Shargallen and Trennenport

These two small towns are very alike. Both are walled, have similar populations (2,900 in the western port, 3,100 in Shargallen), and both are important secondary naval bases. Shargallen is most noteworthy for a small sect of worshipers of Beltar, who have an unparalleled knowledge of the coastal caves the length of the Relmor Bay coastline. Several of them still hold buried treasures, caches of gold left by pirates who never lived to return to claim them, and a festering evil of some kind—a necromancer's cavernous laboratory, perhaps, or some malign minor magical artifact.

Trennenport, on the other hand, is a busier port, not least because of its proximity to Onnwal. As the major western port along the coastline, its walls and defenses are being strengthened, and there is something very unusual being done underneath the sea walls. A force of nearly 100 sahuagin are commanded by the sinister mage Bortwimn here. They constantly dive into the shoreline waters, fetching and carrying stone, strangely-shaped and rune-etched plaques, and other oddities. Exactly what is being built below the waters is unknown, and heavily armed troops discourage any over-curious soul from getting anywhere close enough to find out.