Outer City
The Outer City of Baldur's Gate encompasses all the neighborhoods not protected by the city's walls. Dirty and uncouth, the Outer City holds everything the elite of Baldur's Gate resist allowing within their walls: the poor, refugees, tanneries and stockyards, and other industries that might offend highborn sensibilities. Spanning forth from each of the city's gates, the Outer City is a ramshackle tangle of shanties and shops, carts and tents lining the road in the hopes of bleeding off enough city trade for their owners to survive. Indeed, much of the commerce in Baldur's Gate happens in the unregulated markets of the Outer City, with even patriars occasionally venturing out there, heavily protected in perfumed carriages.
Residents of the Outer City are not technically citizens of Baldur's Gate and receive no representation in government nor the benefit of the city's police forces. Flaming Fist patrols rarely venture outside of city walls, usually emerging only to pursue Outer City residents for crimes committed within the city itself.
The challenges of the Outer City lead to small, tightly knit communities, where a person's honor and social connections are the only things standing between them and a quick death.
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