Island Kingdoms

What makes me such an expert on sailing off the Sword Coast? Well, experience, for one. Survival, for another. I’ve been doing this longer than most of my readers have been alive, and this is the third version of this book I’m offering. I write one of these only every half-century, and if you think the purchase price isn’t worth the heaps of coin you’ll make by selling my work to your customers, you’re a fool. Don’t want it? Don’t buy it.

– Gardorra Burr, to a Waterdhavian bookseller

West of the Sword Coast lies the Sea of Swords, and beyond that the Trackless Sea, a vast expanse separating Faerûn from whatever lies to the far west. Between the shore and the unknown are a number of islands, some large and others so small they lack names of their own. These island nations trade — and war — with Faerûn and one another, just like any mainland nation.

The information below is drawn from Fifty Years at Sea, Volume the Third, by Gardorra Burr, a gnome sailor who has spent most of her two hundred years traversing the Sea of Swords.