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[Lord-Jyssev]

what's the history on the dearnise family? who was nalia's mother, how did she die?

[NiGHTMARE]

While Arnise Keep exists in pnp, Nalia's family were invented by Bioware for BG2. As such, any information not already presented in-game would have to be fan made .

Edited by NiGHTMARE, 09 June 2005 - 02:25 PM.

[Lord-Jyssev]

well what's there about arnise keep?

[NiGHTMARE]

Whoops, it's actually Arnise Hold . From Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate 2:

Among the many small hamlets to be found across Amn's farmlands wherever trails meet, only upland moots tend to boast fortification.  Usually all that remains are crumbling ruins of baronial holds from the days when Amn was ruled by the sword, not the coin, and farmers looked to the protection of a self-styled local lord who ruled as far as his blade could reach.

Arnise Hold is the sole exception I know of in the coastal lands.  Other keeps are held by powerful families to anchor and defend their extensive farmlands, vineyards or granaries, but the Arnise family have been professional warriors for some generations.  They have kept their tiny keep in good repair, treating the local farmers who look to them very much as the olden-day "sword lords" of upland Amn did.  There's nothing of note to be found in Arnise Hall except a keep that offers an interesting lookout (though one would have to be invited to the family table to be allowed up to the battlements) and a guest-house built along the outside of the walls.

The Arnise hospitality comes with good stabling and generous feed for mounts and pack animals, though livestock aren't welcome.  But the guesthouse is, well, rather rustic. Dark inside and well worn, it's apt to be cool in summer and positively icy in fall, winter, and spinrg.

Guests are provided with thick fur coverlets and suprisingly good food - typically a good honest trencherful of stew or roast game that will fill the starving.  The usual fried "hack" (smoked fish and bacon slice) and boar dumplings (a main-stay of the slender-pursed) are here delights.  The special dishes of barley tossed with grilled mushrooms and greens, and simple bowls of diced apples, strong cheese, almonds, and greends, please and fill the belly.  I've eaten such at many small hamlets in Amn, but seldom is food so deftly prepared.  Small beer and water (parsley-flavoured or plain) are the only drinkables to be had, but there's no objection to drinking your own stronger fare.  Drunks will be relocated from the guesthouse to the "strongstallion stalls," virtual prisons built to withstand the hooves of young stallions trying to kick their way to freedom.

A stay costs a very reasonable 2 sp a head, provender included, with beer an extra copper a cup.  Stabling, with fodder and grooming, is 4 sp per animal.

[Lord-Jyssev]

sound's like a great guesthouse in the middle ages...

thanks for the info NiGHTMARE