Blackshade

Blackshade was a province in Skanor. It's capital city was also called Blackshade, hence the province's name. While Blackshade was the capital of the province, Edorn, the Mountain City, had become a bigger and more prosperous city of trade and other dealings in the last few decades of the 4th century.

The orcs had territory to the north, and travellers heading up there were wary and tended to be well-prepared for the dangers found out there. The ones that survived the journey, at least.