#finn voice: why does everyone want to go back to baldur's gate?!

[int9]

You can find anything in the city.

Ilfirine’s physical condition has been worsening with each passing year as the shadow magic decays more of her body, and the treatments she’s tried in Waterdeep haven’t proven successful. With her friends moving on and her treasure hunting income source gone dry, she decides to seek help elsewhere. She’d heard of someone in Baldur’s Gate who might know about her esoteric condition, and though it would be folly to put too much faith on a rumor... she was desperate.

She meets up with an old acquaintance, the quirky back alley doctor who restored her vision years prior and left her with an unfortunate scar. He talks of moving to Baldur’s Gate after being driven out of practice by Waterdeep’s strict guilds, and Ilfirine asks to join him. She’d be returning to a place she hadn’t lived in since she was a teen. 

Ilfirine struggles to find the person she’s looking for, wondering if the rumor had any truth to it at all. She brings her case to a number of wizards and healers in the city and is met with confusion, fear, pity, and disgust. One of the more sympathetic scholars informs her that whatever dark energy that shadow gate had imbued into her is part of her now, that there’s no getting rid of it without getting rid of her.

She scoffs at his attempts at consolation, unwilling to resign herself to an early death. In the coming weeks she continues her search for a healer, until one day, it is interrupted by a strange looking ship flying overhead and an abduction that would throw a wrench into her plans for the foreseeable future.