AT A GLANCE: Marsember is the 
second-largest city of Cormyr, and, like 
the capital at Suzail, is a seaport on the 
Dragonmere.  Marsember is built on a 
series of small islands, with each island 
crossed and recrossed by a number of 
canals. 

ELMINSTER'S NOTES: Marsember is 
the City of Spices, and is so named 
because 4 rival trading families 
based here have shipped spices to and 
from lands far across the Inner Sea for 
decades, drawing much of the TRADE in 
condiments for the region here. 

Because of the large numbers of small 
fishing boats that work out of its harbor 
(or anchor in the mouth of the Wheloon, 
but bring their catches here for
sale), Marsember is the kingdom's busiest 
port. 

Marsember is infamous for its intricate 
network of sewer-like, narrow, 
winding canals, which run throughout 
the entire city.  Spans of stone connect 
the upper floors of close buildings, and 
light skiff are poled through the streets.  
Flat, hard ground is at a premium in 
Marsember, so that only the courts of 
the wealthy and the places of government 
have large plazas laid out above 
the high water mark.  

GAME INFORMATION: The light skiffs 
used in the canals of Marsember should 
be treated as rafts, though their dimensions 
are 8-10' long and 2-4' wide.

Marsember is ruled in the Namea of 
the King by Ildool, a grasping political 
hack who retains his job is part by 
bemoaning how terrible it is, so that no 
others covet his post.  Rumors fly that 
Ildool skims his tithes to the crown, but 
all accounting to date has been proper.  
Ildool is a Grand Knight.