I have noticed this as well. Not in the blighted village mind you but there have been multiple times when there was a perfectly safe path from the top of the ledge to the ground level and instead of taking the sensible path my character would just walk off the ledge and face plant on the ground.
Between this and walking through fire and other damaging obstacles, people seem to be suicidal in the Forgotten Realms. That's probably why everybody forgot about them.
Last edited by Phanixis; 13/10/20 10:47 PM.