Chendl

Chendl is the capital of the Kingdom of Furyondy.

Overview

Chendl is a planned city, a capital built to specifications, intended to replace Dyvers as first city of the kingdom. It is strongly walled with beautiful buildings. Canals cross the city, along which gondola-like vessels languidly conveyed peacock nobility. It boasts hanging gardens, broad boulevards and a wondrous palace. Chendl has a claim to be the most delightful city in all the Flanaess. The noted bard Diambeth writes, “The City of Greyhawk may claim to the Gem of the Flanaess, but I name Chendl to be the Diadem.”
In total, Chendl has a garrison strength of 850 men including the Queen's own forces and some soldiers of Kalinstren. Wearing armor and weaponry about the city, once a crime, is now commonplace.
Chendl has a unique atmosphere. Contrasting with the teeming soldiers, artisans and laborers is a rich social life on the part of the surviving aristocracy. They make a point of not allowing anything as trivial as the threat of war to affect their social lives. Chendl is a place to wine and dine, to hear opera, to sniff the scented gardens, and to gamble at the casinos and gaming houses. There are hideously expensive restaurants and overpriced taverns aplenty in Chendl. There is still grandeur in Chendl. The continual light lanterns along the boulevards still shine brightly, there are no slums or even recognizable “poor folks” housing. There is, admittedly, a shanty town of some 3,000 souls fled from northern Kalinstren huddled around Chendl’s walls, but Chendl’s occupants are proud people.
Chendl’s rigidly structured social mores are ever so present. The representatives at the Noble Council and “old blood” nobility are top of the pile, lesser nobles and knights second, skilled artisans and the very richest merchants third, other artisans and merchants next, and everyone else last. There are no poor people here, at least as far as social niceties are concerned. There a seamier side, but not a very large one. The Guild is all but extinct here despite the vast numbers of militia and other soldiers.

Notable locations

• College of War
• Heroes’ Rest Inn
• King’s Arms Tavern
• Raniandurn’s
• The Rusty Pommel
• Sutter’s
• The Weatherhaven Inn
• The Wyrm

Founding Date

283 CY

Type

Large city

Included Locations

• College of War
• Heroes’ Rest Inn
• King’s Arms Tavern
• Raniandurn’s
• Sutter’s
• The Rusty Pommel
• The Weatherhaven Inn
• The Wyrm

Owner/Ruler

Francessa de Cardaille

Owning Organization

Furyondy