Chessenta - Forgotten Realms Lore

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This video covers Chessenta, a group of independent, yet culturally connected, coastal city-states in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting for Dungeons & Dragons. They are based off ancient Greece but have their own fantasy/Realmsian twist to them. I tried to dig up every tiny piece of detail I could find on this place and present it to you in a matter of fact way, while explaining the various inconsistencies, retcons, and differences between sources, supplying my own reasoning on how to reconcile them when applicable. https://patreon.com/GenghisSean 0:00 Intro 2:25 Disclaimer 3:20 Population 3:48 History 7:55 Races 10:18 Social Classes 13:28 Culture 16:17 Language 17:28 Government 19:32 Laws 20:31 Religion 35:21 Economy 37:41 Coins 40:04 Geography 53:13 Settlements 1:20:29 Outro Sources Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 2nd edition 121-122 Old Empires 50-64 Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition 182-184 Races of Faerun 97 Dragons of Faerun 37-39, 45, 72, 91-92 Dungeon Magazine #178 68-77 Dragon Annual #4 24-29 Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide 4th edition 90-91, 100-101 Dragon #377 62 Sword Coasts Adventurer’s Guide 11, 112 Attribution Image: Early Athenian Coin By I, PHGCOM, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2392720 Image: Saddams' Reconstructed Babylon By Jim Gordon, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4859955