Ched Nasad

The City of Shimmering Webs, Ched Nasad, was constructed in a cavern shaped like a cone with the tip pointing downwards. The various levels and the more influential buildings in the city are made out of extra thick spiderweb strands, thus giving the city its name. It was not featured prominently in the Realms until the War of the Spider Queen series, where duergar mercenaries in the employ of the Vhaeraunite group Jaezred Chaulssin, inadverdantly destroyed it through copious use of stonefire bombs, which were much more effective on the webs that held it together than on stone. Out of the 30,000 drow who made up the city's population, around 3,000 survived the disaster.

Ched Nasad was founded by the noble house Nasadra. Ched Nasad was a powerful drow city in the Underdark which was overthrown by the machinations of Jaezred Chaulssin during the War of the Spider Queen. The Jaezred Chaulssin tried to rebuild the city in the image of a non-matriarchal society but the death of their god Vhaeraun caused them to abandon this tactic and allow the return of Lolth-worshipping drow, though the organization still holds much power over the place.

The city is found in the Middle Northdark region and is also known as the City of Shimmering Webs as it was formerly suspended on more than a hundred calcified webs.