Evernight

It is a city of the undead and those that trafficked with them—unhinged necromancers, slave traders, and followers of dark deities.

Demographics

Vampires, ghosts, and various undead humanoids. Mostly destitute and very few held wealth or power aside from the members of the Tribunal. The majority of Evernight population was undead. Ghouls, ghasts, vampires, and other kinds of intelligent undead, as well as zombies and other kinds non-intelligent undead made up the bulk of the population. A minority of living inhabitants of many races also lived in Evernight, usually those of evil-alignments or those who were captured to serve as food for the undead.

Government

The city is controlled by a tribunal of powerful individuals. When a conflict was brought to the tribunal to be resolved, its members proclaimed their verdicts by eating whichever party they found unworthy of their time. Because of that, few citizens petitioned the tribunal unless there was no other option. Besides that, there were no formal laws in Evernignt, and living beings that were not declared formal citizens usually were fair game for the undead, unless they had a powerful citizen as patron or were considered useful for the city to function properly.

Defences

A hungry population of flesh-eaters and blood drinkers was enough of a threat to put off most living adversaries. For enemy undead or necromancers however, the priests of the Temple of Filth had a secret doomsday weapon hidden away in case their own people were not enough to defend the city. This weapon was a magical artifact that had the ability to project radiant energy equivalent to the light of Toril's midday sun. Only strong undead creatures were capable of handling it without being instantly destroyed but even then, they suffered crippling pain. Once wielded against enemy undead however, hundreds were sure to be destroyed all at once, even under the pall of the Shadowfell. The artifact itself was protected by a shrine in the Temple of Filth, hidden by ritual magic, behind trapped and cursed doors.

Industry & Trade

Evernight is located in a crossroads in the Shadowfell, making the city a center of commerce in that plane. Evernight imports live meat. Those that were lucky became slaves, those that were unlucky became meals.

Infrastructure

The whole city is in disrepair, as if the wood and stone that holds the buildings together had the life leeched out of them, becoming rotten and crumbling. The few streets paved with cobblestones are cratered with potholes, and the rest are lanes and alleys filled with grave-dirt trodden and scuffed into a fine dust. The atmosphere is damp with a chill wind under a perpetually gray sky. Evernight has a few portals and many "dimensional gasps".

Type

City