The city of Blackwatch was one of the wealthiest capitals outside the region of the Central Empires.
Excluding the capitals of the elven and dwarven lands, it was likely the wealthiest of them all. Founded through the union of a hundred merchant republics, this was only natural.
The merchant confederations of Blackwatch controlled all land trade with the Central Empires, and many claimed they paid fortunes to pirates to attack merchant ships, causing terrible damage to the economies of the Kingdom of Solene and the Kingdom of Burning Ice.
Even though no one had proof of it, few truly doubted the rumors. After all, the barbarian forces simply didn't attack Blackwatch ships.
Blackwatch, its capital, was an extremely wealthy metropolis. Well, to be more specific, it had been an extremely wealthy metropolis.
The current Blackwatch was in flames, surrounded on all sides.
