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== Introduction == 

Blackport.

The very name is synonymous with corruption, sin, theft, immorality, and wantonness.

A city in the no-man’s land between the lawless and barbaric warlord-ruled lands of the Bakulanders and the Orc-dominated wastes of Ûgozh, Blackport is an independent city-state run by the powerful and mysterious Sovereign, who governs with an iron fist to keep the massive city under control.

Without a doubt, Blackport is predominantly evil – but it is a lawful version of evil, in stark contrast to the chaos that surrounds it in Bakuland and Ûgozh. It is a place where everything and anything is for sale for a price – so long as the appropriate taxes are paid so that the Sovereign’s coffers remain full. The laws, such as they are, are aimed at keeping the economy running; “crimes” that don’t affect the economics of the place are of little interest to the inhabitants.

The city’s population is an amalgam of races that are likely not found elsewhere: Orcs from Ûgozh; human berserker warriors from Bakuland; barbaric humans of the Vulkul clans and tribes from the frozen north who arrive on ships; Goblins, Hobgoblins, and Bugbears; Ogres and Trolls, and a small number of true giants; even a few hardy Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, and Halflings – mostly outcasts, criminals, and refugees from more civilized lands, who are tough enough to survive and thrive in a place dominated by their traditional enemies. Blackport is awash with pirates comprised of all these races, and more.

Blackport also imports slaves from across all the Lands, as far away as mysterious Nihar, as close as the Kingdom of Athervon, just over the Iron Mountains. Many can only look forward to a life of servitude amongst those wealthy enough to afford them; some wretches are destined for the games of the Arena, there either to earn their masters enough to win their freedom, or to be carried out to be processed for the humanoid denizens of the city; a slave’s only hope is that they are expensive, which means the laws of the City protect the economic interests of their masters.