Merket

Merket is a small city in northern Dolovai that serves as a home to adventurers and quests, and is known to house two assassins’ guilds and numerous mercenary companies. In Merket, as in much of the north with the exception of White Cape, human slavery remains legal, a holdover from an older northern kingdom that was conquered ages ago. Merket is the former capital of the old northern kingdom of Porean (or Tenchere, depending on which history you read).

The city centers around where the castle used to be, but it was razed to the ground and now there’s a marketplace and a church there. There’s no southern gate, because it was broken down in the war and they bricked over it rather than repairing it as a symbolic gesture of defiance even though they’d lost.