Balduran

Balduran is a legendary seafaring explorer. He was the first native of Faerûn to set foot on the lands known as Anchorome and made the trek up to Sossal. He returned full of tales and vast wealth. He put forth a large sum of money to protect his sparsely-settled home harbor town. Then he set sail of Anchorome again and has never been seen again. His money was well spent on the wall though, and that small town soon grew into the city of Baldur's Gate.

The Flaming Fist took an expedition to Anchorome to discover the fate of Balduran. They encountered vast tribes of savage elves, that decimated the expedition.

Balduran's body was later found by a group of adventurers on a small island dubbed "Werewolf Island" where his ship had run aground five centuries before. He and his entire remaining crew were killed by a large number of his own shipmen turned into werewolves by the Anchoromian priests, only one man survived without contracting Lycantrophe, Dradeel, the ship's cook and mage, a now quite deranged elf hermit.

Balduran also lends his name to the Bay of Balduran on Anchorome.