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__NOTOC__ <div style="float: right; width: 400px; border: 1px black solid; margin: 20px; padding: 10px;"> [[Image:Dock-ward.jpg|center|400px]]<br> <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 150%">Notable Neighborhoods</div> * [[North Ship Street & South Snail Street]] * [[Southeast Dock Street]] * [[South Book Street & Trollcrook Alley]] {{WaterdeepGuide}} </div> Ports, by their very nature, are unclean, noisy, crowded, and constantly busy places where few outsiders are welcome. Waterdeep’s Dock Ward fits this mold, though its notoriety and bedlam are, if nothing else, slightly muted by the tales told up and down the Sword Coast. It was best described, by a wizard of no little note, as a “riotous, semi-stationary but nigh-perpetual brawl that covers entire acres and is interrupted only by small buildings, intermittent trade business, an errant dog or two, and a few brave watchmen (who do manage to keep the chaos from spreading beyond the docks), the whole lot wallowing in the stench of rotting fish. Still, in all, “twas quite a lusty, intriguing place to spend an evening.” City watch patrols and guard contingents keep this ward in a semblance of order, traveling in well-armed groups of eight during the day and groups of twelve or more after dusk. Many of the roads are gravel-packed dirt, once the docks and cobblestone access roads to the Way of the Dragon are left behind. The dark, mud-strewn alleys are endless in Dock Ward, and they hide many dangers, despite the alertness of Waterdeep’s defenders, so travel in large, heavily armed groups if you must. Dock Ward’s boundaries, quickly stated, are the harbor and the southern boundaries of Castle and Trades Wards. The northern boundary runs north and east on Lackpurse Lane to Belnimbra’s Street, over and down Gut Alley, and turns east to Shesstra’s Street. Moving east and turning south onto Book Street, the boundary moves east again on Drakiir Street until it meets the Way of the Dragon, the eastern perimeter of Dock Ward. The southern border of the ward is, of course, the docks and the harbor. ===Architecture=== Despite being the oldest settled area of Waterdeep, Dock Ward consists of many wooden structures all built upon each other with a few stone buildings to provide structural support for the rest. While people worked and lived here for 1000 years before Ahghairon’s rule, few buildings last for more than 30 years. The only permanent constructions that have existed for extensive periods of time in Dock Ward are the docks themselves, as well as the protective harbor walls and the towers of Deepwatch Isle. With the relatively new cobblestone streets along the docks providing easier access to trade routes within the city, talk is circulating of updating and improving buildings along those routes. As far as the Lords are concerned, any improvements here are definitely for the better. ==Watch of Dock Ward== * '''Ward Civilar:''' Nylahuel Onlryn (Belnimbra's Watchpost) * '''Belnimbra's Watchpost:''' ''Rorden:'' xxx • 5 patrols * '''Cedar St. Watchpost:''' ''Rorden:'' xxx • 6 patrols * '''Drawn Sword Watchpost:''' ''Rorden:'' xxx • 6 patrols * '''Sixcasks Watchpost:''' ''Rorden:'' xxx • 7 patrols * '''Slut St. Watchpost:''' ''Rorden:'' xxx • 5 patrols ==Residences== {{Dock Ward Residences}} ==Businesses== {{Dock Ward Businesses}} ==Nightlife== {{Dock Ward Nightlife}} ==Temples== {{Dock Ward Temples}} ==City Buildings== {{Dock Ward City Buildings}} ==Guildhalls== {{Dock Ward Guildhalls}} ==Alleys & Courts== {{Dock Ward Alleys}}

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