Hezvix

Category	Cities
Continent	Brucrumus
Region	Northern Hordelands
Owner	Umahanbad
Population	175,000+
Races	Gnoll 30% Turkûn 25% Hobgoblin 20% Githirmil 10% Gradorian 5% other 10%
Founded	29 Lunar 138 GE
Map	Zyrath

Built during the Demon Spawn War (89 GE - 269 GE), Hezvix was designed by Demogorgon's preeminent builder, a Marilith engineer named Skinaere. Serving as a critical supply depot, it bolstered Demogorgon's expansion into the Zyrath and Sava'loth regions.

A master at constructing layered defenses, Skinaere designed Hezvix with supporting walls and towers, positioned close enough that if one falls, they come under fire from the next higher wall. In addition to her expertise in civil engineering, Skinaere was renowned as a consummate torturer. Whenever she built something, she ensured it had a dungeon. During the war with the Covenant, Hezvix's prison saw extensive torture and agony, leading to it being sealed off due to the psychic trauma it causes; regrettably, it is also the lair of ancient, anguished spirits and ghosts of terrible power. Such is the danger of this place that each year, Krumisbar sends a team to inspect the prison's wards. Despite their differences, the holy advisors and their contractors set aside their conflicts when it comes to securing Skinaere's Sanctum, as they are no friends of the Umahanbad Oligarchy, the owners of Hezvix.

After the demons were forced back to their abyssal realms, Hezvix was abandoned to the untamed wilderness. Once a mighty fortress housing a garrison of 40,000, it now served as the domain of beasts, monsters, and marauding warbands of gnolls, hobgoblins, and giants. More than clashing with one another, these denizens dreaded the potential threats lurking within Skinaere's Sanctum.

In 901, the Bloodbeards were banished to this desolate ruin. Former denizens of Phlehorn, deemed too hazardous for the throne, they were abandoned in this crumbling edifice with only their loincloths and malicious designs.