Plot

Expansion pack for Baldur's Gate (1998). The two new areas are the small town of Ulgoth's Beard, where you learn of the legend of Balduran, and a tough-as-nails area called Durlag's Tower, a death-trap for foolish adventurers.

Gorion's ward, the protagonist of the first Baldur's Gate game, gains access to two new areas on the game's map. The first one is a very small coastal town called Ulgoth's Beard, located on the Sword Coast, the western shore of the continent of Faerun along the Sea of Swords. There, the ward and his party learn of Balduran, the legendary seafaring explorer and founder of Baldur's Gate, who disappeared long ago on one of his seafaring adventures. A shady character asks the ward to travel to an uncharted island, where Balduran might have ended up shipwrecked and died. Any personal artifacts of his would be priceless on the market and the person that were to discover what happened to him would be hailed as a legend. However, the island ends up being in a state of emergency. The overtly friendly locals claim that beasts from the forest are attacking their small town constantly and ask for the ward's help. However, the island holds a dark secret. Ulgoth's Beard offers a few more much shorter quests, like a trip to an island ice prison maze to recover a certain belonging of the town's chief. The other new major location is Durlag's Tower, one of the toughest areas in the game. The tower has several levels and was once owned by Durlag, a proud and rich warrior dwarf, who in time grew paranoid and set multiple deadly traps all over his keep. The abandoned tower is now the favorite deathtrap of foolhardy explorers. The ward enters in either on his/her own or in search of a missing youngster from Ulgoth's Beard, who went with a party of adventurers to explore the tower's lowest level in search of treasure and hasn't been heard from since. Once there, the ward slowly pieces together the history of the tower as well as the reasons behind Durlag's eventual fall into madness and realizes that there is indeed something very wrong with the place. Maybe Durlag wasn't just the victim of his own paranoid demented mind after all. However, only the toughest of parties will get to the bottom of things and find out what's really down there on the lowest level of the keep and what exactly happened to the boy.