Ferdozan
Ferdozan is one of the best known drow cities in the northern Akadonian Under Realms. Situated deep beneath the Green Mountains and accessible by tunnels opening into the Quail Valley, word of the might of Ferdozan has reached far and wide, and some believe that this has been its undoing.
Ferdozan has access to a gateway to the remains of faraway Barakus, and in recent generations has been exploring the possibility of founding a new city there. Many Ferdozan troops have been committed to this project, and perhaps that is part of the explanation for Ferdozan’s currently diminished state, but some suspect, rather, that the whole purpose of this attempt to start anew in Barakus is that something has gone terribly wrong in Ferdozan.
Queen Matron Helsass and her consort and vizier, Tiernant, as well as her various commanders, all take great pains to hide Ferdozan’s weakness from outsiders, but anyone gaining entrance to this vast and sprawling underground city can see that most of its homes and streets are empty and abandoned. The city is designed to be easily defended by very few troops and a scattering of mages, such that every entrance tunnel remains secure from all incursion, even with such diminished forces, but the population of Ferdozan is declining rapidly. If this trend continues, it may not be long before the city falls.
Threatened from all sides by every manner of other Under Realms’ denizen, it is difficult to discern clearly what has led Ferdozan to this pass. Certainly most of the once-mighty city’s inhabitants have been kept in the dark, as it were, and those few who might know more are not sharing their knowledge. Rumor speaks of incurable disease, curses, the withdrawal of the Spider Queen’s blessing, derro plots and poisons, unimaginable horrors from the depths beneath the city, and even the work of unknown adventurers. Whatever the case, it is not impossible that Ferdozan’s fall would mean something much worse for Quail River and the rest of Reme.
There are entities dwelling in the darkness, deep beneath the bright, upper world, that are far more terrible than mere drow, after all.
Ferdozan has access to a gateway to the remains of faraway Barakus, and in recent generations has been exploring the possibility of founding a new city there. Many Ferdozan troops have been committed to this project, and perhaps that is part of the explanation for Ferdozan’s currently diminished state, but some suspect, rather, that the whole purpose of this attempt to start anew in Barakus is that something has gone terribly wrong in Ferdozan.
Queen Matron Helsass and her consort and vizier, Tiernant, as well as her various commanders, all take great pains to hide Ferdozan’s weakness from outsiders, but anyone gaining entrance to this vast and sprawling underground city can see that most of its homes and streets are empty and abandoned. The city is designed to be easily defended by very few troops and a scattering of mages, such that every entrance tunnel remains secure from all incursion, even with such diminished forces, but the population of Ferdozan is declining rapidly. If this trend continues, it may not be long before the city falls.
Threatened from all sides by every manner of other Under Realms’ denizen, it is difficult to discern clearly what has led Ferdozan to this pass. Certainly most of the once-mighty city’s inhabitants have been kept in the dark, as it were, and those few who might know more are not sharing their knowledge. Rumor speaks of incurable disease, curses, the withdrawal of the Spider Queen’s blessing, derro plots and poisons, unimaginable horrors from the depths beneath the city, and even the work of unknown adventurers. Whatever the case, it is not impossible that Ferdozan’s fall would mean something much worse for Quail River and the rest of Reme.
There are entities dwelling in the darkness, deep beneath the bright, upper world, that are far more terrible than mere drow, after all.
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