Norgate

Norgate is the northernmost city in Thorodon, being known as a walled city and the very mysterious capital city of the Mistlands.

Foundation
There are record about the city of Norgate existing since before magic (B.M.) but most of those are lost and just indicate it was a fishing town that helped Point Crest. The city started to develop more as soon as the North-South Exodus started, and thousands of people came to live in Norgate. As the Mistlands were always a very hostile area, due to weather conditions, the cities near the sea could survive better. During the 13th century, when Merlin established his base in Krust (Point-Crest), Norgate started to develop but it still was an unnamed fish town. Only by the end of the 17th Century, when Merlin declared Centralia as the capital of Thorodon, the city that is now Norgate started to be actually worked on by Merlin himself. He required that walls were built all around the city, as a "test" for Centralia. Tall stone walls were built all around the city and only one gate was built. From there on, the city was named Norgate, the gate of the north. Merlin invested heavily on ballistic material in the inside of the city, and to this day the city is not only a mystery as it is also forbidden for uninvited visitors. This fact made the city become a very unnatractive city for business, what was later on passed to Crossroads.