Calimport

Squalor and splendor are the two sides of the coin that is Calimport. Depending on who you are and how you first experience the largest city in the Realms, it is either the City of Glory or the City of Slaves. Calimport was briefly examined in the Empires of the Shining Sea boxed set, but here we're taking a closer look at the infamous home of the pashas, peeling back the layers of intrigue and wealth to see Calimport as it truly is.

The City of Ravens Bluff

It's a place called Ravens Bluff, where adventurers are at home and wonders almost commonplace.This book is a campaign introduction to the Living City made famous in the tournament adventures of the RPGA. Over more than a decade, hundreds of gamers have designed little bits and pieces of Ravens Bluff for the love of the game. This book
can't do more than skate over the surface of the ice their hard work laid down, but it pulls together much of it into organized form. No book can ever hope to comprehensively detail a whole city, but this one sets forth the bones of the Bluff, from nobles to city government to guild intrigues. Adventurers will find a home and adventures galore here.

Cormanthyr: Empire of the Elves is one of the best references for elven culture I've found. This book goes over elven high magic, dualists they're like specialist mages only they study one school of magic AND it's opposite), how one becomes an elven high mage, and the laying of mythals. MYTHALS! (You can make your own Myth Drannor!) It also has background on the elven court on the main land of Faerun (as opposed to Evermeet), and lot of information on what clans mainland elves might belong to, plus the most prolific members of each listed clan. I just don't understand how someone could say that this book is anything but amazing!

The place has many names: the Underdark, Deepearth, the Realms Below, the Night Below, the Lightless Lands. The vast world beneath the surface is home to fabled races such as beholders, cloakers, drow, illithids, and ixzan. Menzoberranzan, the dreaded City of Spiders, is only one of the hidden cities of the Underdark.

Sea of Fallen Stars Campaign Expansion

Skullport

Skullport, or the Port of Shadow to the learned and informed, is a dismal and dangerous domain populated by the most vile beings the Underdark has to offer. Mercenaries gather to sell their swords and lives to the highest bidder; drow move about shading their sensitive eyes from glowing fungus, driftglobes, and braziers of glowworms; and slaves go up on the blocks to feed the Calishite and mind flayer demand for labor. In this underworld city beneath Mount Waterdeep, anything and everything can be bought, sold, or traded for a price...

Welcome to the fourth of my groundbreaking
(umm, perhaps that's an unfortunate choice of
word) travel guides. Many folk have long clamored for coverage of the fair realm of Cormyr in my oeuvre (I don't know what that word means, but Elminster uses it, so it must mean something grand), and your wishes, ladies and gentlesirs, are my commands. I pray, therefore, to all the gods who may be disposed to smile favorably upon such efforts that your eyes also find favor with this latest of my works...