City of the Dead

The City of the Dead is one of the twelve or so wards of the city of Waterdeep. The interred were generally not nobles, as they usually used private crypts below their villas, or family estates outside of the city. Eventually, overcrowding of the cemetery became a problem, and a master of portal magic created portals to other planes of existence within many of the mausoleums, which were then used as crypts.