Armbrust's Home

Subareas within Armbrust’s Home

Armbrust’s Home has no separately named child locations. Its internal layout is best understood as two functional floors:

The upper floor is important because it contains the loose plank and the dye.

Finding the entrance

From the Lower City street outside Elfsong Tavern, look for the small building squeezed between the tavern and Forge of the Nine. The entrance is underneath the balcony rather than at street level behind a large shopfront. The recorded entrance position is approximately X: 26, Y: -14.

There is no listed quest requirement for entering the house. It is accessible as an ordinary Lower City interior once the party can move through the district.

Suggested exploration route

The house is small enough that a full search takes little time. Its main rewards are narrative rather than monetary.

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Armbrust family

The normal state of the house contains three members of the Armbrust family:

Tym is the head of the household and a tailor. Documents in the home describe a once-busy trade serving a broad range of customers, from wealthy patriars to sailors needing uniforms repaired. The family’s financial position has deteriorated because too many customers have accepted work on credit and failed to pay.

Ayo’s dialogue reflects the family’s anxiety. He asks whether the party are tax collectors, suggesting that Tym’s debts have become an immediate fear inside the household. This is a small exchange, but it establishes the house as an ordinary family home under financial pressure rather than a hidden lair or quest headquarters.

Street-side NPCs

They discuss the murder of Duke Stelmane, repeating rumours that are exaggerated or unreliable. Their conversation changes if Lord Gortash has been killed, making the pair a small piece of reactive Lower City background dialogue rather than residents of the house.

Nearby visitors and associated characters

These characters should not be treated as inhabitants of Armbrust’s Home.

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Functional status

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1. Ground-floor workroom

The ground floor combines Tym’s workroom with the kitchen. Search the desks, shelves and other readable objects to find evidence of his trade and worsening finances.

The most useful document is Armbrust’s Ledger. It records customers and tailoring jobs, showing that Tym once served clients across Baldur’s Gate. Its entries have shifted from “Paid in Full” towards unpaid IOUs. This gives context to the family’s fear and explains why Ayo expects tax collectors. The ledger is listed at approximately X: 19, Y: -10.

Ground-floor literature directory

The location page identifies all four as related literature for the house. The available evidence confirms their association with Armbrust’s Home, but the sources consulted here do not provide a separate placement coordinate for every document. Do not assume that each is on the ground floor simply because the house page lists them together.

2. Upper-floor living area

The upper floor contains the family’s dormitories and living room. It also contains the bathroom area and the hidden note beneath the loose plank.

Near the upstairs window at approximately X: 16, Y: -8, a DC 15 Perception check can reveal a loose plank. Under it is a note from Nine-Fingers Keene, explaining that Tym is also in debt to the Guild. This changes the apparent scale of the family’s problems: the issue is not only private customers failing to pay, but also pressure from Baldur’s Gate’s criminal power structure.

3. Gorgeous Maroon Dye

A Gorgeous Maroon Dye is found on a shelf above the bathtub on the first floor. The source identifies this as the notable loot associated with Armbrust’s Home. It is a collectible item rather than a major equipment reward.

Fixed literature directory

No additional unique weapon, armour piece, quest item or permanent character reward is verified for the house in the sources consulted.

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The earlier choice in Rivington

At the Abandoned Windmill in Rivington, the party can encounter a starving newborn mind flayer. The party can:

The relevant branch for Armbrust’s Home is the one in which the party spares the mind flayer and provides it with a corpse. The quest source records several possible corpses, including dead refugees, Brilgor, Father Lorgan and Ffion Goldgrind.

After being fed, the mind flayer leaves the windmill after a long rest. It later appears in Armbrust’s Home in the Lower City and kills Tym, Talli and Ayo Armbrust. The family’s deaths are therefore not caused by entering the house, stealing an item or failing a local dialogue. They are the delayed result of a decision made in Rivington.

What changes inside the house

The house page describes this as the whole family being killed and the freed mind flayer floating around inside. The quest page adds that the creature can still be defeated for its brain, but the later consumption does not provide another illithid skill point.

Recommended order if you want to see both states

You cannot preserve the peaceful family state after feeding the mind flayer and allowing the relevant progression to occur. For a character who wants to inspect the family dialogue and the later consequence:

The exact timing of the return is tied to the quest’s long-rest progression, so players who want the conditional scene should not expect the mind flayer to remain at the windmill indefinitely after feeding it.

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