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49. North, Middle Sector of Baldur's Gate

At the Temple of Helm you can purchase the following items: potion of healing, antidote, stone to flesh scroll, and elixir of health.

Petrine will ask you to retrieve her cat's ring, which is upstairs in her uncle Bheron's house. Petrine is standing right in front of Bheron's house. Also inside the house are the following items: oil of speed (cursed) and bullets +1. There's a potion of invisibility inside Rinnie's house, and she'll give you a quest to find a book on the Unicorn Run.

Map of sector 49. Ramazith's tower to the north is the tallest building in Baldur's Gate. You won't be able to get into the Duchal Palace until Chapter Seven.

Ramazith (21 hp, level nine mage) will hire you to steal the nymph from Ragefast. If you return Abela the nymph to Ramazith, you won't get a reward, but by subsequently freeing her you'll get some nymph hair (take it to Sorcerous Sundries) and 2,000 xp (and 4,000 more for taking down Ramazith). Inside Ramazith's house are mustard jellies, hobgoblin elites, ghasts, and kobold commandos. At the top of the tower is a book on the Unicorn Run, which you can give to Rinnie to solve her quest, as well as the following items: elixir of health, wand of paralyzation, protection scrolls, mage scrolls of blindness, blur, invisibility, and mirror image and a tome of clear thought. Ramazith is equipped with an amulet of metaspell influence, a ring of protection +2: The Guard's Ring, and a knave's robe.

Drelik (39 hp, level nine), a mage servant in one of the houses in the northern portion of this sector, will attack you if you enter his locked house. He carries a scroll of dire charm and a short sword +1. Jardak (85 hp, level eleven), who is waiting on the second floor, is carrying a potion of frost giant strength, long sword +1, potion of genius, and a helm of glory. There are potions of stone form, heroism, and explosions, and a small shield +1 is in the houses next door.

The Skull of Kereph is in the northwest corner of the second floor of The Three Kegs. A noblewoman on the third floor of the Inn has a large stash of gems, and she will offer you a quest to silence Cyrdemac (46 hp, level six fighter/thief), who frequents the Elfsong Tavern

You won't be able to get into the Palace until chapter seven. In that chapter, Sorrel, a Flaming Fist enforcer, will not turn you in to Angelo, the new Flaming Fist leader. Instead, he'll tell you a bit about what has happened in Baldur's Gate since you went to Candlekeep.

NPCs in this sector: Bellamy, Bheron, Drelik, Ithtyl, Jardak, Petrine, Ramazith, Rinnie, Rodnim, Shep, Tartusse, and Tick; chapter seven: Belt, Bill, Liia Jannath, Nila, Sarevok, Sorrel, Winski, and Perorate

Enemies in this sector: Mustard jellies, hobgoblin elites, ghasts, kobold commandos, and potentially Ramazith

Magic items in this sector: Bullets +1, short sword +1, long sword +1, knave's robe, small shield +1, amulet of metaspell influence, helm of glory, wand of paralyzation, ring of protection +2: The Guard's Ring, tome of clear thought, oil of speed (cursed), potions of frost giant strength, genius, healing, invisibility, antidote, elixir of health, stone to flesh, stone form, heroism, and explosions, protection scrolls, mage scrolls of blindness, blur, dire charm, invisibility, and mirror image

Quest Giver and Location

Goal of Quest

Solution Location

Solution Explanation

Reward

Petrine (west of Duchal Palace)

Retrieve her cat's ring from her uncle Bheren's house

Bheren's house is just north of Petrine

The ring is upstairs, in a dresser near the cat in the main room. Take the ring and return it to Petrine

500 xp

Rinnie (west of the Duchal Palace)

Get her a book on the Unicorn Run

There's one in the top of Ramazith's building in this sector

Straight-forward fetch and return. There are several other valuable items in Ramazith's tower, and several creatures you can either fight or just ignore

900 xp, and protection from poison scroll

Ramazith (north of the Duchal Palace)

Get the nymph from Ragefast and return her to Ramazith

Ragefast's house in the west, center section of Baldur's Gate

Ragefast will make it very clear that Ramazith's motives are malevolent, but if you're still determined to capture the nymph, you'll have to take out Ragefast, which you can easily do with a flurry of missile weapons. Return to Ramazith and you'll get another chance to change your mind

None, if you help Ramazith, but if you free Abela (with or without fighting Ragefast), you'll get 2,000 xp and nymph hair

Noblewoman (third floor of The Three Kegs)

Get Cyrdemac to stop blackmailing her

Cyrdemac is staying in the Elfsong Inn in the east, middle sector of Baldur's Gate

Confront Cyrdemac and he'll initiate a fight. He's not particularly skilled, and neither are his ruffian associates, who may join in the battle. Swing and chop

500 gold from the noblewoman, with the opportunity to blackmail her on a regular basis for the same sum