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Nararyr, called the City of the Dead, is a cold realm carved into the surface of the Frozen Sea and protected by a frozen moat of ice from the River Styx. Naratyr's icy architecture is a frigid necropolis of tall mausoleums, towering funeral obelisks, crypt parapets, and carpets woven of hair removed from the thousands of unquiet dead that reside in Naratyr. The city's warlike legions include retrievers, vampiric giants, and liches of all varieties. The rank and file of the population is mostly zombies, ghouls, wights, and other decaying corpses that move with a dark purpose.

The City of the Dead once served as Kiaransalee's winter capital, drawing an aristocracy of intelligent undead such as vampires, banshees, and specters - former thralls of Orcus - who wished ro ingratiate themselves to the layer's new goddess and carve out a place for themselves in her emerging planar empire. Now that the Prince of the Undead has returned, those inhabitants who have not fled for their lives attempt to betray one another to prove their loyalty to their original demonic patron, but it's unclear whether their efforts have had any effect. After an initial pogrom that cleansed the city of Kiaransalee's priestesses and powerful servants, Orcus has largely avoided Naratyr, allowing the place to fester in irs own purrid corruption.

Nearly all residents of Naratyr are dead, and a surprisingly large number of them are the reanimated corpses of drow and driders formerly loyal to the Vengeful Banshee. Foremost among these creatures are the quth-maren, skin-stripped corpses who served as the facilitators of Kiaransalee's will. Those brave few who remain in Naratyr do so under magical disguise, keeping in contact with others of their kind positioned throughout the layer. Living creatures hoping to survive in Naratyr could do worse than seek succor from these disturbing creatures, whose thirst for vengeance is enough to make for unlikely alliances.

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