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鲁特琴师卡利拉 -

作为一名才华横溢、谨慎小心的音乐家，你已被推荐到扎尔宅邸，我们很需要你的这两种素质。宅邸十天后会在宴会厅举办一场晚宴，你已受聘成为第一晚的演奏者。注意着装一定要内敛而不招摇。

- 管家都弗雷

另：做好按要求演奏的准备。

Lutenist Callira-

You have been recommended to the Szarr Mansion as a musician of both talent and discretion, and we have need of both. Consider yourself hired to play at a fête in the mansion ballroom on the first evening of the next tenday. Dress is reserved rather than ostentatious.

- Chamberlain Dufay

P.S.: Be prepared to play requests.

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达利瑞亚的私人日记

在我被卡扎多尔·扎尔变成他的吸血鬼衍体奴隶之前，我曾是个医生，博德之门议会的全科医生。

但我是个医生，吸血鬼衍体与否，我都拒不接受这卑微的地位。

其他人说被变成吸血鬼是种诅咒，但我的专业判断告诉我这是种病症，并且可以治疗。

我认为只要一次进食大量的鲜活血肉，也许可以过载这种吸血病，让我的身体得到治愈。目前有一个可能的血源：维多利亚，利昂·奥诺弗里奥尚未转化的纯血女儿。

利昂在变成吸血鬼奴仆之前是个术士，他警告我们不要对维多利亚出手，因为他为了以防万一，已经对她施加了反诅咒 - 让她变成了某种意义上的死灵诡雷。

我觉得他这是在诈我们。

Dalyria's Private Diary

Before I was Dalyria, vampire spawn slave to Cazador Szarr, I was Doctor Dalyria, Physician General to the Parliament of Baldur's Gate.

Spawn or no, I'm still Doctor Dalyria, and I will not submit to this lowly status.

The others say vampirism is a curse, but in my educated opinion, it's a disease, and therefore must be vulnerable to medical treatment.

I believe a massive infusion of fresh, youthful blood may overwhelm the vampirism infection and enable my body to heal. There is one potential source of such blood here: Victoria, the as-yet pureblooded daughter of Leon Onufrio.

Leon was a sorcerer before he was a vampiric slave, and has warned us not to prey upon Victoria as he has imbued her with a counter-curse in the event of attack - made her a necrotic booby-trap, as it were.

I think Leon is bluffing.

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似乎我的狩猎将以苦果告终。阿斯代伦的残躯已被找到，被抛尸旷野，远离博德之门。我不知道他遭遇了怎样的折磨，但一定罪有应得。

他的尸身将被加急运至此地。等到来之后，我一定会把他的灵魂拽回他残破的身体，让他归位，让仪式得以开始。


***
It seems my hunt has born fetid fruit. What remains of Astarion has been found, discarded far from the city. I know not what sorry fate befell him, but he surely brought it on himself.

His cadaver is being returned here with haste. And when it arrives, I will drag whatever is left of his soul back into that putrid receptacle so he can finally take his place and the rite can begin.

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达利瑞亚和佩特拉斯狩猎归来，急切的向我报告他们在飞龙关见到了他。故事虽然离奇，但他们言之凿凿。
阿斯代伦居然站在光天化日之下？还主动忤逆着我？实在难以置信。

看来阿斯代伦已经不再只是个麻烦 - 这家伙翅膀硬了。不过他会屈服的。
他会回到家里，回到位置上，完成他的任务。


***
Dalyria and Petras returned from today's hunt, rushing to report that they had seen him in Wyrm's Crossing. Their tale was fanciful, but they believe it to be true.
Astarion, standing in the sun's light? Willing and able to disobey me? Inconceivable.

It seems he has become more than troublesome - he is now a liability. But he will be brought to heel.
He will come home, take his place with the others, and complete his purpose.

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我们在城外的古尔人营地里发现了那臭小子的行踪。他们是怎么找到他的我不关心。唯一重要的是他回来了，现在万事俱备。

那些怪物猎人自然不会欢迎我拿回自己的财产，但他们很快被消灭殆尽。阿斯代伦的兄弟姐妹们今晚尤为嗜血。几乎让我有些自豪。


***
Finally! The boy was spotted, sulking in a Gur camp on the outskirts of the city. How or where they dug him up, I care not. All that matters is he has returned and all is being made ready.

The monster hunters objected to me reclaiming my property, of course, but they were swiftly dealt with. Astarion's brothers and sisters were especially vicious tonight. It almost makes one proud.

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我的衍体让我失望了。阿斯代伦从我身边逃走了。我一定会得到应有的一切。



My spawns fail me. Astarion eludes me. I WILL HAVE MY DUE.

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阿斯代伦终于回家了。
我听说他有些反抗，不过不要紧。他现在在戈迪手里，为仪式做着最终准备。

仔细想想真是感慨，几个世纪时间弹指一挥间，这个时刻终于到了。此时落笔的我受饥饿与黑暗锁缚，但当我再次提起笔时，将改头换面，涅槃重生。


***
At last, Astarion has come home.
I am told there was some resistance, but it was overcome. The boy is with Godey now, making the final preparations for the rite.

How strange to think that after all these years - these centuries - the moment is finally here. I lay this quill down chained by hunger and darkness, but will pick it up a man reborn.

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[卷轴里记载着一系列残忍的典仪，详细解释了如何利用死亡（或仅仅是让杀人更有趣）。

完美杀戮仪式，亡者礼拜，诅咒圣礼，一个仪式比一个可怕阴森。但最后一则却有些熟悉。]

亵渎飞升仪式

亡者可怜，亡者贪婪！
身负不朽恩赐，却被黑暗囚禁，被饥饿折磨。

亵渎飞升仪式将给你救赎。让你行走于日光之下。不为饥渴煎熬。给与你超乎想象的力量。

与狱火之王签订契约。向他献上七千个灵魂，每一个都要带着炼狱的烙印，你就将挣脱锁链，得知何为真正的力量。

献上灵魂。
念出咒语。
Ecce dominus,
Has animas offero in sacrificio,
Nunc volo potestatem quam pollicitus es mihi.


[Unfurling the scroll reveals a list of foul rites and rituals, detailing all the ways death can be turned to one's advantage (or simply made more interesting).

The Rite of Perfect Slaughter, the Liturgy of the Dead, the Sacrament of the Damned, and many more strange, accursed rituals cover the parchment. The final entry, however, is familiar.]

The Rite of Profane Ascension

Oh, piteous dead! Oh, ravenous dead!
Immortality is your gift, but darkness is your prison and hunger its gaoler.

The Rite of Profane Ascension will release you. Walk in the sun. Suffer not from hunger. Grow your power beyond anything you imagined.

A pact has been made with the Lord of Hellfire. Deliver unto him seven thousand souls, each bearing an Infernal mark, and you shall be free of your chains. You shall know true power.

Deliver the souls.
Speak the words.
Ecce dominus,
Has animas offero in sacrificio,
Nunc volo potestatem quam pollicitus es mihi.

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莫瑞尔·阿尔卡姆

如你所说，你对自己城市里吸血鬼结社的扩张颇为自豪。诚然，阿斯卡特拉比之鱼龙混杂的博德之门更加纯粹，来自敌对势力和执法部门压力也更小。尽管如此，也请接受我对你功绩的赞许。

好好享受你的短暂成功吧，因为要不了多久那就会被我在博德之门的伟业超越。

我已屈居为一座主城的吸血鬼王太久，而历经数百年谋划，盘龙终达飞升之时！

但此事就我就说到这里，阿尔卡姆家的小子。毕竟，可不能提前把惊喜全暴露了！

- 卡扎多尔·扎尔

Mrel Alkam

I suppose, as you say, that you have reason to be proud of the expansion of the vampire circle in your city. Of course, Athkatla is more homogenous than Baldur's Gate and you face fewer challenges from other factions and law enforcement, but still, accept my kudos on your progress there.

Enjoy your success while you can, Alkam, for I'm afraid that very soon it will be surpassed by my situation in Baldur's Gate, definitively so.

I am on the verge of a long-planned transformation that entirely changes the rules of the game. Too long have I been content to be merely a major's city's vampire lord when I can be so, so much more. And I shall.

But that's all I'll say about the matter at present, young Alkam. After all, we mustn't give away the surprise entirely!

- Cazador Szarr

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[这篇日志记录了卡扎多尔对博得之门权力结构的思考与关注，包含不同派系之间变换的权力平衡以及它如何影响自己在城市运作的能力，同时还不能干预或是竞争。

最近的注释涉及到九指和公会的老问题，以及年轻的野心家戈塔什大人带来的新担忧。

卡扎多尔对公会的担忧围绕着一个名为"石头人"的新犯罪头目的崛起展开，以及九指被取代对于博德之门地下世界的意义。

与此同时，野心家戈塔什派出了他的钢铁卫士原型机驻守城市街道 —— 他们的能力是否足以识别并伤害到卡扎多尔的吸血鬼衍体？]

[This is a journal of Cazador's thoughts and concerns about the power structure of Baldur's Gate and how the changing balance between the factions affects his own ability to operate in the city without interference or competition.

The most recent notes at the end relate to the old problem of Nine-Fingers and the Guild and new concerns about the ambitious young Lord Gortash.

Cazador's worries about the Guild revolve around the rise of the brash new criminal kingpin known as 'The Stone Man', and what it might mean for the Gate's underworld if Nine-Fingers is replaced.

Meanwhile, the upstart Gortash is fielding prototypes of his Steel Watchers in the city streets - are they capable enough to detect and damage Cazador's vampire spawn?]

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[数以千计的名字。

其中有很多人有着博德人所熟悉的姓氏，但有些列表前部的家族早已消失。这份名单上记载的名字已有数百年历史，一直延续至今。]

[Names. Thousands of them.

Many of the surnames would be familiar to a Baldurian, though some of those near the beginning of the list are of families now long disappeared. This is a list of names of people dating back centuries, but continuing right up to the present day.]

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亲爱的都弗雷，

尽管你承诺过我们死后也要在一起，你还是抛下我离开了。

或者真是如此吗？我找到了你的尸体和空瓶子 —— 我知道你喝下了一瓶药水，但它到底是毒药还是别的东西？这里还有两个一模一样的瓶子 —— 无论如何，我打算喝下其中一瓶，随你而去。我会爱你直到永远。

- 卢丽安娜

My Darling Dufay,

Despite all your promises that when we went to the afterlife we'd go together, you went without me.

Or did you? I found your body and the empty bottle - I know you took a potion, but was it poison or something else? Here are two more identical bottles - I'm going to drink one of them and then I'll join you, one way or another. I love you for eternity.

-Lurianna

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[这似乎是一本工作笔记，某个名叫都弗雷的管家使用它来为卡扎多尔宅邸宴会厅的聚会做计划。聚会被分为了两大类，受邀宾客以及非受邀宾客 —— 后者的娱乐活动要比前者邪恶很多。

最后的手写记录如下。]

主人下令举办一场特殊的聚会 —— 他说，这是一场"最后的盛宴"。它会成为我的终极测试，不过我已经做好了准备。而且我很确定，所有受邀宾客和非受邀宾客，都会兴致勃勃地参与进来。

[This seems to be the working notebook used by a certain Chamberlain Dufay to plan Cazador's gatherings in the Mansion Ballroom. Functions are divided into two categories, those for Invited Guests and those for Involuntary Guests - the entertainment for the latter category being considerably more sinister than the former.

The final handwritten entry is below.]

Master has ordered a special party - a 'final feast', he said. This will be my ultimate test, but I am prepared. And I'm sure the guests, both invited and involuntary, will be thrilled to participate.