Palischuk

Palischuk was a city in the northeastern corner of Vaasa.

Geography
The city was located west of the Galena Mountains in Northern Vaasa, almost due east of the ruins of Castle Perilous.

The city lay upon the northern trade routes of Vaasa that connected Maur-Eturo and the south with Ironspur and points in the far north.

History
Palischuk was a fortress city that was ruined by the depredations of Zhengyi the Witch King in the, but was subsequently claimed and rebuilt by the half-orcs of the surrounding areas as their own space.

Trade and relations
After Palischuk was rebuilt and reoccupied, its inhabitants succeeded in befriending other nearby settlements. As a result, around 1372 DR, it traded with Bloodstone Gate, Darmshall, and neighboring dwarven communities harmoniously, but humans still dealt with it cautiously.

As of the, Palischuk had grown to a city of over 10,000, the great majority of whom were still half-orcs. Their mercantile businesses served as the economic engine that underlay much of Vaasa's economy, and they had become much more accepted as a vital part of Vaasan society.

Inhabitants
The majority of its residents were half-orc.

In the just 1 in 5 of the local population was human.

Notable Inhabitants

 * Arrayan Faylin
 * Olgerkhan
 * Wingham

Notable Locations

 * Site of Weird Wingham's Wacky Weapon Wielders' caravan: This was where Wingham's merchant caravan wagons settled a few times each year, around 1368 DR.


 * Palischuk was the largest major community in eastern Vaasa and was connected by roads with Maur-Eturo to the south, Ironspur, Ishe and Frohm's Rest in the north and The Reach trail to the west.

Spelling
In R.A. Salvatore's works, Promise of the Witch-King, Road of the Patriarch, and The Bloodstone Lands, the name of the settlement is spelled as Palishchuk, contrary to how is spelled in all other sources, even in maps in The Bloodstone Lands.