This city lies almost exactly in the centre of the Great Forest and some call it the 'Eye of the Forest', where, like the eye of the cyclone, all is calm. Formerly the captial of the Duchy of Talabecland, it now one of the more fiercely independent City States, determinedly clinging to its hard-won privileges and its own peculiar local customs. It was in this city that Dieter, the disgraced grandson of the Emperor Leopold, made his home after being exiled from Nuln and his descendants live here to this day.