Sword Coast, Faerûn

The Outer City stretches beyond the walls of Baldur’s Gate, an unruly sprawl of shantytowns, camps, and roadside commerce clustered around the main gates and thoroughfares. Technically outside the city’s jurisdiction, it is home to refugees, outlanders, and those too poor—or too disreputable—to live within the walls. Despite neglect from the city’s authorities, the Outer City thrives with grit and resilience. It serves as both a threshold and a refuge, where smugglers, traders, and travelers pass through or settle in makeshift homes. Life here is harsh, but fiercely independent.

The Outer City is a chaotic patchwork of structures: tents, lean-tos, crumbling ruins, and cobbled-together hovels form winding lanes and muddy commons. Vendors operate out of wagons or canvas stalls, peddling everything from exotic goods to dubious potions. Campfires flicker under tarpaulins, and animal pens, shrines, and scrap heaps share the cramped space. Paths are uneven and unguarded, lit only by the occasional lantern or the glow of a forge.