Sunstone Gem

For the similarly named small, round stones that can be fired with a sling, see Sunstone Bullet.

Sunstones are gems in Baldur's Gate, the Siege of Dragonspear and Shadows of Amn.

More common at the Sword Coast than in Amn, they are about as often found in people's homes and pockets or lying around in public places as the lynx eye – and serve the same purpose as that stone: being sold.

“	Sunstone is a feldspar gem, closely related to moonstone and more properly known as oligoclase. Sunstone can be colorless or faintly greenish and of facet grade, but most common by far is its softer (cabochon) variety. This yields gemstones that have bright red or orange spangles (minute crystals) suspended in a nearly colorless background in a parallel fashion, giving the whole a rich golden or reddish-brown color.	”
— Sunstone Gem

Locations[]

In all games, sunstone gems can be found as random treasure.

Baldur's Gate[]

In the original Baldur's Gate, it's possible to find or steal 8 gems at fixed locations, and by picking pockets, a further 1 can be obtained.
The game's expansion adds one gem each to 2 of the new areas, which are also available in the Enhanced Edition.
In the latter, 1 additonal sunstone might be stolen or looted, depending on how Gorion's Ward solves a certain quest, and 1 is owned by a possible new companion.

Archaeological Site: carried around⁽⁵⁰⁾ by Charleston Nib ^{(AR4100 | 2865.1514)}
Baldur's Gate:
Enhanced Edition (2012)
This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. Beregost: carried by Faltis,⁽¹⁰⁾ one of the three men involved in the Silke Dilemma
Baldur's Gate:
Enhanced Edition (2012)
This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. Carried by Neera in her gem bag (×1)
The Burning Wizard, upper floor: found in the locked⁽³⁰⁾ drawer of the last room on the southern row ^{(AR3308 | 165.268)}
House directly south of The Burning Wizard, upper floor: found in the locked⁽³⁰⁾ chest, together with 38  ^{(AR3312 | 85.318)}
Beregost's southwesternmost house: found in a locked⁽⁵⁰⁾ chest, together with some other gems ^{(AR3354 | 307.206)}
Cloakwood Mines, third level: found in the locked⁽⁴⁰⁾ second chest of the three beds in the northern dormitory, together with 26  ^{(AR1802 | 1987.873)}
Baldur's Gate, east: found in a barrel on the eastern wall of the Elfsong Tavern ^{(AR0800 | 2704.2514)}
Baldur's Gate, central: found in a barrel in the Marketplace between the northern Gambling Tent and Oberan's Estate ^{(AR0700 | 3070.770)}
Nadine's Home, upper floor: found in the southernmost table ^{(AR0716 | 302.352)}
Baldur's Gate, west: found in a barrel next to the northeasternmost house ^{(AR0600 | 737.207)}
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (1999)
This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast campaign.Baldur's Gate:
Enhanced Edition (2012)
This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. Durlag's Tower, cellar: found in the first one of two barrels when entering the room to the west ^{(AR0501 | 198.411)}
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (1999)
This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast campaign.Baldur's Gate:
Enhanced Edition (2012)
This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. Isle of Balduran – Chieftain's House: found in the bag in a corner ^{(AR2002 | 467.149)}

Siege of Dragonspear[]

The Enhanced Edition's expansion has 4 extra instances of the sunstone.

Bloodbark Grove: carried around⁽¹⁰⁾, together with some other precious items, by the halfling Chalmers ^{(BD7400 | 387.1818)}
Boareskyr Bridge, Crusader Encampment: found in a barrel from a group of three behind two tents ^{(BD2000 | 2993.2621)}
Coalition Camp: found in a locked chest⁽⁶⁵⁾ near the Command Tent, together with a Potion of Extra Healing and forty throwing daggers ^{(BD3000 | 1275.1179)}
Bugbear Caverns: found in a crate in the northern cavern ^{(BD7220 | 1670.412)}

Shadows of Amn[]

There are just 3 sunstones to be found in the original Shadows of Amn at fixed locations.
The Enhanced Edition only adds further to the random treasure.

Athkatla, Temple District – Temple of Lathander (×2):
- one can be found in the locked⁽³⁴⁾ safe on the southern platform, Dawnmaster Kreel's place, which also holds the Statuette of Lathander ^{(AR0902 | 1310.1471)}
- the other is found in the shelf just to the right of that safe ^(1357.1443)
Athkatla Docks – Mae'Var's Guildhall, first floor: found on the table next to the stairs down ^{(AR0302 | 575.227)}

Notes[]

Baldur's Gate I & II Classic
This icon indicates content from all original Baldur's Gate games, extensions included. Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition – Shadows of Amn (2013)
This icon indicates content from the Shadows of Amn campaign of the Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition. As many other gems, the file for the sunstone gem, MISC18.itm, has a magical item ability attached. This, however, has no effect and is not present in the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

Lore[]

Sunstones belong to the category of ornamental stones, the least valuable stones to be found in the Realms.
The Statuette of Lathander uses, besides emeralds, sunstones as adornment.
According to the underlying Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition ruleset, sunstones originally serve as one of two material components for the spell Sunray.^[1] Material spell components, however, weren't implemented in the Baldur's Gate series.
The elves of Leuthilspar, the capital of Evermeet, use sunstones to light the Sunstone Commons, a public forum, at night.

Gallery[]

Artwork


Original Baldur's Gate I and Baldur's Gate II	Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition	Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear	Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

Inventory

Ground

Original	Enhanced

External links[]

Sunstone Gem on the Icewind Dale Wiki, a wiki for the first Icewind Dale game.
Sunstone (gem) on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.

References[]

↑ Player's Handbook

[1] Player's Handbook

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