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Bezantur
Warehouse District
City Tombs
Citadel of Correction
Slave Market
Central Citadel
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Temple of Umberlee
Loviatar’s Manor
Temple of Mask
House of Cyric
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money-grubbing merchant in red robes, but the Master of the
Guild is a wizard of no small skill and stands high in the
ranks of the school of transmutation.
NOTABLE BUSINESSES
Hundreds of artisans, merchants, and laborers fill Bezantur’s
commercial districts. The most important part of the city’s
economy, however, are the docks that run the length of the
city’s shore. Hundreds of ships from every land on the Sea of
Fallen Stars are moored to these stone quays or rock gently
at anchor in the bay beyond, waiting for their turn to tie up
and take on cargo.
The docks range widely in quality and safety. Some rival the
finest in the world; others amount to a rocky patch of shore
where one might shove a rowboat. No matter where a ship’s
master moors, however, she can expect to be charged for the
privilege. In the better parts of town, the docking fee earns
her top-level service and protection from the ever-emboldened
members of the local thieves’ guild. In the worst parts, she is
essentially paying the local thugs not to rob her. If they keep
anyone else from robbing her too, so much the better.
A traveler can find just about any kind of legitimate merchandise
imaginable within the city’s walls. For those in search
of something less legitimate, Tharchion Thrul has long turned
a blind eye toward any dealings in Market Town, a cluster of
shacks that cozy up against the city’s mighty walls like remoras
near a shark’s gills.
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10. Temple of Kossuth
11. Guild of Foreign Trade
12. Shantytown
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MAJOR TEMPLES
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Once of Bezantur’s many nicknames is “the City of a Thousand
Temples.” Just about every god in every pantheon on the face
of Faerûn is represented here. This is one of the few major
cities in which evil deities are worshiped proudly and openly,
and some of their most magnificent temples are in Bezantur.
Only the patronage of Mystra and Azuth is forbidden; the Red
Wizards jealously guard access to arcane knowledge by any
means outside of their own tutelage. The most popular gods
among Bezantur’s people are Umberlee and Mask.
The Temple of Umberlee is monstrously large, carved from
massive blocks of blue-veined green marble, reminiscent of the
watery domain of the goddess of the deep. Traditionally, Umberlee
is honored with wealth thrown from a ship’s railing into
the waters of the open sea. The people of Bezantur have refined
this a bit. Instead, they rob the captains of ships, throw
some of their ill-gotten gains in the water, pocket some of it
for themselves, and bring the remainder to this temple. Those
who brave the shark-, sahuagin-, and monster-infested waters
of Bezantur’s harbor to gather loot offered up to the Bitch
Queen invariably suffer death by drowning, no matter how far
from the sea they flee.
The Temple of Mask doubles as the headquarters of the extremely
powerful thieves’ guild. Its leader, Guildmistress Shabella
the Pale (NE female human Rog7/Clr11 of Mask),
struggles to maintain her position against an incursion by the
Shadowmasters of Telflamm. The guild here controls nearly
all of the illegal activities in and around Bezantur, making it
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