Finally, Amn and the Heartlands can be seen as being divided, with the Sword Coast in between as its own entity.Ĭategories on this wiki are currently arranged according to the latter viewpoint.

One can also see the Coast as merging from Amn into Heartlands, or that the Heartlands stop at Baldur's Gate, etc. Some players are ambivalent and subscribe to more expansive definitions of the Western Heartlands with the border line at Beregost, which roughly divides the Sword Coast up into Western Heartlands and Amn. It is a matter of dispute whether certain areas in the game belong to Western Heartlands or Amn. With a few exceptions, such as the Cloakwood forests, the names below are either the displayed names, or an unequivocal description of their geographical location which aids navigation the more evocative names are shown in their respective articles.Ĭanon is real life politics in the service of imaginary things that can be fun, and often makes them not the Baldur's Gate game is surely not seen as canon by some Forgotten Realms players. The developers gave all of these locations colorful names, but not all are visible in-game. Baldur's Gate & Tales of the Sword Coast įully explored original Baldur's Gate world map

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