Elturgard

Elturgard was a theocracy in the Western Heartlands ruled by paladins of Torm in the 15th century DR.

History
Elturgard was first formed by the paladins and clerics of the city of Elturel after the Spellplague in 1385 DR. It was the first nation to have grown in the Western Heartlands. It encompassed much of the middle Heartlands and took up the region in the Fields of the Dead that was not already incorporated into the booming city-state of Baldur's Gate, an ally of Elturgard.

In 1437 DR, an Amnian spy was returning to Amn with valuable information about the nation of Elturgard; he was kidnapped and rescued by Flaming Fist recruits and the information reached Amn. However, an unethical merchant consortium in Baldur's Gate called the Twilight Brotherhood also gained the information. With a deva from Elturgard, the recruits once again handled this and became part of the Flaming Fists.

Industry
About half of the Fields of the Dead belonged to the nation of Elturgard, as the metropolis of Baldur's Gate grew so massively that it encompassed half of the Fields. Both used it for farming.

Locations

 * Cities and Villages
 * Elturel: The city that formed the nation of Elturgard.
 * Triel: A village that willingly joined Elturgard.
 * Scornubel: Another city that willingly joined Elturgard.
 * Berdusk: Another city that willingly joined Elturgard.
 * Soubar: A small walled town housing the ruins of the Black Abbey, a monastery of Bane.
 * Iriaebor: Independent city-state influenced by Elturgard.
 * Quelden's Mask: a village between Berdusk and Scornubel
 * Galardoun: a village between Scornubel and Triel on the Trade Way
 * Ceranda Hills: a Hamlet north-west of Elturel
 * Arylon: a river trade city west of Elturel
 * Boareskyr Bridge: northernmost member of the State of Elturgard, north of Soubar on the Trade Way
 * Tempus' Tears: a burrow village with dwarves and gnomes, leaf farms
 * Aloum Lyndren: leaf farm north of Elturel owned by Tatha Bereul
 * Anga Vled: Gnome village on the Chionthar west of Elturel, east of Arylon
 * Sunrise Spire: tower west of Anga Vled
 * Moonrise Towers: east of Anga Vled
 * Beldenshyn: Gnome village with goats and crossbows on the Winding Way river
 * Khalderen
 * Greenest: farming village south of the Woods of Sharp Teeth
 * Trollclaw Ford: ruined hamlet overrun with trolls
 * Rysheos: village south east of Boareskyr Bridge
 * Kraak Helzak: Dwarven Kingdom, independent of Elturgard


 * Forts
 * Fort Morninglord: A ruined fort dedicated to Torm.
 * Fort Tamal: A fort protecting Boareskyr Bridge and named after the paladin Tamal Thent.