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 largest major community in eastern Vaasa, the city lay upon the northern trade routes that connected Maur-Eturo and the south with Ironspur, Ishe, and Frohm's Rest in the far north and The Reach trail to the west.

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.

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.

Palischuk was absorbed into the Kingdom of Bloodstone sometime in the late 14th Century DR. It was then conquered by the Warlock Knights of Vaasa sometime in the 1460s DR.

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. At this time, the city was ruled by Knight-Vindicator Mansard Kanaoth, the only half-orc on the Ironfell Council of the Warlock Knights.

Inhabitants
The majority of its residents were half-orc or orc. In the, just 1 in 5 of the local population was human.

As of 1479 DR, many of the half-orcs of Palischuk were practicing Zhengyian blood magic.

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.

Notable Inhabitants

 * Arrayan Faylin
 * Olgerkhan
 * Wingham

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 it is spelled in all other sources, even in maps in The Bloodstone Lands.