Pardue

Built where the Mikar and Thelly rivers slowly meander toward each other, Pardue is another tradeplace quieter than it once was. Its 3,300 people still find fishing and farming lucrative, however, and the 600 soldiers posted here to protect against the threats from Medegia and from the lands south add security to their lives, even if they also add an element of brutishness.

The townsfolk's lives are at least brightened up by the open-air antics of Wallzern, a maverick 10th-level priest of Olidammara whose satirical and sarcastic songs and verses poke fun at virtually all the powerful and noble folk of the Darmen lands and beyond. How he manages to get away with this without being arrested, exiled, or executed is a mystery to most people. He just seems to have a charmed life; certainly, the man is too happy with the attraction of wine most days to defend himself against any serious attempt to dispose of him.