47. Middle Sector of Baldur's Gate

• Nadine, residing in one of the homes in the eastern portion of this sector, will ask you to give a talisman to her son Euric. The talisman is an amulet of protection +1. Her son is in the southeast sector of Baldur's Gate, in a pub in the southeast portion of that sector. Return to Nadine for some additional experience points and a necklace of missiles. A bug in the initial, unpatched, version of Baldur's Gate allowed you to get an infinite number of experience points and reputation points from Nadine by continuing to talk to her over and over again.
  

  Map of the middle sector of Baldur's Gate. Once Lothander's quest is initiated (in the middle of the map), don't delay solving it.

• In containers on the street or in the houses in this sector you can find the following items: dagger +1, potion of defense, potion of heroism, burning hands, clairvoyance, friends, identify, invisibility, nondetection, and web mage scrolls and protection scrolls.
  

• Lothander, partner of the assassin Marek, will approach you near the gambling tents. He will tell you that Marek has poisoned you, and that if you don't release Lothander from his Geas, he won't tell you where the antidote to the poison is located, and you'll die after ten days. The diviner in the tent will tell you to see the High Priestess Jalantha Mistmyr of Umberlee to remove Lothander's Geas; that Rieltar Costak is the leader of the Iron Throne; that making money is the Iron Throne's agenda; and that Entar Silvershield is the wealthiest man in the city and he keeps his treasure hoard in his bedroom in his estate. Go to Jalantha Mistmyr at the Water Queen's house to seek a cure for the Geas, and after humbly asking for help you should go to the Lady's house and ask for a book of wisdom, pleading that you need the book for a matter of life and death. Return to Jalantha Mistmyr and then go to Lothander (who will be at the Blade and Stars if you talk to them after the diviner's conversation). Lothander will give you one half of the cure, while Marek, waiting in the Blushing Mermaid, will give you the other half. Marek is equipped with a dagger +2: Heart of the Golem; a special antidote potion, and an eagle bow: Protector of the Dryads.
  

• There's a group of rabid chickens running rampant in the Poultry Store in the northwest portion of this sector. In the north portion of this sector there's Oberan's mansion, which you'll get a quest to infiltrate if you join the Thieves' Guild. In the house you can also find scrolls of web, nondetection, and identify.
  

• Lady Hannah will approach you near the bridge to the inner city, informing you that Ragefast the mage has enslaved a nymph within his quarters, in the northwest corner of the city.
  

• In chapter seven, the diviner in the tent will answer a couple of new questions, one of which will inform you that Eltan's caretaker is the cause of his sickness, and confirm that Sarevok blamed you for the murders of the Iron Throne leaders in Candlekeep.