not an inhabitant of the ⁠Hells but the ⁠Abyss. However he made an appeareance in ⁠Descent into Avernus, in which the city of ⁠Elturel with all of its inhabitants and Duke Ravengard where dragged temporarily into the hells.