"People are born to their station here. They have commoners, to fight, and farm the land, and do the work. They have gentry, to trade, and build and do the thinking. They have nobility, to own the land and push the others around. They have royalty ... I forget why. No longer can you rise as high as your merits will take you; a man is born in his place and is expected to stay there" - Joseph Whitkeep's Heapside address New Neverwinter, the Jewel of the North, is the city where the campaign is set. It's a large, industrial city with great inequalities, and tensions which are just now boiling over.