Okay But What Is Baldur’s Gate, the Place?
Baldur’s Gate is a city on the Sword Coast—a region along the west coast of Faerûn, a continent itself part of the Forgotten Realms, one of Dungeons & Dragons’ oldest and most-explored settings. South of one of the other major city states in Faerûn’s north, Waterdeep, Baldur’s Gate is known as a mercantile hub, a neutral city of commerce that made it not just a popular center for trade across the continent, but a home base for the many adventurers looking to find their way in the region. Its importance not just along the Sword Coast but to Faerûn at large has made the Gate a nexus point for some major conflicts over the years, from political squabbles to control the city to the iron crisis that drove the first Baldur’s Gate game, to the machinations of the gods and other supernatural planes of the Forgotten Realms themselves.
