Editing Infodumps from IC posts (section)

==Zizdul==
Rabanus observes what was once a great city, as large as Rhea's Ford, if not larger. It is centered on three hills that slope down the to shores of the bay, terraced in buildings of sandstone and adobe. Each hill is topped with enormous edifices -- one is clearly a temple, the other, the closest to the water, a keep, and the third looks to be a palatial mansion of some sort. For the most part the buildings are several stories tall, with some reaching sixty or eighty feet into the air. Rabanus also counts a half-dozen towers reaching to the sky, some three hundred feet in height.

The main of the city is surrounded by a wall some forty feet tall, punctuated by sixty foot towers every hundred yards or so. Overall the buildings appear to suffer from disrepair and neglect; in some areas entire city blocks have been razed to the ground. Zizdul possesses a mile or more of waterfront, most of which is lined by decaying docks and half-submerged boats slipping under the surface of the water. There do not appear to be any ships capable of sailing. Numerous columns of smoke rise from the various buildings and vacant lots, but what he makes especial note of are the sheer numbers of humanoids that can be seen. Crowds of them fill the street, of a bewildering array of races, sizes and appearance. He sees goblins, orcs and ogres, bugbears and gnolls and even, sprawled around an enormous campfire in the center of a cleared city block, a family of five brutish looking giants, easily twice the height of an ogre. There are crews of kobolds working on the city walls, overseen by stern looking hobgoblins with whips, markets teeming with these races plus others less identifiable. If the mage were to guess he would say there were at least a thousand inhabitants of the city, and most likely more.  [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?765089-IC-ACKS-The-Wilderlands-of-Absalom&p=19783282#post19783282 IC 1615]