Map of the Town of Hardby

The deepwater port of Hardby has long been a bastion of fortune-hunters, cairn-raiders, mercenaries, and adventurers, given its location northwest of many infamous dungeons and ruins in the western Abbor-Alz. The Hardby Marines mount antipiracy patrols across Woolly Bay and the Greyhawk Mountaineers scout the hills and mountains to the east for bandits and humanoids that raid outlying villages and farms. Troops are alert for possible raids by forces loyal to the traitorous archmage Rary coming out of the Bright Desert.

Adventurers from Hardby claim to know a hundred ruins worth sacking in the Abbor-Alz, and they aren’t exaggerating by much, The current rage is the hunt for the “lost” (fifth) Star Cairn, but so many ruins await discovery that there are not enough adventurers to visit them all. An informal agreement exists that all adventurers will help others in need, given the extreme dangers of the region, and this guideline has not often been broken.

References: City of Greyhawk: Gem of the Flanaess, page 33; From the Ashes Campaign Book, page 17.

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