![[Pasted image 20251222153326.png]] **Type:** Independent coastal trade region **Location in Faerûn:** Central **Land Region in Faerûn:** Shores of [[The Dragonmere]] ([[The Sea of Fallen Stars]]) **Kingdom or Country (if any):** None- a chain of independent city-states **Ruler (if any):** Merchant princes, guild coalitions, crime lords (*varies by city*) **Note:** The Dragon Coast sprawls along the southern flank of [[Cormyr]] and rings the Dragonmere, a lawless but thriving stretch of ports, smugglers’ dens, and mercenary markets. Its most notorious cities: [[Westgate]], [[Teziir]], [[Starmantle]], and [[Proskur]] operate outside any crown’s authority, ruled instead by merchant consortiums, pirate captains, shadow guilds, and powerful families. Trade flows endlessly through its docks: rare spices, relics, illicit goods, monster trophies, and treasures dredged from shipwrecks. Fortune favors the bold here, but betrayal is cheaper than bread. To Cormyr, the Dragon Coast is both essential and irritating; a neighbor too profitable to condemn and too unruly to control. For wanderers like [[Dio Eldwynair]], it’s a region where a man can vanish in plain sight, trade steel for coin, and lose himself among a thousand nameless faces along the Dragonmere’s restless tide.