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Campaign Guide

to the City

Book I of the City of Splendors

by Steven Schend with Ed Greenwood

Chapter Six: Law & Order ..................................... 75-83

The City Watch ......................................................... 75

The City Guard .......................................................... 76

The Magisters & The Courts ..................................... 76

Laws of Waterdeep ..................................................... 77

Select Law Enforcement NPCs .................................. 82

Chapter Seven: Magic of Waterdeep ................... .84-101

Spells of Waterdeep .................................................... 84

Magical Items of Waterdeep ...................................... 95

Miscellaneous Magical Items ................................. 95

Artifacts & Unique Items ...................................... 97

Appendix One: Trade & Travel.......................... 102-103

Appendix Two: Skullport .................................... 104-111

Appendix Three: The Blue Alley.. .................... .112-119

Appendix Four:

Waterdeep Map Cross-Reference Keys..........120-123

Appendix Five:

City of Splendors Index (all four books) .... ...124-128

Introductions ................................................................ 2-7

Chapter One: Geography & Environs .................... .8-24

Chapter Two: History of the City .......................... 25-35

Chapter Three: The City Wards ............................ 36-55

Sight-Seeing in Waterdeep

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The City Ward Keys ................................................... 40

Chapter Four: Places of Interest & Danger..........56-66

City of the Dead ......................................................... 56

Waterdeep Harbor ...................................................... 58

City Sewers ................................................................. 59

Undermountain and the Depths Below.. .................. .63

Rat Hills ..................................................................... 65

Chapter Five: The Lords of Waterdeep ................ .67-74

The Lords History ..................................................... 67

The Lords Roster ....................................................... 68

The Lords Magic ....................................................... 72

The Lords Agents ...................................................... 73

Credits

Original Design: Ed Greenwood

Development & Editing: Steven E. Schend

Edititorial Help: Karen S. Boomgarden

Cover Art: Larry Elmore

Cartography: Eric Hotz & Dennis Kauth

Interior Art: Valerie Valusek

Typesetting: Nancy J. Kerkstra

Production: Paul Hanchette

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Introductions

ntroductions are always the first and best way to get to know people and

places. And, of course, ones introduction to Waterdeep forever colors

how one sees the City of Splendors forevermore. For me, Waterdeep and

her vistas will always be dominated by Mount Waterdeep and a fond

memory of an alighting griffon silhouetted against the reddened skies of

the setting sun.

Open Lord Piergeiron Paladinson of Waterdeep

As the man says, everyones introduction to the City of Splendors colors how they see the

magnificent (or sordid, depending on your view) metropolis of the North. As witness to this,

here are words and views and personal reflections of Waterdeep from many of those folk on

our world who have had extensive contact with it. Keep them in mind when you see the

streets of the Crown of the North for the first (or hundredth) time in this boxed set. . . .

Ed Greenwood is a man who hardly needs any introduction to any fans of the Realms, but he

gets one anyway. Ed is the original creator of the FORGOTTEN REALMS® Campaign set-

ting and his first Waterdeep supplement (FR1 Waterdeep and the North) is the source of

much of this boxed sets basic material. Eds latest additions to Realmslore include the Volos

Guides (to Waterdeep, the North, and an impending look at the Sword Coast) and the novels

Spellfire, Crown of Fire and the upcoming Elminster: Making of a Mage.

Going Home Again

Not all trails lead to Waterdeep

but all who travel often seem to

find their way there.

Samatcho Ahonu, My Travels In the Curious West

The Year of the Turret

first saw Waterdeep at night. A caravan had set outin a story I was writing about

a fat, brawling merchant named Mirtand I wanted to see where it would go.

This was a caravan of golden furs, sparkling blue ice wine, and caged unicorns, all

taken from the heart of the North, assembled in Neverwinter, and sent down a long

and perilous coastal road, past ghost-haunted ruins and marshes, to somewhere larger,

richer, and more sophisticated.

A great trading city, where half the world rubbed shoulders. A place of wealth and toler-

ance, whose thieves werent a power in the city, and whose nobles were as proud and as

devil-may-careif not as powerfulas the royals of many a fantasy world. A place whose

wealth and power rivaled imperial Rome, whose sophistication outstripped Paris, whose

color and eccentricities were a match for old London. A place where ships docked that

hailed from half a world away, bringing exotic spices, ivory, and caged beasts from lands

that were little more than legends to most of the swarming folk of the city. A place with a

great natural harbor, sheltered by one arm of a mountain, where the water was deep right

up to the shore. A place calledwell, Waterdeep.

help them deal with a sudden infestation of dragons!

It was here that someone first began killing the citys

Lords, and Piergeirons daughter wore his armor and pre-

tended to be him while Durnan, Laeral, Mirt, and his ward-

become-wife, Asper, turned the city upside down in search

of the missing Paladinson (yes, he was found, alive and

well, but thats a tale for another time). It was here that a

certain Guildmaster spent a memorable night in the sewers

with the persuasive Kitten, and emerged hopelessly in love

and willing to let the Lords do as they pleased with his

guild. It was here that various noble families started feuds

and more friendly rivalries that still continue, and that I

first found the Moon Sphere, the Blue Alley, and the Old

Xoblob Shop; Waterdhavians, by the way, use Xoblob in

the manner those of our world use the names Joe Blow or

John Doe. It was here that I found myself at home . . .

and it is here that my heart lives.

I could tell you tales to fill this box many times over, and

still have more to tellbecause Waterdeep is a living,

bustling, ever-growing place, and its stories are the tales of

peoplepeople as vividly real as we can make them.

And thats not a royal we. Once it was, very briefly,

before my players galloped madly off in all directions at

once, exploring the place where they were supposed to just

rest between delves into Undermountain. They got caught

up in its intrigues, and often abandoned dungeons entirely

for the excitement of the surface world, and then forcing

me to eventually detail the entire Realms. . . .

Then, years later, Karen Boomgarden and Jeff Grubb

shoehorned what should have been this boxed set into a

64-page sourcebook, with such dark mutterings as Thou

shalt never use so much mouse type again! Certain other

folk at TSR were awed by the size of the map Jeff had

painstakingly taped together from the mountain of photo-

copies Id sent (hey, a city is a cityand no city ever fits

neatly into any size box). Waterdeep saw print, and the

floodgates were opened.

Weve visited the city and its environs more than any

place in the Realmsand we still have only scratched the

surface, through the work of Volo (well, me), Allen Varney

(in Knight of the Living Dead), Jeff Grubb (in City System),

Elaine Cunningham (in Elfshadow and Elfsong), and Steven

Schend (in the painstaking pulling-together of Under-

mountain, Skullport and the Promenade of Eilistraee, and

now this box youre holding).

Youve seen almost nothing of the sewers yet, or the City

of the Dead, or the Blue Alley, or the doings and posturings

of the nobles, or the fashions of the city, or the Dungeon of

The caravan rolled in as the blue dusk crept swiftly along

on the heels of fading sunset, and went with it, peeringand

marveling. This is the type of place I wanted to write about!

Nay, to live in. A place with a whiff of Juvenals Satires

and an echo of Sutcliffs The Armourers House, a place

built of ghostwalks in York, strolls in Shrewsbury and the

back streets of Oxford, memories of half a hundred fantasy

novels, and of the most splendid things I could imagine.

A place I could call home.

A place that would grow in color and detail as the

FORGOTTEN REALMS® setting took shape around it,

driven by the enthusiastic adventurings of a fledgling group

of D&D® garnersparticularly one Victor Selby, in those

daysas they poked around in alleys, dusty shops, dim tav-

erns, dark sewers, and even slippery rooftops in pursuit of

adventure; a running gag of these rooftop jaunts involved

party members tumbling helplessly down the slopes of roofs

to crash through skylights and land in the middle of food-

laden tables at feasts, the beds at poorly-timed moments in

bedchambers, map-strewn tables around which conspirators

were whispering, Waterdhavian nobles duelingor

undressingand so on. It got so, somehow, they didnt

want to go up on rooftops, any more. . . .

Long before Waterdeep Nights was a phrase known to

computer gamers, it was what I called my what might hap-

pen tonight encounter sheet, as the Company of Crazed

Venturers set out on another aimless see-what-trouble-we-

can-find stroll, tavern-crawl, or stealthy missionor wild

chase!through the night-cloaked streets of Waterdeep.

It was here that the Ghost Knight was born. It was here

that a wish whose wording remains controversial to this day

snatched Company survivors from the depths of the Fire-

place Level of the Dungeon of the Crypt (which lies partly

under one of the crypts in the City of the Dead, and has

been the meeting-place of many illicit cults and shady orga-

nizations, over the years) into the bar at the Inn of the Drip-

ping Dagger, shattering it . . . and bringing along with them

certain explosive beasts, with immediate and dramatic

results. It was here that the intrepid descended the shaft in

the taprooms of the Yawning Portal for the first time, to find

the er, glories of Undermountain awaiting them.

It was on those nights that the Company crashed the

debauched parties of the nobles, in many a villa in North

Ward or Sea Warda most memorable night happened at

the house of the Roaringhorns, when two sorceresses

decided to fight a spell-duel just as the entire Flying Hunt,

from far-off Nimbral, galloped down out of the sky to ask

where they could find a certain mage named Blackstaff to

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