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__NOTOC__ <div style="float: right; width: 400px; border: 1px black solid; margin: 20px; padding: 10px;"> [[Image:Sea-ward1.jpg|center|400 px]]<br> <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 150%">Notable Neighborhoods</div> * [[North Diamond Street]] * [[Northern Seawatch Street]] * [[Central Street of the Singing Dolphin]] * [[Jelzar's Stride]] <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 150%">Sea Ward Lifestyles</div> * '''Wretched:''' There is no space permitted for squatters and the homeless. * '''Squalid:''' The Sea Ward generally lacks the kinds of flophouses that mark this lifestyle, save perhaps among some of the meanest of servant quarters. ''Inns:'' None • ''Taverns:'' None • ''Festhalls:'' None * '''Poor:''' Occasionally, accommodations of this scale can be found at the edges of the Ward, generally closer to the wall and tucked well out of sight. ''Inns:'' None • ''Taverns:'' The Broken Lance, Wyvern's Rest • ''Festhalls:'' None * '''Modest:''' More common is the lifestyle of those who take space in a boarding house or spare rooms above or behind a shop. They are still undeniably the meanest of those in the Sea Ward, however. Many of the temples maintain boarding houses for their folk of this scale: humble and simple, without real luxuries. ''Inns:'' Golden Harp Inn • ''Taverns:'' The Sated Satyr • ''Festhalls:'' None * '''Comfortable:''' Generally speaking, the majority of the Sea Ward folk live comfortably, with secure incomes and good living spaces afforded by their proximity to noble wealth. ''Inns:'' Pilgrims' Rest, the Wandering Wemic, Maerghoun's Inn, Dacer's Inn • ''Taverns:'' The Ship's Wheel, Gournar's Tavern, the Fiery Flagon • ''Festhalls:'' High Flagon Gambling House * '''Wealthy:''' Many of the secondary branches of nobility dwell with this sort of wealth and comfort, as do the many very successful merchants, priests and the sort. ''Inns:'' The Silken Sylph • ''Taverns:'' The Crown & Heron • ''Festhalls:'' House of Purple Silks, the Silken Sylph * '''Aristocratic:''' For the most part, the nobles of the Houses live in this kind of opulence, particularly the immediate family of its patriarch or matriarch. {{WaterdeepGuide1354DR}} </div> As the wealthiest ward of the city, Sea Ward is the seat of power for the established noble houses. Nearly empty during the winter due to the fierce sea storms, many of the nobles, well-to-do merchants, and social climbers call this home in the summer. Walking along the Street of the Singing Dolphin, the major avenue for the ward, one can expect to spot many of the grandest homes in Waterdeep, from the spires and gables of noble villas to the craggy and mysterious turrets of the wizards' towers. Sea Ward also contains many of the city's temples and Heroes' Garden, the only public garden outside the City of the Dead. Truly important (and self-important) people come to this ward to build their opulent homes while more modest folk or those more entrenched in the everyday politics and power of the city often choose to live in Castle Ward. As with North Ward, watch patrols are quite frequent as one of the benefits of position. They are always polite and generally lightly armed, as most of the miscreants they find in this ward are well-dressed, drunken nobles who need only to be steered to the next party. The Watch deals swiftly with any other disruptions, their tolerance for any vandalism, violence or theft being quite low. The boundaries for this district are Julthoon Street and Shield Street, with a small eastern arm extending to the High road along Vondil Street. ===Architecture=== Aside from Piergeiron's Palace, you cannot find more finely crafted workmanship than the homes of Sea Ward. While North Ward tends toward pretense, the older, grander villas and temples of this ward have an air of stateliness and majesty (to say nothing of haughtiness). The ward's variety of building details are astounding, from talking tavern signs that wink at customers to three gilded towers that seem braided together. While seeming petty and grasping to outsiders, an address here is not a joking matter, and many Waterdhavians spend their entire lives hoping to get a good address within Sea Ward's boundaries. Most of the ward's streets are paved in cobbles or corduroy. The nobles insist on getting the rest of the alleys paved, but the Lords' Loyal Order of Street Laborers are under express orders to maintain the existing corduroy roads. They may, however, replace the corduroy by the House of Inspired Hands with cobblestone, as frequent "testings" and explosions have set the log road on fire on multiple occasions.<br> {{1354 DR Sea Ward Watch}} ==Residences== {{1354 DR Sea Ward Residences}} ==Businesses== {{1354 DR Sea Ward Businesses}} ==Nightlife== {{1354 DR Sea Ward Nightlife}} ==Temples== {{1354 DR Sea Ward Temples}} ==City Buildings== {{1354 DR Sea Ward City Buildings}} ==Guildhalls== {{1354 DR Sea Ward Guildhalls}} ==Alleys & Courts== {{1354 DR Sea Ward Alleys}}

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