Free City of Irongate

The Free City of Irongate is built around the base of a long-dilapidated Second Age castle. The origins of Irongate Castle are undoubtedly of giantish nature as the doorways, hallways and rooms are all of enormous proportion. It is rumored that the city was once the capital of a great giant kingdom, although no written trace of such exists. The current city is home to a most unsavory collection of thieves, brigands and vagabonds. Irongate also boasts the largest population of ogres, trolls and giants in the Eastern Reaches. The city is run, however, by the self-proclaimed Marquis of Irongate, a human wizard of the nastiest disposition. Mindar the Mad rarely leaves the high towers in the ruins of Irongate Castle.

Twenty years ago, during the occupation of the Eastern Reaches by the sons of Hastur, it is rumored that Mindar was given powerful artifacts of evil and chaos by Harek. In return, the Irongate monarch continuously bred discontent and chaos in the surrounding courts with an almost constant barrage of false intelligence and innuendo. Irongate merchants trade in weapons, armor and black magic items.