Graydirge

Bone-shrouded Graydirge is a remote city located in the eastern foothills of the Shattered Range. Ancient and grim, the city has remained free of significant invasions or disasters for thousands of years, despite its distance from larger fortified cities like Mechitar and Yled. This is largely due to the city’s impressive fortifications of bone and stone, sizable population of ghouls and necromancers, and the zombie-tilled fields that surround it for miles in every direction, providing a natural—or unnatural—barrier to any would-be invaders.
Graydirge once served as a remote military outpost positioned to intercept troops invading Geb along the eastern edge of the Shattered Range. The war between Geb and its rival Nex caused it to expand rapidly. The city’s architects first decided to use bones to construct the city’s buildings and fortifications simply because the material was so plentiful and provided an unmistakably disconcerting appearance. What began as a convenience quickly evolved into a tradition, then a respected architectural style.
Graydirge is ruled by a single high governor with absolute authority over all municipal decisions. In practice, the high governor can do little to enact changes in policy and serves mostly as the enforcer of existing laws. The city’s civic administrators comprise a small coterie of functionaries that are appointed by (and can be removed by) this high governor; unsurprisingly, all of them are mere toadies who grovel before the high governor to maintain their sinecures. The current high governor, Taf-Gekhta Seven Stomachs, is as ineffective as those who’ve come before him and, as a ghast, smells significantly worse.
The nation’s Blood Lords technically outrank Graydirge’s high governor, but few have any reason to even visit the out-of-the-way city, much less intervene in its governance. The exception is Graydirge’s only resident Blood Lord, Berline Haldoli. A halfling necromancer with close ties to the nation’s Reanimators faction, Berline is responsible for food production in the zombie-worked farms that sprawl around her city.