Atherstone

The walled city of Atherstone was traditionally a trading post to the Pale and a base garrison for the Pentress castles. The Fists absolutely vandalized Atherstone when they captured it and on this occasion it must be said that they showed very good taste in doing so. Pre-war Atherstone had many garish, colonnaded villas and great halls of remarkable ostentation and pomp, frequently cluttered with such delights as gilded statues and busts, sentimental sculptures of lovers wooing and nature spirits coyly peeking from stream and tree. Most of it is now rubble and all the better for that.

Trade to the Pale has now ceased and a small garrison of Fists pass time here, bullying and beating their Tenha slaves. The slaves are used to farm around the city and venture into the Troll Fens for swamp hay, rare healing herbs, and wood from a tough local scrub bush which makes good flight arrows. Because the Fists leave much of eastern Tenh minimally occupied, small bands of Iuz's fiends, based in the old museum ruins, stalk these lands by night. The nabassu feast well west of the Yol.