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In those lists you can find the names of legends: Icewind Dale, Neverwinter, Water Deep, the windswept coastline of the Sea of Swords, Candlekeep. It’s no surprise, really–Faerûn is the setting for literal hundreds of stories, spread across novels, comics, video games, magazines and campaign books. How does one land hold so much adventure? Even if you’ve never rolled a d20, odds are good you’ve at least heard of the Forgotten Realms. Something about realms maybe? I have forgotten. I just wish I could remember the name of it. It is known all over the world as the safest of harbors, with the finest repair facilities for ships across Faerûn and with everything a merchant captain needs-from storehouses and marketplaces to myriad inns, festhalls, and taverns for the entertainment of the crew.Take a look at one of the most iconic settings in all of D&D. The busy harbor is protected by enormous gated sea walls above the surface and by a cadre of merfolk beneath it. Running the length of Waterdeep Harbor, this infamous lane is always crowded with strangers to the city just off the many ships that dock there. Still, there are parts of Waterdeep that can be dangerous for the unwary, and the rough-and-tumble Dock Ward is one of those parts. Waterdeep is a stable and generally peaceful city, where the rule of law is enforced by a huge and well-equipped watch further backed up by some of the most powerful personalities in the Realms. It’s home to as many as two million people, though an accurate census is all but impossible since so many come and go, visiting the open city to trade and otherwise seek fame and fortune. Waterdeep, dubbed The City of Splendors is certainly the greatest of the Sword Coast cities and perhaps the greatest city on the face of the world. And dangers abound in neighboring lands: Mount Hotenow still rumbles, undead and dark fey stalk Neverwinter Wood, and giants have been seen descending the slopes of the Sword Mountains to the south. Sections of the city lie in ruins, serving as the lair for bandits and monsters. Rivalry between power groups threatens its recovery. People have returned, great buildings have been restored to beauty, and a strong ruler reigns-Lord Neverember, a kingly man from Waterdeep.ĭespite these advances, Neverwinter faces many challenges. Nearly five decades later, Neverwinter is within sight of reclaiming its former glory. Then Mount Hotenow erupted, rocking the city’s foundations and scouring its streets with flame.

Once famous as the Jewel of the North, Neverwinter rivaled Waterdeep in splendor. It is a land of magic and intrigue, cruel violence and divine compassion, where gods have ascended and died, and millennia of warfare and conquests have shaped dozens of unique cultures.

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It’s bordered on the west by the Trackless Sea and on the east by the Endless Wastes and the Hordelands that separate it from Kara-Tur.įaerûn is an open land full of kingdoms and empires, large and small, and scattered city-states and villages struggling to make their way in a landscape that can be unforgiving wilderness one mile and cosmopolitan city the next.Ĭountless millions of humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, and other sentient beings call Faerûn home. To the south are the equatorial jungles of Chult and the tropical coasts of Halruaa. Sub-arctic extremes chill its northern reaches, where ice sheets like the Great Glacier dominate the landscape in blinding white. The continent of Faerûn is a landmass of approximately nine and a half million square miles, located mainly in the northern hemisphere of the world of Toril. Dozens of nations, hundreds of citystates, and countless tribes, villages, and settlements dot its expanse. Other lands lie in distant corners of the world, but Faerun is the center of it all, the crossroads and crux upon which all else turns. From the bitter, windswept steppes of the Endless Waste to the storm-lashed cliffs of the Sword Coast stretches a wide, wild land of shining kingdoms and primal wilderness, Faerûn is only one continent of the world known as Toril.

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