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The Tourmaline Depths

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The Tourmaline Depths is a common Book.

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

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The Tourmaline Depths, by Lady Incognita


It was master vampire Donnela Szarr who reopened the vast blue-green halls beneath Baldur's Gate and brought them under our control, but what is the history of this subterranean expanse, and how far back does it go? Not even Donnella the Architect knew for certain, but in her notebooks she speculated that the Depths were originally dwarven-built by exiles from Bhaerynden, though she admitted she was no scholar of dwarven history. 'Thought deeply delved, the halls were certainly more of an outpost than a city,' Donnela wrote, 'though if it was established as a facility over a mine - what were the dwarves mining here?'


A larger question in this writer's mind is, how did these abandoned depths go undiscovered for so long under a great city like Baldur's Gate? Were they deliberately hidden by some kind of persistent glamour that finally wore off? We may never know.

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  • Donnela Szarr is one of the predecessors of Cazador Szarr, who can be encountered in-game. Other books relating to the Szarr family also reference this.
  • Bhaerynden is an ancient location in the underdark, but not possible to visit. The dwarven exodus being referenced by the author of this book occurred thousands of years prior to the events of Baldur's Gate 3.