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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 4703283" data-attributes="member: 5948">Burok Torn is about both the dwarven city of the title, and a dark elven city that is locked in war with it.  I like the city in general a lot - there's a traumatised, battle-scarred air about it that appeals to me greatly - but the real nitty gritty of the history and culture revolves around an event in the Scarred-Lands-specific Titanswar, which would be difficult to completely excise without somewhat lessening the flavour of the place.  Very usable if it's just going to be a spot on the map in your campaign world though, and the PCs don't expect to get involved in royal politics or deific history.Hollowfaust is a LN city dominated by a college of necromancers - the use of undead as labour and in war is routine, largely socially accepted and legally formalised.  It's a pretty nifty place and is not tied too deeply into the rest of the Scarred Lands mythos so ,should be easily co-optable into your homebrew setting, but depending on your world's death gods, good-aligned churches, and their views on such things, it may be problematic from a worldbuilding consistency point of view.Mithril is an island fortress-city ruled by paladins, and dominated by a monstrously huge mithril golem that stands inert (not destroyed, but currently inactive) over the place.  The built-in bad guy is rather lame and cookie-cutterish, but he's easily removed and replaced with someone more interesting and campaign-specific.  This one is quite modular and useful.Shelzar is a big, vaguely Arabic-flavoured cesspit of vice and intrigue, but is not as interesting as it sounds.  There's not much that's too Scarred-Lands-specific here, so it's probably a useful book to detail a dot on the map when your high-level players happen to teleport there on a whim and you haven't detailed the place, but I don't find Shelzar very exciting to be honest - a bit lacking in originality and catchy hooks.</blockquote>

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