Book 8: Chapter 80: Baldur’s Gate
Looking at the magnificent city walls, Qin Lun slightly narrowed his eyes and raised his palm to block the scorching sun overhead.
The walls were entirely made of huge piled stones. The city gate in the middle was five meters wide and about eight meters high. On both sides, there were towering arrow towers guarding the gate like sentinels. Patrolling warriors could be seen everywhere on the high walls.
In front of the gate, there was a stone arch bridge connecting it. The bridge spanned the moat where the Sword Sea flowed into this inland area, reaching far to the city’s port district. At the very front, there was a huge lighthouse built on black reefs, facing the sea.
This fortress gate in front of Qin Lun was the most famous Baldur’s Gate on the Faerûn continent. After leaving the Tower of Durlag, their streak of misfortune seemed to finally come to an end. Although they still encountered some low-level undead along the way, they did not face any dangers they couldn’t handle. Four days ago, they successfully arrived at Baldur’s Gate.
Baldur’s Gate was named after the legendary navigator and pirate—Balduran. He often adventured across the Sword Sea and built a tall tower by the sea in his name to guide ships home.
Because of pirates like Balduran, this Sword Sea port, originally a small fishing village, gradually prospered and attracted many merchants and inland farmers to settle there.
Later, the merchants and the coast patrol formed by farmers built walls to protect their goods from external dangers. However, they deliberately left the port area, where the pirates were active, outside the walls and charged the pirates and merchant sailors a fee to enter the city.
The captains were angry about their selfish behavior and refused to pay the entry fee. At the time the walls were being built, Balduran was out at sea and didn’t know about this. When he returned and found that the pirates were locked outside the walls, unable to withstand attacks from orcs and barbarians, Balduran was furious.
In his rage, Balduran led the captains to kill all those selfish and arrogant merchants and farmer captains, and dissolved the council formed by these wealthy farmers. At that time, only four members of the entire council survived because they had not supported the council’s decision.