Grabford

A smaller town than Crockport, Grabford has a similar design. The DM should develop plans if an adventure is to be set here. The map of Crockport can be used as a base, although there is no offshore island here. The rulership of Grabford is, however, quite different. The vampire-mage Maskaleyne, another member of the Lesser Boneheart, rules here. Maskaleyne favors babau tanar'ri as his personal guard and is a creature of utmost cruelty and whim.

Only a few hundred human slaves and hostages remain here. Maskaleyne has yeth hounds and gargoyles among the monsters which form a large part of the town's defense, and even orcs and hobgoblins dislike having to serve here. Maskaleyne is too arbitrary, too chaotic, for anyone to feel safe. However, Iuz appears to be content with his rulership here and thus none dare speak their dislike too openly.

Grabford is, just possibly, a weak link in Iuz's defenses. While Crockport teems with soldiery and has an intelligent and ingenious priest with formidable personal support leading them, Grabford's defenders are poorly organized and its defense relies too much on monsters and fiends rather than a balance of might, magic, and wit. Because raids in this area are rarer from the Furyondian lands, this weakness has not been exposed to date. The Furyondian provincial ruler to the south is busy rebuilding defenses rather than seeking to reclaim captured lands. While recapture of the city is not feasible for a strike force, a raid into the city to retrieve treasure and booty and to inflict major casualties is certainly a plausible possibility.