Hey @TheEdVerse, another Waterdeep question for you. I was looking over a couple of the different official maps the city has had over the years and I was wondering – do these three unlabeled stretches of road have names by any chance? pic.twitter.com/w74Hp5gMeA
— Sundered|🐜|ENVTuber (@Sundered_Ant) November 14, 2021
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They do. ;} The purple route is the southern end of The Cliffwatch (don’t be misled by the ground furrows, and the open ground along the clifftop that isn’t a street: The Cliffwatch runs south from where its name-label appears on the map, and Saerdoun Street and… 2)
…Zendulth [formerly “Zenduth,” before the name got corrupted, over time] both branch off of it). This southern end is also known as “Watchway.”
The red route is Malkur’s Ride.
The green route that connects The Beaconmarch with Malkur’s Ride is Selvur Alley, …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 14, 2021
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…the cul-de-sac jutting north off it is Handaramatur’s Court, and the serpentine alley that crosses Selvur Alley (all of the rest you’ve highlighted in green) is Dathantar’s Crawl.
Malkur was an irascible and villainous independent adventurer-mage of the early…6)
…buildings in the city block the alley named for him now bisects; he created the alleyway by tearing down decaying buildings he’d bought and building smaller-footprint, taller ones that left room for a cut-through; the Palace was pleased and cut him a tax…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 14, 2021
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…couldn’t slow or turn abruptly, and he very quickly tired of being slammed with bone-shattering force against buildings on the west front of Zendluth Street).
Selvur was a doppelganger posing as a Calishite merchant in the late 1200s DR, who bought several…
#Realmslore 4)
…1300s DR who refused to join the Watchful Order; this was the street he memorably used to gallop along on a phantom mount he’d conjured up, while experimenting with a new spell he was devising (it worked fine, as an ever-increasing-velocity rushing movement he..#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 14, 2021
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…break, unaware that they were assisting in housing a growing community of doppelgangers.
Handaramatur was a sage in the early 1300s DR whose expertise was genealogies of common Waterdhavians to date, the trade agreements and therefore ties between them, the… 8)
…businesses they founded, and their guild memberships; he dwelt in the building at the north end of the court that doesn’t front on Malkur’s Ride, but adjoins one that does. He died of a “contagious fever” in the harsh winter of 1331 DR, and the “shady secrets”..#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 14, 2021
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…he’d written down in his researches were never found (either someone pounced on them right away, or they’re still hidden somewhere in the aging three-storey house, which has had more than a dozen owners since).
Dathantar was a famous-in-his-day nightsoil wagon.. 10)
..operator of the early 1200s DR, who lived somewhere along the alleyway now named for him, and used to stop his aromatic, laden wagon to snatch a bite to eat at home with his wife, so the wagon was said to “crawl” along this stretch by neighbours because its stench lingered.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 14, 2021
If I had the time, there’d be a book of on-the-ground what’s for sale in the shops, who lives and works where lore for every ward of the city.
I’m doing just that for Ath Cliath (Viking-ruled Dublin, circa 835 AD) for the #FateOfTheNorns game right now, so you could just borrow..— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 14, 2021