City - Crow's Gate Old City - City of Greyhawk

City - Crow's Gate Old City - City of Greyhawk

Old City, once it was the city, it was Greyhawk, but those days are long gone. Now Old City is a corpse rotting in the sun, left abandoned to decay and infested with those surviving within its carcase.

Crow's Gate is the pathway to an ancient manor within the heart of the city. The gate is left closed and a guardsman posted. Beyond the gate is the home of the Old City Judge of Measure and Balance. Galba the Bald is the current judge, He can trace his lineage to the very beginning of the city. He is a pureblood Suel and very proud of that fact.

Originally the Judge of Measure and Balance was an important position among the merchants of the city and the wealth it brought allowed those judges to build great mansions and estates which later became the High Quarter when the vast outer walls of the city swallowed the hills which surrounded Old City.

As  the power of those judges increased their role changed and they became judges of life and death, freedom, slavery and imprisonment. As Old City became old, the first barracks became the city prison, the great storehouses became the infamous Workhouse. Those that could moved from Old City to the new quarters which evolved beyond the original walls. Old City became grim, its buildings fell to disrepair, it began to die.

The position of Judge no longer brought great wealth. Those falling under the power of the judge were the poor, the desperate, the destitute. Galba receives his pay from the Oligrachs of the city, but he is not one of the wealthy and his power stops at the ancient walls. He is a harsh judge and enjoys the despair and fear of those who fall under his sway. The Workhouse is considered a living Hell and the prison a sample of what the Hells may be like.