Nevond Nevnend

Nevond Nevnend fell as swiftly as Calbut, with the Fists pressing on and flanking the retreating Tenh forces against all of Duke Ehyeh's expectations. When they approached the city, there was a panic. Foolish orders by Ehyeh's men turned the city guards on the panicking mobs and a riot started. One of the better-kept secrets of the war was that Sevvord behaved unusually because Iuz was guiding him, and in Nevond Nevnend, carefully disguised fiends spread fear among the commonfolk and suggestions among the officers of the guard.

Fiends are still important here and fifty of them prowl the streets in human form, keeping away from the Stonefist men and toying with the city slaves as they wish in quiet and secluded places. Ehyeh's old palace was hung with the bodies of his slain generals when the capital fell, and is now abandoned as a vermin-infested mass give. When Sevvord Redbeard visits to gloat over his "second capital," he holds court in the rich houses of the nobles on the southern side of the city away from the old palace.

The capital city was always a center for the work of artisans and those who produce goods valued by the Fists such as stout clothing, leather items, weaponry, saddling and horse gear are mostly still here and created better than most. That is, they don't have to fear a random beating to the point of near-death at any moment of the day or night. The homes of sages and artists, and the libraries and scriptoria of the city, have been burned, razed, defaced and smashed for the most part, although Iuz's agents were able to retrieve a fair smattering of tomes, objets d’art and treasures before random pillaging set in.

In addition to the fiends here, who are under pain of death not to make their nature public, Iuz is well served by the Diviner Shorroleth. Shorroleth's public role, in meeting with the Fists, is to feed them supplies of weapons for their fight against the barbarians. Aside from this, Shorroleth is a meticulous seeker after buried treasures around the city. He has recovered much of value, from chests of gold hidden under floorboards to magical items hidden in secret chambers of wizards who fled by teleportation and had not the time to take everything of value with them. Together with the bandit thief Gorreless, he snatches many valuables right from under the noses of the Fists. Of course, the expert at divinations keeps some things for himself, but that is only to be expected.

There is said to be some residual resistance in the capital's extensive undercity of crypts, mages' passages, which often include dimension door/teleport sections, sewers and vaults. But fiends stalk this hidden second city and Jermlaine are more than a nuisance pest here too. If there are free Tenhas in the undercity, they have not achieved much in the way of success against their oppressors yet.