In all of the Forgotten Realms, these locations aren’t even good to go to, a lot much less stay there.
The Forgotten Realms are residence to untold wonders beneath the glimmering sky of Toril.
Whether or not you’re looking on the huge stretch of shire-like inexperienced nation of the Dalelands, or the windswept shoreline of the ocean of swords, there’s no finish to locations filled with pure magnificence and marvel to go to.
Or in case you’re extra within the city splendor of Faerun, fret not, for cities like Neverwinter and Waterdeep and Baldur’s Gate stand tall and welcome in guests from all walks of life. The sights! The smells!
It’s additionally residence to locations which can be simply the worst. Like these!
Thay
A chief candidate for worst place in Faerûn. The house of the world’s most evil wizards. In the event you’re on the lookout for a violation, odds are good they’re right here, someplace. Whether or not they’re populating some sort of doomvault fortress with backup phylacteries, or simply waging a struggle of conquest upon these components of the realms that haven’t determined to raise mages to the very best rulers of society, the Purple Wizards of Thay are by no means going to high the holiday vacation spot charts.
Like several society hell-bent on elevating one class above the others, their kingdom is sort of horrible in case you aren’t a member of the ruling class. And with pink wizards, it’s doubly so as a result of even in case you *are* a member of the ruling class you might be nonetheless sort of compelled to take care of the autocratic, megalomaniacal needs of a Lich for a boss, which suggests you don’t even have the paltry hope that someday they’ll die.
Anauroch
Take a desert. Then make it radioactive. After which fill it with actively hostile credit and you’ve got the Anauroch. Created through the explosive collapse of one of many mightiest and most malevolent magical empires Faerun has ever identified, the Anauroch is what stays, not of Edith Finch, however fairly the Netherese Empire.
And like every historic, magic empire it was filled with flying cities. Which had been an ideal metaphor for his or her literal and metaphorical fall from grace.
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You realize the story, even in case you’ve by no means heard it earlier than. Mastering magic wasn’t sufficient, in order that they tried to change into like unto the gods and it mainly broke the whole lot. And now this desert is mainly a radioactive magical wasteland the place monsters hang around and the traditional cities of Netheril are additionally kinda trapped within the airplane of shadow.
Menzoberranzan
This Drow metropolis can also be not a enjoyable place to be. It’s one other bizarre oligarchy the place a robust cadre of magic customers, priestesses on this case, oppress everybody. However like, have a look at the artwork for it.
Even the drow who rule over the world don’t need to be there. Why would you need to go to? Positive it’s cosmopolitan. The de-facto capital of the Underdark, Menzoberranzan is a spot the place you could find drow and duergar and thoughts flayers all mingling below the identical roof and oppressing the heck out of these much less lucky than they.
Zhentil Hold
Zhentil Hold is the house to the Zhentarim, a community of lawful “positively not” evil retailers and mercenaries. However don’t let the identify or the truth that the Zhentarim are an excessively rich mercenary and mercantile group idiot you. This metropolis is a cess pit. Zhentil Hold was misplaced comparatively just lately so far as the official timeline of Faerun goes. The Zhentarim, greedier than they’re clever, allied with the Phaerimm.
The Phaerimm, for reference, are mainly massive magical leeches that need to feed on magic, fly round, and could be all about erasing everybody from existence (which they’ll do) besides then there wouldn’t be anybody to slowly torture-murder, so they’re about being evil, torture-murdery abominations as an alternative. However solely simply. Naturally, the Zhentarim’s alliance with these backfired, and Zhentil Hold was destroyed by evil shadow wizards from the airplane of shadow, and solely now, a few hundred and twenty years later, have they retaken it.
And so they nonetheless gained’t let most folk in, on account of how harmful it’s.
Skelkor
Skelkor is a spot so dangerous that it may solely come from one other world. The realm generally known as Skelkor was as soon as a part of the world of Abeir, which in case you go manner again in Forgotten Realms historical past, is form of a sister planet to Faerun. Solely within the distant previous, when the gods and titans warred, Ao, the overdeity sundered the 2 planets, leaving the gods and all of the cool life types to Faerun, and all of the titans and their unusual, corrupt creatures to Abeir.
And on Abeir, Skelkor had a popularity–it’s dominated by an evil empire, known as the Evil Dragon Empire (I imply come on it has evil within the identify), and the world, as an entire, is trapped between huge mountain ranges and trackless seas, so even in case you wished to do something like “go away this dragon-ruled hellscape” you couldn’t. Not with out being a robust adventurer in your personal proper, however these are likely to get devoured up by the Dragon Queen of Skelkor
Now we flip it over to you? What’s the worst place within the Realms? Tell us within the feedback!
