tome of the unicorn?

[Eoin Lynne]

Does it exsist in this game?



...I want it o.o

[wendigo211]

Yes, I think there's one in the sameplace you get the tome of intelligence (top floor, mage tower, Baldur's Gate north).

[voehringer_nitron]

There is a book called History of the Unicorn Run, it's the one wendigo mentioned. A bard living in a house near the Ducal Palace wants a copy, but aside from that, it's fairly insignificant, as are most books.

[Eoin Lynne]

Originally posted by voehringer_nitron:

There is a book called History of the Unicorn Run, it's the one wendigo mentioned. A bard living in a house near the Ducal Palace wants a copy, but aside from that, it's fairly insignificant, as are most books.

Me thinks you know not of what you speak. Not the history of the unicorn run. The Tome of the Unicorn.
"The Tome of the Unicorn has 23 spells, one to a page: charm person, darkness 15’ radius, ESP, scare, dispel magic, charm monster, fear, fire trap, polymorph other, wizard eye, animate dead, death spell, duo-dimension, phase door, statue, clone, glassteel, permanency, power word, blind, trap the soul, gate, imprisonment, power word, kill."
" Every time one of these pages is perused, there is a 7% noncumulative chance that the reader will suffer imprisonment as per the spell. "
"The back cover houses an extradimensional space in which the demilich resides. Each time the book is opened there is a 9% chance that the lich is summoned and attacks the user. If someone concentrates on the back cover the chance for summoning it is 100%."

[voehringer_nitron]

Such an item is not in the game, nor are many of those spells.

[Eoin Lynne]

Originally posted by voehringer_nitron:

Such an item is not in the game, nor are many of those spells.

why do they reference it in "History of Calimshan" then?

[Gustuv Wynd]

Originally posted by Eoin Lynne:

Originally posted by voehringer_nitron:

Such an item is not in the game, nor are many of those spells.

why do they reference it in "History of Calimshan" then?

The books are in there just for fun...and pull from a lot of Forgotten Realms lore. Pretty much everything you read in a book in Baldur's Gate doesn't reference something actually in the game.

[dbennett88]

there is an item in BG2 though that gives you unlimited uses of spells per page, but once you turn the page it can never be undone, likewise for finishing the tome!

[stilla.ragg]

any of u guys play multi player?
add me as a friend and see my characters

[voehringer_nitron]

Originally posted by vagrantstorm:

Originally posted by Eoin Lynne:

why do they reference it in "History of Calimshan" then?

The books are in there just for fun...and pull from a lot of Forgotten Realms lore. Pretty much everything you read in a book in Baldur's Gate doesn't reference something actually in the game.

Yeah, like I said, most books are just there for the sake of being there. They add a little flavor and give you some lore, but not much else. There's books that mention nations and cities you can't visit. People that have been dead for centuries. Wars fought long ago.