The Watch and the Steel Watch

The Watch and the Steel Watch describes the security in the Lower and Upper Cities of Baldur's Gate.

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

Properties

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

Where to find

• Basilisk Gate Barracks X: 156 Y: -6
• Baldur's Mouth X: 40 Y: -44

Text

Famously - or perhaps notoriously - the mercenary force known as The Flaming Fist handles Baldur's Gate's law enforcement duties in the Lower City and Outer City, including Wyrm's Crossing. But what about the exclusive Upper City, home to the wealthy and powerful? There, order is kept by a highly disciplined force simply called the Watch. Though derrided by the Fists as mere toy-soldier bodyguards to the city's partriars, spit-and-polish phonies who won't get their hands dirty fighting real crime, the truth is quite different - as you'll find in short order if you break the law in the Upper City. The Watch are well-trained and authorised to use lethal force if patriars are threatened.

Which brings us to the Steel Watch, those new clanking automatons that share their name with the guardians of the Upper City but to date have only been deployed in support of the Flaming Fist. Their creator, Lord Gortash, has stated that his watchers are intended to help protect all of Baldur's Gate - but it seems the Marshal of the Watch Citadel is sceptical and waiting for proof before admitting them to a role in the Upper City.