Sword Coast

The Sword Coast, also nicknamed the Empty Lands, is the region in western Faerûn that lay along the coast of the Sea of Swords and extended inward into to the vale. The Sword Coast is an expansive tract of wilderness, dotted with independent cities and overrun by bands of monstrous creatures, that some see as merely a place through which you have to travel in order to reach an actual meaningful destination. It is much more than that of course, a rich and vibrant land with a long and storied history that encompasses some of the most important cities in all the Forgotten Realms. It was considered one of the rougher locales of Faerûn, both geographically and by virtue of its people. While scholars disagree as to the exact borders of the Sword Coast, it is generally considered to be bordered by the merchant nation of Amn in the south, and in the north by Waterdeep the Delimbiyr Vale. Some guides consider it to begin south at Candlekeep and continue all the way north until the city of Luskan, though most other cartographers and writers share the former opinion on the matter, designating the coastal lands north of Waterdeep as the separate Sword Coast North.