The Forgotten Realms [Fan Version]

The Sword Mountains, arcing northwest of Waterdeep and east of the Mere of Dead Men, rise rugged and imposing, their western slopes tumbling into rolling foothills that meet the Trackless Sea. These peaks, a natural barrier shielding the Dessarin River valley and the High Forest from harsh seaward storms, are steeped in a violent past. Historically, orcs and trolls contested these lands, with the orcs, under Wund's Scarlet Scourge, driving out the trolls in 927 DR. Uruth Ukrypt's horde later emerged, twice assaulting Waterdeep, only to be repelled. The mountains remain a place of lurking danger, with the Broken Bone orc horde, remnants of the Scarlet Scourge, harboring ambitions for further raids, making these peaks a perilous, though strategically insignificant, natural obstacle.