The City of the Dead
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Waterdeep
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The North
Castle Ward
Sea Ward
North Ward
City of the Dead
Trades Ward
Southern Ward
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Dock Ward
1st Edition AD&D
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FR1 Waterdeep and the North
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Forgotten Realms

Unkeyed tombs are those of individual noble
or wealthy family. In several cases, noble families
share a tomb, which usually leads to separate
crypts beneath and several floors above.

161. Mariner’s Rest—tomb for all drowned at
sea, and all ship-captains, however deceased.
The long-ago mage Anacaster made this tomb
a gate to an “empty” prime material plane,
with infinite burial space around the shores of
a quiet lake.

162. The Hall of Heroes—warriors’ tomb, for
fighters and all who fall in battle. Anacaster
made this one a trophy hall, and at its end a
gate to pleasant rolling fields on the same
“empty” plane, where the warriors are buried,
row upon row.

163. The Hall of Sages—tomb for sages; a
dusty, fascinating place with only about 70
buried here.

164. Monument to the warriors of
Waterdeep—a 60-foot-high stone sculpture
depicting a circle of men striking down trolls,
orcs, hobgoblins, bugbears, and barbarians,
all of whom are falling backwards —
outwards—all around them. Impressive to all
but the pigeons.

165. Merchants’ Rest (“The Coinscoffin” tomb).
This, another of Anacaster’s gates to a lightly-wooded
region, is the resting-place only of
those who prepay for the honor, hence its
nickname.

166. Ahghairon’s Statue—a tall sculpture of
the bearded, robed Mage, in light-hued stone.
Ahghairon stands atop concentric steps, his
hands outstretched to indicate the City
around him and a smile on his face. The steps
are lit by night with rows of torches, and are a
favorite meeting-spot by day.

167. The House of the Homeless—tomb: this is
a vast mausoleum; Anacaster’s gate leads to an
apparently endless labyrinth of underground
caverns, lit by the Guild of Chandlers & Lamplighters,
who are paid by the City for this service.
Here lie all the dead of Waterdeep who do
not merit, or do not own (by purchase or
membership in a noble or wealthy family), a
place in any other tomb. If their names are
known, such are always cut into the rock
above the hole where their ashes are interred.
All burials here are cremations.
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