Neverwinter
Jewel of the North
The City of Skilled Hands has suffered much in the past century but is finally being rebuilt and retaking its place among the great cities of the north. Neverwinter is a multi-racial city-state sitting on the northwestern Sword Coast. Volo is known to have called it the "most cosmopolitan and the most civilized city in all of Faerûn."
Demographics
Mostly half-elves, humans, and a minority of dwarves, but also a significant amount of elves and halflings. Plus a minority of dragonborn, eladrin, tieflings, orcs and half-orcs.
Government
Lord Protector Dagult Neverember is the one running things, and by now people have mostly accepted that. He oversees infrastructure, law and order, etc. in return for taxes.
Defences
Lord Neverember relies heavily on mercenaries, especially Mintaran ones, for the army. He is of the opinion that it's easier to trust someone's loyalty to their salary than their loyalty to a city.
Infrastructure
A lot of important infrastructures was destroyed when Mount Hothenow erupted and, despite the best efforts of Neverember, a lot of things are still in dire need of repair.
History
The first settlement in the Savage Frontier was an elven city known as Illefarn. Illefarn became a bustling nation after the time of the Crown Wars. Eventually, Illefarn was divided into three nations, of which Iliyanbruen was the most prominent. Iliyanbruen was weakened by orc invasions, which paved the way for Eigersstor, the first multi-racial settlement in the area, which would later be called Neverwinter.
Neverwinter became a centre of civilization, peace and culture and was widely viewed as a marvel by visitors. This trend lasted, seemingly unbroken since its founding until 1372 DR when a disease known as the Wailing Death laid low most of the city's inhabitants. Then, in 1385 DR, the Spellplague struck.
The century that followed saw the rise in power of Netheril. Netherese loyalists infiltrated the power structure of the weakened Neverwinter, but their efforts were sidetracked by the eruption of Mount Hotenow in 1451 DR, so powerful that laid the city to waste and killed the ruling royal family.
In 1467 DR, Lord Dagult Neverember, Open Lord of Waterdeep, seeing an opportunity to add to his financial empire, hired workers to help rebuild the city and Mintarn mercenaries to protect it from monsters and bandits; claiming himself to be a descendant of Neverwinter's former rulers and thus the rightful "Lord Protector" of the city, started the New Neverwinter movement. Lord Neverember invested a great deal of his own personal fortune to rebuild the city's infrastructure, buy the interest of merchants to send their caravans again to Neverwinter, and even ensuring Neverwintan refugees had enough food and gold in hand.
Architecture
Neverwinter has been an important city for a very long time and has mostly gotten denser rather than spreading out when it has grown. As a result, a lot of the city consists of very old buildings that have been retrofitted again and again over the centuries.
Maps
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Neverwinter 1450
The city of Neverwitner
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