Population: 24,000
Majority: half-elves, humans, and dwarves
Minority: dragonborn, eladrin, tieflings, orcs, and half-orcs
Religion: Asmodeus, Bahamut, Helm, Kelemvor, Oghma, Selûne, Torm, Tyr, Waukeen
Government: Lordship
Ruler: Lord Protector Dagult Neverember
Imports: Crafters, mercenaries
Exports: Crafts (especially water-clocks and exotic lamps), fish, horticulture, logging, magical innovations
Neverwinter, also known as the City of Skilled Hands and the Jewel of the North, was a bustling, cultured, and cosmopolitan city-state in northwest Faerûn. Neverwinter was regarded as the most cosmopolitan and civilized city in all of Faerûn. The city was a member in good standing of the Lords' Alliance. Known for its craftsfolk and gardeners, the city's multi-colored-glass lamps, precision water clocks, exquisite jewelry, and magnificent gardens ensured the warm winters were colorful and the summers were rich with fresh fruit.
The city remains under construction today, still repairing itself after the eruption of Mount Hotenow 40 years ago.
After the Eruption of Mount Hotenow in 1451 DR, the city was laid to waste and it's ruling family was killed. In the Year of Splendors Burning, 1469 DR, Lord Dagult Neverember, seeing an opportunity to add to his financial empire, hired workers to help rebuild the city and mercenaries to protect it from monsters and bandits. Claiming to be a descendant of Neverwinter's former rulers and thus the rightful "Lord Protector" of the city, Dagult started the New Neverwinter movement. Lord Neverember invested a great deal of his own fortune to rebuild the city's infrastructure, buy the interest of merchants to send their caravans again to Neverwinter, and even ensure Neverwintan refugees had enough food and gold in hand.