Balduran Looks out to Sea was a statue in the Tumbledown district of Baldur's Gate.[1][2][3]
Description[]
This sculpture depicted the founder of Baldur's Gate, Balduran, looking out towards the River Chionthar to the west. The statue was located on a cliff southeast of the Cliffgate.[1][2][3] It stood twice as tall as the real Balduran.[3]
At sunrise on Hammer 1, the first day of the year, the statue flickered and shifted its posture in the blink of an eye. It might point, stand with hands on hips, or look through a spyglass, though always facing in the general direction of west, varying by 30°. It was believed that the statue pointed towards the location of Balduran, who was theorized might still be alive and living somewhere to the west.[3]
History[]
In the Year of the Narthex Murders, 1482 DR, the hand of the statue of Balduran, as well as others, was severed by Guild rogues. Some time later, bored noble youths did the same to the Beloved Ranger. The Flaming Fist conducted a thorough search of the region for the hand, particularly stores known to purchase stolen goods, such as the Calim Jewel Emporium. However, nothing turned up. Horgold Hadru, a local potter, took in the noble youths who had vandalized the Beloved Ranger, as he owed one of the patriar families.[1]
Sometime in the mid-to-late 1400s DR, a knight of Oghma attempted to travel in the direction of Balduran Looks out to Sea in an attempt to find the truth of where the statue pointed to. Soon, the knight came across a cylindrical stone structure in a wooded area a few miles to the west of Baldur's Gate. A smaller statue of Balduran stood atop the building, facing back towards Balduran Looks out to Sea, while an open doorway led to a staircase descending into the ground. But all the knight's attempts to enter the structure failed when they were blocked by an unknown magic in the form of a pattern of magical lights. Returning to Baldur's Gate, the knight assembled a group of scholars and returned to the structure. However, by the time they returned, it was no longer there. This structure was subsequently found again three more times in a similar fashion, but in different locations. However, no one was ever been able to enter. The popular theory was that this structure was the tomb of Balduran, so it was dubbed Balduran's Tomb.[3]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ed Greenwood, Matt Sernett, Steve Winter (August 20, 2013). “Murder in Baldur's Gate”. In Dawn J. Geluso ed. Murder in Baldur's Gate (Wizards of the Coast), p. 14. ISBN 0-7869-6463-4.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Dungeon Master's screen included in Ed Greenwood, Matt Sernett, Steve Winter (August 20, 2013). Murder in Baldur's Gate. Edited by Dawn J. Geluso. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-6463-4.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Adam Lee, et al. (September 2019). Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. Edited by Michele Carter, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 194–196. ISBN 978-0-7869-6687-5.