Palischuk

Palischuk was a city in the northeastern corner of Vaasa.

Geography
The city was located just south of the banks of the towering ice river known as the Great Glacier and east of the ruins of Castle Perilous.

History
Palischuk was a ruined fortress city, rebuilt by half-orcs.

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 dwarves 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.