Badwall

Badwall, or properly the Lands of Badwall, was an inland city-state of the Wild Coast, conquered and destroyed by the Orcish Empire of the Pomarj during the Greyhawk Wars.

Badwall lay on the Wild Coast, on the eastern side of Woolly Bay. It was inland of Fax to the north east and Eldredd to the east. The Suss Forest lay to the south and west, and the edge of that forest was essentially those borders for the state. Celene and the Jewel River lay to the west. The Welkwood was to the north.

As of Spring 591 CY orcs and other savage humanoids guarded the occupied and devastated city.[1] The city was ruined, and mostly emptied of humans.[2]

The population of human citizens in 576 CY was 5,200.[3]

In 591 CY the population was unknown but estimated at possibly 3,300.

The ranger Darda Krath ("old" in 591 CY) was a former resident.[4]

There were rumors of a sleeping cabal of vampires entombed somewhere underneath the city.

The inhabited settlements are either occupied by a humanoid tribe or are an entire community of slaves and their masters. All of these villages have been extensively looted, and nothing of real value is left in them. Some of the villages have been abandoned for so long that wild animals have begun to lair in the buildings.

The humanoids care little if the slaves live or die. Being true carnivores, these taskmasters are happy to feast on dead slaves. Fear of this fate drives slaves to cling tenaciously to life despite the odds being stacked against them.

Though life is cruel for human slaves, it isn’t entirely pleasant for the humanoids either, even by their skewed standards. The weaker tribes mostly goblins and kobolds — are practically slaves to the larger races, forced to labor at excavating the underground tunnels and fighting for whatever food is left. Orcs and gnolls oppress the goblins and kobolds in part to keep them from fighting among themselves and partly just out of cruel spite. Food is scarce, plunder is lean, discipline is harsh, and morale is at an all-time low. Fear of Turrosh Mak’s wrath and the attack of human and demihuman forces from the free lands is the only thing that binds these disparate tribes together.

Sean K. Reynolds and Chris Pramas. Greyhawk Adventures, Slavers, 2000