Twin Songs
Standing ready to welcome visitors as they cross the river, Twin Songs is renowned for its enormous diversity of shrines and places of worship, from tiny roadside altars and idols to home-based temples. While those in search of significant magic must still generally visit the larger temples in the city proper, no god is too foreign or obscure to be worshiped in Twin Songs' divine sprawl, where even non-criminal worship of fiends and The Dead Three goes unchallenged.
This Outer City neighborhood holds shrines to more gods than most people know of—at least until they pass through the place. Refugees from foreign wars or disasters who come to Baldur's Gate by way of Wyrm's Crossing often leave tokens of thanks to their gods upon their safe arrival. Tokens became displays, which then gained signposts, and awnings over the signposts to shelter the contents. In time, it became a Baldur’s Gate custom to make certain that one’s favored gods are represented among the riot of shrines, booths, idols, altars, and temples that sprawls over the Chionthar's northern bank.
Notable People
Straightstick. The kingpin of the Twin Songs Faithless runs one of the city's best smuggling operations, slipping goods into the city along the Chionthar River and over Dusthawk Hill. The seventy-year-old claims to have been attacked by the infamous (and doubtfully real) Ol' Cholms, a giant snapping turtle rumored to sleep at the bottom of Gray Harbor. To prove his story, Straightstick uses a splinted old ferry pole as a crutch. Recently, the kingpin has grown bitter about his position, believing he deserves a territory within Baldur's Gate proper. He's planning an attack on Brampton, the destination of much of his smuggling and the territory of his ex-wife, Diamond Urchin.
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