Moussillon has an evil reputation. 'The City of the Damned' some call it and, for those that live within its crumbling walls, the title must seem like an apt one. Here a once thriving and prosperous city has fallen to the ravages of nature or perhaps to those unnatural powers that delight in decay and pestilence. Originally, the city was not much different from others in Bretonnia, but a series of earthquakes some 50-odd years ago reduced even the houses of the rich to crumbling ruins. Worse still, it was discovered shortly afterwards that the whole area was slowly sinking and now a miasma of despair hangs over the city, a stinking cloud of pestilence that makes it one of the most unhealthy places to live in the entire world.