The City of Ashes was once a city of note, but its ruined buildings and foundations have long since been covered over, and now it serves as a necropolis for the poor and disadvantaged of Bard’s Gate. It sits at the edge of the mountains, and five ridges run into the city itself, so that they look like the claw of some enormous beast.
The City of Ashes is maintained by Fuad the gardener and his half-orc assistant T'saalix, Erlend the archeologist, and Genevieve the bard. They work to keep the graveyard in order during the day, but leave before the light fails, for rumors of the restless dead haunt the City of Ashes.
The company learned that the Red Blades, the assassin’s guild of Bard’s Gate, use it as a dumping ground for corpses, and now there might even be a secret cult of Orcus operating beneath the City of Ashes…