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Baldur's Gate Game Guide

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43. Southeast Sector of Baldur's Gate

  • Nemphre, in the northeast corner of this sector, will ask you to get an amulet from Arkion. There's a cloak of protection +1 in a bookshelf in Nemphre's house.

  • In the shop southeast of Nemphre's house, you can get potions of firebreath and healing from the shelves. You can buy potions of fire resistance, hill giant strength, healing, invisibility, oil of fiery burning, elixir of health, absorption, agility, antidote, cold resistance, cursed oil of speed, defense, cursed healing, infravision, insulation, cursed antidote, magic protection, magic shielding, master thievery, regeneration, insight, freedom, and stone form. You can also buy the same items in the southeast corner of this sector at "Well Adjusted Al's."

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    Map of sector 43, SE Baldur's Gate. One of the thieves' guild's quests will take you here.

  • In a house in the middle of the sector, Taxek (37 hp, level seven thief) and Michael (35 hp, level six) are burglarizing a house when you walk in on them. If you bully them into giving you everything they took, they'll give you 75 gold and leave. Alternatively, you could tell them that you were thieves like them, and tell them the password (Fafhrd), they'll just let you in without incident. Taxek and Michael are equipped with a light crossbow +1 and bolts of lightning. In the warehouse in the southeast corner of the sector you can obtain a blur scroll from a desk.

  • You can find Sanadal Gwist in the upper floor of the inn in the southeast corner of the sector, wondering where her "pure of heart" boys, Carbos and Shank (the two hapless Candlekeep assassins from the prelude), are. In the houses in this sector there are the following items: potion of insight and potion of healing.

  • Gantolandan is asleep in one of the houses in the west of this sector; he's carrying a long sword +1 that you can pickpocket off of him or fight him for it (1,200 xp will be yours for slaying him). There's a rogue stone in the drawer near his bed, and an arrow trap guarding the drawer. Gantolandan is a target victim of the Thieves' Guild, so you may want to initialize that quest prior to taking advantage of Gantolandan's slumbering.

  • In the Blade and Stars Inn, you'll meet G'axir the Seer, who will ask you to bring a shene gem from the lair of the basilisk to him. Shaella on the first level will also purport to give you a quest, provided that you answer all of her questions in an "unknowing" manner, and don't give her a straight answer. Maple Willow Aspen, on the second floor, will explode if you ask her about trees.


NPCs in this sector: Elkart, Euric, G'axir the Seer, Gantolandan, Maple Willow Aspen, Michael, Nandarin, Nemphre, Nikolai, Reginald "Longtooth" Worthington, Sanadal Gwist, Shaella, and Taxek. Chapter seven: Alan Blackblade

Enemies in this sector: Taxek and Michael

Magic items in this sector: Light crossbow +1, bolts of lightning, cloak of protection +1, long sword +1, potions of firebreath, fire resistance, hill giant strength, healing, invisibility, oil of fiery burning, elixir of health, absorption, agility, antidote, cold resistance, cursed oil of speed, defense, healing, cursed healing, infravision, insulation, cursed antidote, magic protection, magic shielding, master thievery, regeneration, insight, freedom, stone form, and blur scroll

Quest Giver and Location

Goal of Quest

Solution Location

Solution Explanation

Reward

Nemphre (building in the northeast corner)

Get an amulet from Arkion

Arkion is in a house in the east, middle sector (42) of Baldur's Gate, south of Elfsong

Arkion is wearing the amulet, so you'll have to pickpocket it off of him or take it off his cold, dead body

1,000 xp and a vampiric touch scroll

G'axir the Seer (Blades and Stars)

Get a sphene gem from the lair of the basilisk

The lair is in the Harbor sector of Baldur's Gate (middle south), but you can also get a sphene gem from the thieves, Taxek and Michael, whom you can catch robbing a house nearby

If you go for the thieves, the house being robbed is in the block southeast of the Blade and Stars, in the middle of this sector. Confront the thieves to initiate a fight and take them out quickly to avoid their powerful missile attack. A charm or hold person spell works well to immobilize one of the thieves while you quickly chop the other to pieces. If you attack the basilisk, use animated dead or summoned monsters to lead the attack, or a character who has used a potion of mirrored eyes or a protection from petrification spell

1,000 xp

Nandarin (warehouse in southeast corner)

Stop the escaped basilisk

The basilisk is on a tear in a warehouse in the south, middle sector (44) of Baldur's Gate

The creature is a greater basilisk, so make sure that your lead character has either taken a potion of mirrored eyes or is otherwise protected from petrification. Using animated undead or summon creatures as a distraction also works well, while your party attacks with missile weapons

1,800 gold and 1,300 xp

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