This city was only built fifty years ago by Hang Bu Fang after the old city was totally
destroyed ten years previously in an internal power struggle. The city has been built up
by Hang Bu Fang since he was sent there to keep him away from the Ming Court. The city now
has a population of 500,000 people and is the biggest centre for slave trading in the
Middle Kingdom.
Below ground level are the dungeons, storage for the slaves and winter home for farm
animals. Above the ground, the first three levels are carved from a solid block of stone.
These levels contain everything you would expect to find in a city of this size. Living
quarters, shops, factories, schools etc. Hel Churl is renown for having everything
non-magical you could wish to buy. The outer wall is thirty feet thick, broken only by a
main gate. Atop all of this is the nobles' city, also known as the Palace of a Thousand
Spires. This is a very extravagant area , seemingly random in nature, which reputedly has
a thousand pagodas and hundreds of gardens and pools. The nobility of Hel Churl live in
grand style. Dominating the whole area and its centre is the largest pagoda. It has a
large crystal for its roof and many mirrors down its side. (The mirrors reflect inwards.)
The pagoda collects sunlight and pipes it down to the city below.
Although the city has always had close ties with the Ming Empire, it is officially
neutral.
They have been at loggerheads with Wu Tze Lee ever since the Emperor sent Hung Bu Fang
here. Now with the official declaration that Wu Tze Lee is a non-existent city. The forces
of Hel Churl are being readied to attack and destroy Wu Tze Lee. This will allow them to
gain total domination of the Shan Peninsula.
