The city of Erlenbis, once a minor town on the fringes of the Shadow Woods noteworthy for nothing aside from being a small stopover between the human kingdoms and the realm of the wood elves. After the fall of the Dwarves of The Grey Peaks in their civil war adventurers came to strike out for the riches of the hills and the mountains. After the sun elves of Oraibus were conquered and enslaved and the moon elves of the now lost woods had their land razed around them the wild elves of the Shadow Woods became the last of the elven kingdoms. Then at last there was [i]Free City[/i] for Erlenbis is the last city of any note before the long trek south to reach the city of paladins overland. This has made the city into a hub of adventurers and travelers in the south.

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As you approach the city you will notice that there is no solid wall surrounding the city and is still caught between a growing town and city in size and demeanor there are few large buildings about and aside from main thoroughfares through it most roads and alleys are smaller and narrower now even large enough to allow two carts to pass side by side. It has the ever present buzz of a city though particularly in the burgeoning market where traders and tradesmen hark their wares to those passing by as well as the ever watchful guards of a city. Any who bother to look can instantly and easily pick out the handful of Iron Guard who reinforce the town guard to defend the city from bandits and raiders as well as maintain the law for the city is claimed by Kingdom of Vektis and swear fealty to Ironhold. 

At the town center there is a voice that rises above others, a man stands upon a cart armed and armored as a warrior espousing claims of human superiority to other sentient races. His primary target seems to be elves who he lambastes with every opportunity speaking of them as a degenerate race and that the fate met by the sun and moon elves is a fate all elves should meet. He is being watched carefully by a handful of nearby guards who are otherwise not intervening and his crowd is naturally composed almost entirely of humans with a handful standing near the cart clearly with him.