Nyham Chae
Nyham Chae suffered the worst under the corruption and mismanagement of previous rulers. Ongoing repairs to the ancient walls around this small city, and to the King’s Road winding through it, feel like a bandage over a deeper wound. Despite rebuilding efforts throughout the city, a sense of decay, a hint of darkness, clings to the atmosphere here. Seen best in the quiet countenance of its residents, there is an ongoing feeling that some dark calamity is on its way.
Mayor Piers Touriq battles against corruption here in the name of the overking and the baron. Where other areas of the barony were corrupt, Nyham Chae was a festering pool of darkness and decay. Rather than taking the time to investigate the crimes of those who had run the city, Mayor Touriq brought in his own guardsmen and rounded up the city leaders, previous guard members, and guild leaders in a single night. It was decided that, in Nyham Chae, there were no innocents in power and the previous leaders of the city were all executed over a period of several weeks. The purge and reclamation of wealth paid for the major building projects in the city, with repairs to the walls and the King’s Road being of primary importance as they were directly ordered by the overking of Foere.
Wood-frame buildings here stand atop ancient stone foundations that predate even the stone of the King’s Road. While foundations so old in other places hint at some previous greatness, here there is no sense of a greater past or more impressive history, just age. Freshwater springs in the center of the city support beautiful, if ill-kept, gardens, but little else here could be described as beautiful. New efforts to clean and revitalize have done nothing to quell the stench of the tanneries or the smoke that hangs heavy in the humid air.
Nyham Chae, once a major stop on the King’s Road between the main seat of the Kingdom of Foere and the Duchy of the Rampart to the east, became a place merchants and trade caravans avoid staying in for long. The overking of Foere himself ordered his new baron to ensure the city is brought back to its previous, if not glory, at least ability to support the needs of the kingdom.
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Nyham Chae, City of
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