Blacksplinter

These badlands are home to the most treacherous and dangerous of all the nobles of the land, Prince Ferrenan, bastard son of a Cranden/Rax-Nyrond union which gave him a necromancer for a father and a priestess of Incabu los for a mother. Ferrenan's own home is a grisly necropolis, a mausoleum-keep with the bodies of a hundred and more ancestors entombed in marble—to keep them firmly in their graves, many would say.

The very terrain around this place is extraordinary enough. Patches of bog and swamp threaten the traveler with a swift drowning death, since many are disguised by hallucinatory terrain, and there is a vast sprawling network of potholes which descend into gleaming black caverns infested by monsters. Passages to the Underdark are to be found there, and there are constant rumors that Ferrenan receives drow as guests to his undead-thronged halls.

Yet, Ferrenan cannot be ignored or forgotten. Ghosts and spectres compelled to serve him bring him reports of events in Almor. The vampire-necromancer-prince of Blacksplinter appears very anxious to make sure Szeffrin's armies never break through beyond the Harp River (further details are given in his entry in the Person alities section below). Thus, Ferrenan is an ally of Carwend, albeit a repulsive one, and the prince of Rel Deven does not turn away allies in this time of great need.

Ferrenan also owns a library of works by Cranden mages, including some unique spells for banishing and greatly weakening extra-planar beings. Carwend and many others are desperate to obtain these works. Ferre nan does not permit visitors to enter his lands. He has the grounds patrolled by zombies with ghast leaders said to be of great size and exceptional cunning.