The Tourmaline Depths
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.