Post/Author/DateTime	Post
loki87 10-20-03, 03:30 PM	Considering that slavery and the slave trade is a major issue in the Realms, I'm trying to catalog all the nations and city-states across Faerun who engage in or accept slavery (not including Thayan enclaves). If we keep a running list going here, it can be a resource for everyone. I'll start: Amn Calimshan Chessenta Menzoberranzan Mulhorand Mulmaster Skullport Teshendale Thay Unther Voonlar Yulash Zhentil Keep That's all I can think of off the top of my head. There are definitely quite a few more. Anyone? :)
Masakado 10-20-03, 03:56 PM	Tashalar Dambrath Others will hit me the closer I am to my books.
Iakhovas 10-20-03, 07:09 PM	The city-state of Hillsfar, along the Moonsea, enslaves non-humans captured in/near the city, then forces them to fight in its arena. Not exactly slave *trade*, but slavery nonetheless.
Raeke 10-20-03, 07:32 PM	Would you consider Narfell a slave state? Prisoners that the Nar tribes might take could be forced into slavery, it seems to me.
avian tiefling 10-20-03, 09:59 PM	There's also the other drow cities of Ched Nasad and Ust Natha
Masakado 10-20-03, 10:02 PM	Originally posted by avian tiefling Ched Nasad Resists urge to spoil someone's pleasure reading.
Darkmistress 10-21-03, 12:29 AM	Originally posted by Masakado Resists urge to spoil someone's pleasure reading. *casts Greater Malison and Lower Resistance*
Another Gnome 10-21-03, 04:12 AM	Originally posted by Darkmistress *casts Greater Malison and Lower Resistance* *Points at the beginning of the second paragraph* spoiler (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/frnovel/886250000)
satans_advocate 10-21-03, 09:53 AM	:OMG! :twitch: :hoppingma ok, i guess i have to read insurrection now
Herr Doktor 10-21-03, 10:46 AM	So excitable, advocate... I can't think of any other countries as involved in slavery as those listed.
loki87 10-21-03, 11:08 AM	Hmm, for some reason I thought the list would be far longer. What about all those nations between Faerun and Kara-Tur, like Var the Golden or Semphar? I'm sure some of those are slave states.
Niftyone 10-21-03, 11:41 AM	Chondath for sure... And though I'm not 100% sure, I'll bet a +5 sword that at least half of the independants aroung the Lake of Steam, as well as the countries to the south of there, also practice it. The Lake of Steam area in particular must as they are on the route between Calimsham and Chondath which should be a heavy slave route.
Masakado 10-21-03, 10:47 PM	There are slave trading routes through the Shaar, the Dragon Coast (Westgate most likely has legal slavery), as well as the Nelanther Islands. Given the various elements that make up Var the Golden (agrarian culture, greedy merchants, fetching aristocracy, ruled secretly by a blue dragon), there's a good shot that there may be institutionalized slavery there as well. Semphar is made up of small farming communities, so I don't think there's much in the way of slavery there.
ruadan 10-22-03, 08:56 PM	According to LoD, the city of Shade has slaves. A few humans and a multitude of orcs and the like.
avian tiefling 10-22-03, 09:27 PM	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Another Gnome [B]*Points at the beginning of the second paragraph* unfortunately, my PC was incapable of downloading the sample chapter, anyways. :hoppingma: *begins to snarl at the monitor* actually, i don't know that much about Ched Nasad, i just assumed that because it was populated and governed by Drow, it would support slavery.
Adrian Moonbow 10-23-03, 02:42 AM	Oebel, or whatever it is called (the city in which 'The Black Buquet' takes place)!