WATERDEEP'S NORTH WARD (Patreon)

North Ward has always been a prosperous “not noble old money, but wealthy and grasping after prominence” district of Waterdeep, though like all generalizations, this fails when one looks closely, for “the North” has its paupers, its “clinging by fingertips to abode, as shop assistants” population, and its share of long-resident nobles with their mansions and villas, too.

North Ward has always had this image of “quiet respectability,” and is a “relatively safe” neighborhood. Few bother to inquire as to why, but the truth is that since shortly after Ahghairon’s passing, it’s been the home of no less than nine dragons, who spend much of their time in human shape, and who long ago quietly modified the famous dragonwards of the city to not “see” or act on them, thanks to enspelled tokens they formerly wore, but which they long ago embedded in their scales (Laeral warns me that these are not the only “pass-tokens” that let draconic beings ignore or freely bypass the city wards, and some of the items with this function have surprising forms).

If you come across references to “the Silent Nine” in Waterdhavian writings of the 1360s (which was when others, notably apprentices in Blackstaff Tower...

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