North Ward

Дворяне населяют Северный Округ в избытке, но народ, проживающий здесь, более миролюбивый чем в Морском Округе. Несмотря на то, что здесь есть таверны и мага¬зины на любой вкус, уклад этого района стремится к сдержанности и вежливости. Большинство улиц выст¬роены рядами домов, в которых живут семьи преуспе¬вающих дельцов, инвесторов и гражданских служащих. Они все достаточно обеспечены, чтобы нанять слугу или двух, или, возможно, они стараются выглядеть таковыми. ДЛЯ лучших впечатлений ОТ Северного Округа, при¬ходите сюда перед рассветом, купите местную газету, И устройтесь В кафе С ВИДОМ на улицу. Наблюдайте как округ потихоньку оживает вокруг вас. Сначала будет так тихо, что ВЫ сможете услышать жителя улицы, ослабляющего СВОЙ кушак для свежего воздуха и прочи¬щающего горло. Затем начинают СВОЮ утреннею рас¬певку птицы, и после ЭТОГО, ВЫ услышите и увидите, как приезжают омнибусы СО слугами. Здесь слуги не живут ПО месту своей работы у дво¬рянствросто приходят на день. БОЛЬШИНСТВО ИЗ НИХ обитают В менее богатых частях города, прибывая С ремесленными инструментами и одетые В традицион¬ные одеяния: мойщики и повара В белом, трубочисты и уборщики В черном, лакеи и няни В сером, садовники В зеленом и учителя В синем. Когда слуги расходятся стуча дверями ПО домам, и начинают СВОЮ работу, выходят жители округа, С лю¬бовью прощаясь С супругами и детьми, топая ногами ПО тротуарам или уезжая на омнибусах. В этот часовой промежуток, Северный Округ наполняется шумной жизнью, НО позже обратно стихает, пока вечером не начинается обратный процесс, когда жители возвраща¬ются С работы, и слуги уходят. Самая оживленная и, возможно, самая прекрасная часть округа — это Утёс Наблюдения. В этом месте отроги плато, на котором расположено Глубоководье, такие высокие и крутые, что по обе стороны от этого места прерываются городские стены. Резиденции са¬мых расточительных жителей, самые роскошные тавер¬ны и самые дорогие постоялые дворы Глубоководья находятся здесь. С лучших места на террасах и балконах открывается прекрасный вид на восточные сельские окрестности. Тем не менее, вы не обязаны платить их высокую цену, поскольку проложенная общественная тропа вдоль края утеса предлагает пешеходам возмож¬ность также насладиться этим видом.

Зеленый и оранжевый являются цветами Северного Округа, а их символ - нежно-белый голубь, изображен¬ный в полете. На крышах многих домов Северного Округа расположены голубятни, и большие стаи птиц, кружащие над городом на рассвете и закате, достойны восхищения. Nobles aplenty live in the North Ward, but the character of this ward is more peaceful than that of the Sea Ward. Though it has taverns and shops to suit a variety of tastes, the tenor of the area tends toward reserved and polite. Most streets are lined with row houses inhabited by the families of prosperous people of business, investing, and civic service. They are each wealthy enough to employ a servant or two, or they endeavor to appear as such. For the best experience in the North Ward, go there just before dawn, buy a broadsheet, and settle in at a café with a view of the street. Watch as the ward comes quietly to life around you. At first, it will be so silent that you’ll be able to hear the resident a street over who opens her sash for fresh air and clears her throat. Then the birdsong will begin, and shortly thereafter, you’ll hear and then see the drays arriving with servants. These aren’t the live-in staff used by noble houses, but people hired to come and work for a day. Most of them come from less affluent parts of the city, arriving with the tools of their trade and outfitted in their customary garb: launderers and cooks in white, chimney sweeps and housecleaners in black, valets and child-minders in gray, gardeners in green, and tutors in blue. As these servants spread out to knock on doors and begin their work, the residents of the ward take their exits, parting fondly with spouses and children, their footsteps tramping along the sidewalks or taking them into rattling hire-coaches. In the span of just an hour, the North Ward comes to noisy life and then settles again into quiescence, until later in the day when the process reverses itself, as residents return from work and servants leave. The liveliest, and perhaps the loveliest, part of the ward is the Cliffwatch. Here, the plateau upon which Waterdeep sits features cliffs so steep and high that the city wall is interrupted to either side of them. Some of the most lavish residences and most luxurious taverns and inns of Waterdeep stand along this space, boasting terraces and balconies that allow one to take in the beautiful sight of the countryside to the east. Yet you need not pay their high prices, for a public walkway along the cliff’s edge offers pedestrians ample opportunity to enjoy the view. The North Ward’s colors are green and orange, and its mascot is the gentle white dove, depicted in flight. Many North Ward homes have dovecotes on their roofs, and the great flocks of the birds that circle over the city at dawn and dusk are a delight to behold.

Home to the many wealthier middle class, lesser nobles, and well-to-do merchants, North Ward is a quiet haven from the hustle and bustle of Waterdeep's commercial endeavors. Dominated by residences, this ward tends toward insular, walled villas and distinctly individual stone and timber houses. While, on the surface, it seems tedious compared to the rest of the city, North Ward seethes with intrigues of far-reaching effects hidden just beneath the surface. There is little for visitors to do within this ward beyond gawk at the marvelous houses and towers, unless they are already linked into the nobles' or GUILDS' politics. The city watch keeps this ward under tight control, suffering noise and disruption only from the local nobles and dandies while rousting noisy trespassers. Though lightly armed, the watch maintains a constant presence in North Ward, making it as safe as one can be in a city of this size. If ever a place "closes down upon the cobbles at dusk," North Ward fits the bill. North Ward's western boundaries consist of the High Road with a western arm extending to Shield Street along Vondhil Street and Trader's Way. Andamaar's Street marks the southern border, while the walls of the City of the Dead and the Trollwall close out the rest of the ward.

Lifestyles

Wretched: xxx Squalid: xxx Poor: xxx Modest: xxx Comfortable: xxx Wealthy: xxx Aristocratic: xxx

Architecture

The first thing to notice here is the lack of row buildings that dominate much of Waterdeep, Herein the lowest types of buildings are two-story cottages with expensive wood and slate decorations. The more common domiciles share such details as wrought iron fences, rooftop spires, gabled roofs, and ornate carving work on statuary and wallwork alike. The walled noble villas and grand merchant houses contain gardens with elaborate adornments. In many ways, this ward seems more prosperous than Sea Ward, but the neighbors to the west are quick to remind folk that "we need not show our wealth and station in such gaudy, tactless ways, for we are above such petty oneupsmanship." Nearly all of the streets and alleys in North Ward are cobblestone-paved, testifying to the comparable youth of this area. The Dungsweepers' Guild members all prefer to work here, as the haughty, affluent inhabitants often pay well for additional streetsweeping (and "accidental" mishaps upon the stoops of rivals).

Notable Landmarks

Swordmaiden

This statue resembled a female version of The Honorable Knight walking statue. the statue's head was a shop known as Thort's Findings, located in a city square between Hassantyr's Street, Tarsar's Street, Whaelgond Way, and Ussilbran Street

Watch of Ward

North Ward Civilar: Melro Darathmrand Senior Skulk: Arondal Skulks: Senior Watch Wizard: Resarkar Tower March Watchpost: Ernoldus Crae Wavestar Court Watchpost: Halette Locast Vhezoar St. Watchpost: Svert Hostane Golden Serpent St. Watchpost: Fritha Throngmar Nindabar St. Watchpost: Galberra Knuckletom

Residences

Noble villa

Adarbrent Villa

Agundar Villa

Amcathra Villa

Anteos Villa

Brossfeather Villa

Cragsmere Villa

Crommor Villa

Durinbold Villa

Estelmer Villa

Gost Villa

Gralhund Villa

Hawkwinter Villa

Helmfast Villa

Hothemer Villa

Hunabar Villa

Ilvastarr Villa

Jardeth Villa

Kormallis Villa

Kothont Villa

Lanngolyn Villa

Lathkule Villa

Maerklos Villa

Majarra Villa

Margaster Villa

Massalan Villa

Nandar Villa

Nandartowers

Phull Villa

Phylund Villa

Piiradost Villa

Roaringhorn Villa, "High House of Roaririghorn"

Snome Villa

Stormweather Villa (nob

Sultlue Villa

Talmost Villa

Tarm Villa

Thann Villa

Thorp Villa

Thunderstaff Villa

Ulbrinter Villa

Wands Villa

Zun Villa

Private Houses

Brianne's Tower

Lock Sisters Home

Hedare Mansion

XXX Husteem's residence

XXX Thann's residence

Maerik Thaelcloak's residence

XXX Ilzimmer's residence

Irbryth Authamaun's residence

Obelos "Only" Braeril's residence

Cerest Elenithils’ Home

On Sammarin Street, Home of the late gold-elf merchant Cerest Elenithil. The elf merchant, who died in 1479 DR during an confrontation with the adventuress Icelin Tearn, is believed to have had ties to Waterdeeps underworld. The blocky stone structure sports a single tower braced against the main building and a private garden. The private garden includes a gladehouse with panteflowers, yellow orchids and varieties of roses and a fish pond under which a former servent of Cerest, who stared to long at the elfs’ disfigured face, is entombed

Mage Houses

Rental

Greenglade Tower

Firesong Villa

Business

Ragathan Furriers

Meraedos Fine Furs

Sulmest's Splendid Shoes & Boots

Shop (Shoes) (5c). A frighteningly expensive shop for footwear, but their guarantees on craftsmanship bear up as well as their fashionable boots do.

Aurora's Realms Shop, High Road Catalogue Counter

Tsathree’s Comforts

Fallen Stars Fish

Downybeard Tobacconist

Shop (Tobacco). A small, aromatic shop with a wide variety of pipeweed, tobacco and snuff. Its owner Lucilla Downybeard is descended from the original Kro Downybeard, a halfling from Luiren. She makes good coin on a made-to-order service offering wooden pipes with hand-carved crests and symbols on them.

Hriiat Fine Pastries

Irbryth Authamaun's residence

Taurntyrith Adornments

Bhephel's Bottles/Exotic Wines and Cordials

Shop (Wines & Alcohol) (5c). One of the finest spirits shops in Waterdeep, specializing in having the widest offerings from around Faerûn. Their small size belies their actual business, for many of their customers simply have them ship their purchases directly from warehouse to residences, without ever entering the shop.

Sarsantyr's Tapestries & Draperies

Tirelessly Turning Wheel/Caravan Curios From All Far Faerûn

Millomyr Harps

Obelos "Only" Braeril's residence

Bent Nail

Corondorr’s Countinghouse

School (Finances). A school that caters to young guild members and unguilded shopkeepers desiring to learn number skills and "how business is really practices" from a cynical, veteran clerk-of-coin retired from Piergeiron's Palace.

Dailantha’s Herbs and Exotic Plants

Breerdil’s Fine Wines

Shop (Wine) (4c). A fine wine shop. There is a small stream of water that runs from a water feature in the shop, out the shop to form a small stream (complete with walking bridge over it) and flows into Dailantha's.

Pages Curious

Bookshop on Suldown Street, owned by Maranyuss, called Mara, a night hag exiled to live among mortals, who maintains an illusion of beauty among the citizens of Waterdeep

Thantilvur Investments

a former wealthy citizens private mansion, recently renovated, the third building in from the High Road, on the South side of Tarnath Street, secret hideout for the traitor Masked Lord Cozandur, was destroyed durind the Open Lord's spell duel with two mages on the payroll of Braethan Cazondur

Thort’s Findings

Steam and Steel

Corellon’s Crown

Tiger’s Eye

Book Wyrm’s Treasure

Sword Coast Trader's Bank

Three Moves Ahead

Tsathree’s Comforts

Nightlife

Inns

The Raging Lion

The Galloping Minotaur

Inn (4c•3a). An inn well-favored among visiting merchants that has had to expand its operations to two other buildings and implement Waterdeep's first advance bookings system. Known as a busy place with lots of overstuffed merchants, bustling messengers, and secret passages by which the servants get around.

Silent Shield

The Cliffwatch

Inn (3c•3a). An inn of tremendous size that caters mostly to wealth merchants and their caravans, the Cliffwatch is the beating heart of its neighborhood. Though blown up in the 1370s sometime, the Spindrivver family rebuilt it taller and grander than before.

Swordshire House

Inn (4c•4a). A grand building that is best described as a cozy halfling burrow blown up to human-sized scale, the Swordshire attracts mostly out of towners as well as the occasional noble party looking for a unique venue for their celebrations. Notably, most hin-folk find it tacky and ridiculous. Even the most grumpy of them are forced to admit that there is no better curated collection of "hill wines" - as the wines made from sweet root vegetables made by halfling folk - to be found in Waterdeep. Its proprietor, Harnorr Leerthyn, is the Speaker for the Fellowship of Innkeepers.

Mrayvren's Bountiful Rest

Ilzantul Street, near Delzorin Street. Called the Bountiful by locals. Feature: the Gryphonsar room (additional from Ed): “Gryphonshar” was the name of a wealthy, successful, ethical, and much-loved Waterdhavian merchant who was a sometime sponsor, patron, and eventually business partner of Haeldrar Mrayvren. Andremon Gryphonsar died in the autumn of 1454 DR, but is remembered with fond nostalgia by many traders, and several rooms and features around Waterdeep have been named for him (all since his death).

Taverns

A Maiden's Tears

Twilight Hunters

Inn. An inn decorated with various adventuring Equipment and battle trophies, the Twilight Hunter is named for the company that own it. The tropies are actually those gathered by the company from its days of adventuring. The inn's taproom is gaining some notice for its "orangeberry wine," a sweet and fiery drink.

The Misty Beard

Tavern (4c•4p). A spectacular tavern for thrill-seekers, since the staff is made up of rare and exotic monsters all carefully controlled by the owners.

The Grinning Lion

Tavern (4c•2p). A raucous tavern favored by less adventurous young nobles who dare not visit the Dock Ward. Propriator Argupt, good food, favourite place of the Thongolirs

Poltergeist (Trollskull Manor)

Tavern (2c•2p). A tavern owned by party of adventurers, working for Force Grey

Festhalls

The Gentle Mermaid

Gambling House (4c•4p). One of the largest gambling houses in all of Faerun, and a luxurious place to see and be seen among the fabulously wealthy and powerful.

Ten Bells

On Brondar’s Way. Has female dancers.

Many Masks

Festhall (4c•4p). A bawdy environs where everyone goes masked – including when they are wearing nothing else. A grand masquerade at all times.

Tymora's Fancy

Minuet

Temples

Holyhands House

Interdenominational Temple. Formerly the villa of House Maernos, Holyhands now acts as a temple for non-human faiths, per the bequest of the last Maernos patriarch in 1372 DR. With the founding of the Seldarine temple, Holyhands now caters mostly to the dwarven, gnomish, and halfling pantheons, with a scattering of other shrines as well.

Hospice of St. Laupsenn

Charity Mission of Ilmater.

House of Dusk

Guildhalls

House of Crystal

Guild of Glass-Blowers, Glaziers & Speculum-Makers. A window-heavy building known as being a source of fine crystal balls and mirrors.

House of Healing

The Guild of Apothecaries & Physicians. This guildhall functions as an emergency hospital, potion shop and minor school for student physicians.

Fences

Although the assassin, drug, poison, and slave trades of Waterdeep are largely confined to Skullport, the City of Splendors is home to a fair share of illegal commerce. There is a large resale market for purloined goods, many of which are stolen in one ward, sold in another, and then displayed prominently by their new owners in a third. Some of the known fences and. dealers in contraband of Waterdeep are described below.

Benson Maed

gems (25-30%) Contact: Miri, dancer, festhall Minuet on Suldown Str location: Tymora's Fancy (festhall owned by Elaith)

Elendra Grain

art, gems (35%) Contact: Derollan Stillwind, продавец в Olmhazan's Jewels Castle Ward Location The Gentle Mermaid, festhall and gambling den, 3й этаж

Tagranai

books and magic items

Sages

Faram

Minor Fields: Languages of Humans/Demihumans, Planes (Outer), Fauna Cephalopods & Echinoderms Major Fields: Flora (Fungi), Theology, Religion, and Myth (Humans)

Pafaridal

Minor Fields: Insects (Fauna), Divination Major Fields: Arachnids (Fauna), Engineering & Architecture, Sociology (Elves), Theology, Religion, and Myth (Elves)

Vlorn Keenear

Knowledge (history), special-izing in the folklore, history, languages, legends, and politics of halﬂ ingkind, and the politics and history of humankind along the Sword Coast, and Knowledge (religion), specializing in the mythology of halﬂ ingkind

Usurists

Eatiel

Golden Serpent Street | North Ward An elven women of indeterminate age. Eatiel is the proprietress of a shop called "Three Moves Ahead," where she sells her finely-wrought gaming boards. It also displays her antique collection of gaming sets, as well.

Mare Diemhin

The Gentle Mermaid | North Ward A human woman of lovely countenance, flamboyant red hair and soft-rounded figure Mare works as a soft-trader at The Gentle Mermaid.

City Buildings

Guard Barracks Farwatch Tower Endcliff Tower Upper Towers

Alleys & Courts

Alleys

North Ward's alleys are by far the safest of any ward of Waterdeep. Children have been known to safely play unattended in them on bright moonlit nights. Lan¬tern guides tend to be lone men or youths and sometimes even maids, and the alleys have a reputation more as a place for drunks to snore away the night undisturbed, than places to be avoided due to danger.

Black Dog Alley

due south of Farwatch Tower, linking up with Watch Alley. It is named for the silent phantom of a black dog that is seen padding steadily along here on many nights. The hound wears a spiked hunting or war collar, stands as tall a goat, and has blazing red eyes. It looks at no one directly and simply walks through people and objects alike.

Catchthief Alley

This short, narrow passage runs north off Golden Serpent Street, along the east wall of the Helm¬fast noble family villa compound. Its name comes from its site as the downfall of the infa¬mous thief Uluryk Malogh, who was slain by a hail of poisoned arrows here many winters ago after he killed the heads of two noble houses in a tavern brawl and taunted their kin by reveal¬ing himself as an agent of the banished Thieves Guild, who had been ordered to bring about their doom. He escaped into the sewers and cellars of the city which he knew as few others do, but the Guild thought him insane and a risk to themselves, and sent agents into the city to slay him. The agents of the Guild caught him in this alley. Some folk swear they have heard the ghostly bubbling whisper of his last words, pronouncing a curse on all traitors, and lament¬ing that the poison burns so. There are persistent rumors that he made an extensive map of the cellars and sewers, detailing traps, barriers, and locks. If it exists, it has never come to light. The alley is also notable for the fact that much of it was once destroyed by a wyrm bursting up from below! There is an old legend in the city of a dozen or more dragonets that once hatched early and ate their way to freedom, escaping from an importer of dragon eggs into the city sewers. They dined on rats, thieves, and other skulking monsters, growing slowly in size and powers. This tale has prob¬ably grown a great deal in the telling, but a single dragon undeniably broke out of some cellar, cell, or sewer below the widest part of this alley some 70 winters ago and flew away over the city to escape into the nearby mountains to the north. Its origin, if it was learned at the time, has been forgotten.

Manycats Alley

This way crosses two city blocks and winds through the interior of a third, running between and for the most part parallel to Julthoon Street and Traders' Way. It passes just to the south of the Adarbrent noble family villa, and is notable not only for the many cats that roam it (for which it is named), dining on leavings from several butcher shops located along its run, but also for the many carved stone heads that adorn buildings along the alley. The carved heads are of both sexes and many races and are very lifelike—leading some fanciful folk to claim they are petrified, severed heads of once- living beings. Whatever their origin, it is widely believed in the city that the heads speak aloud from time to time, uttering cryptic messages.

Shattercrock Alley

This short alleyway circles south from Stabbed Sailor Alley only to meet with it again, encircling^ the Margaster noble family villa. It is named for a famous incident, many summers ago, when a wizard—Phantamos of the Purple Cloak, who went on to become mighty in Art, a legend across the North—was learning to fly by means of magic and swooped wildly through a huge cart of crockery being pushed along this alley to make delivery to a shop here. For many years a tavern, the Wizard with Wings, backed onto this alley fronting on Suldoun Street, but it burned down of suspicious causes a decade ago. A fine shop offering spectacular hats, wigs, and body-manes to ladies stands on the site now.

Courts

Factions hideouts and strongholds

Harpers

Ulbrinter Villa

Thoft's FIndings

Zhentarim

Lord's Alliance

Guard's Barracks

Order of the Gauntlet

Emerald Enclave

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Maps

North Ward Waterdeep

Watch of North Ward

Wardsman: Melias Kaldumdrymm (Vhezoar St. Watchpost) Tower March Watchpost: Rorden: xxx • x patrols Wavestar Court Watchpost: Rorden: xxx • x patrols Vhezoar St. Watchpost: Rorden: xxx • x patrols Golden Serpent St. Watchpost: Rorden: xxx • x patrols Nindabar St. Watchpost: Rorden: xxx • x patrols

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Глубоководье

Включенные места