The Dueling Families of Trademeet is a side quest during the Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn campaign.
Acquisition[]
The quest starts automatically during the reward ceremony after completing Animal trouble in Trademeet and Dealing with the Trademeet genies. After the ceremony, both Lord Skarmaen Alibakkar and Lady Lilith Lurraxol will ask you to meet them later, in their respective estates, to perform a task for them.
Walkthrough[]
Skarmaen and Lilith want the Mantle of Waukeen from the tomb to prove that their family was the founding family of Trademeet.
Speak to one or both of them in their homes (Alibakkar Estate and/or Lurraxol Estate ). Pick a side and then agree to retrieve the mantle in order to receive the Trademeet Tomb Key, without which, the crypt is inaccessible.
When you open the door to the tomb, High Merchant Logan Coprith will appear and ask you to give the mantle to him to avoid bloodshed between the two families.
Enter the tomb, defeat the skeletons there, and take it from the remains of one of the Skeleton Warriors.
Giving the mantle to Logan[]
Bring the mantle to Coprith at the Mayor's House. The feud may be ended, or it will be stalled for now. The party will split 8,000 XP and gains 250 
, and 1 point of reputation.
Note that afterwards you can only kill the head of the family you accepted the quest from, and their own guards simply disappear if you do. The head of the opposing family simply disappears from game after giving the Mantle to Logan, leaving only their guards, who can now be slaughtered with no negative consequences. They yield 175 XP each and have some minor loot.
Giving the mantle to one of the feuding families[]
If you give the mantle to either Skarmaen or Lilith, the other family will appear and they will both attack you for it. You end up killing both families one way or another. The rewards are all the items in the house and the experience earned during the battle - a total of 7,050 XP and minor treasure, plus Elven Chain Mail. This has little consequence for you, except missing Logan's reward. Logan mourns the loss of two important families who couldn't accept they were both descended from the founders of the city.
Preemptively solving the feud through murder[]
There is also a way to make one of the two feuding families both triumph over the other and survive the quest: murdering the head of their families before officially picking a side (Lord Alibakkar will still drop the Elven Chain Mail and Lady Lurraxol will still have no fixed drops). This is a legitimate way to complete the quest, as the game will even acknowledge it, with the surviving family head rewarding you with 2,000 (double the amount promised, but never delivered, in other routes) after explaining that the job of finding the mantle is no longer needed. If talked to aftewards, Colprith simply states that he won't arrest you, despite condemning the murder you commited.
Notes[]
If you visit the inn in Trademeet, a Lurraxol Guard and an Alibakkar Guard will have a fight to the death. After one or both of them are killed, a Militia Wizard will enter the inn and warn everyone to stop fighting [1]. You can kill both guards without reputation loss.
Mod content[]
This section is about unofficial content that is only available via fan-made mods.
The Azengaard mod provides a component that adds more tactical difficulties to the tomb encounter. See the link for further information.
Mod gallery[]
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References
- ↑ AR2010.BCS