Port Llast

This sleepy little coastal village of 700 is ruled by a First Captain closely allied to Neverwinter (largely to avoid conquer by Luskan, who want a more southerly harbor for its warships). The current First Captain is Haeromos Dothwintyl, a retired stonemason.

Port Llast is a city of skilled stonecutters. The stonecutters work at quarries on the coastal headlands just south of the village. Other than harborage or stonecutting, there is little else to recommend it to the traveler today, for it's a tense, suspicious place, always expecting treachery or attack from Luskan.

At Port Llast, a beach and inlet empty into a small bay sheltered by a high, rocky spit. The port is overlooked by cliffs where boulder-hurling siege engines are placed. The harbor is home to a 12-boat fishing fleet, but two of the ships are in very poor repair. Port Llast is a close ally of Neverwinter. Fifty men-at-arms from the City of Skilled Hands, bolstered by 30 of the Lord's Alliance troops, aid the 50-person local militia in guarding the town from brigand and Luskanite harassment. The Lords' Alliance troops are mainly from Elturel and Baldur's Gate, so that a Luskan attack would risk war with two economically powerful cities.

Port Llast held great importance to humans as the northernmost point of human access to the riches of the North when orcs and duergar held the lands where Luskan (then Illusk) now lies (hence, ihlast portlt). Then, the port was home to 14,000 miners and explorers eager to find gold, gems, and the fabled mineral wealth of the North. Rampaging orc hordes battered down the city walls (or the walls were plundered by citizens to repair their homes, allowing the orcs to infiltrate), and much of the population was either destroyed or forced to flee.

The village never recovered. The shattered remnants of the perimeter can still be seen circling the town to the east, though much of the stone ruins have been used to repair local homes or was taken away and sold. Many of the lands once cleared for the port have become gardens and cemeteries, or else they have been reclaimed by the forest.