I'm reading the adventure path Council of Thieves by Paizo and am trying to imagine it in Warhammer and set it in the old world. The adventures take place in a city called Westcrown, which has an obvious "infernal" flavour to it. In Warhammer, I'm guessing Slaanesh would probably be the most likely candidate for influencing a city's nobles and government, but is there anybody who knows of a city like this, there chaos activity is more rampant and in a sense, even accepted sometimes?

well, there would be Praag, which was overrun by a deamonic horde quite a time ago, but the city is still tainted by chaos. i read something about the chaos gods shifting some buildings in the city to actually have limbs and sh*t ;-)

but i would play it a little more subtle, if it should be an influence thing, not an obvious thing.

praag is located in kislev, the very north actually. kislev is often under attack of norscan pillagers and praag is a heavy target aswell since it was actually once taken. the story is a quite nice one, but i don't remeber which book i read it in.

i think it was either the liber extatica, omens of war or the book of grudges. sry for my bad memory!

Yeah I knew about Praag and it's fate after the storm of chaos. That might work if I can find enough source material for the city.

there is a very nice map on gitzman's gallery and i used Praag as a quest city in my campaign lately.

which kind of details do you need? maybe i have some prepared, would just need to translate them to english for you, would not be a problem!

Wasn't one of the citys in bretonnia completely overrun by strange mutations and undead?

I have to check my 2nd Edition stuff. I think it was there in the bretonnia source book.

In the books "Sword of Justice" and "Sword of Vengeance" by Chris Wraight it is suggested that Averheim has a feeling of 'wrongness' about it. The history of Mad Elector Counts helps. It is something which is best played fairly subtly. The fact that Averland is a wealthy province which is, in theory at least, a long way from the threat of chaos can be used to make the locals appear to be very self satisfied and self indulgent. To a battle hardened northerner even the innocent will come across like disciples of Slaanesh. You can use this mask of superficial corruption to hide some real threats and also to tempt your characters into some dodgy behavior.

Captain Fluffy, do you mean Averland? Not sure where Averheim is.

Also the 2nd edition book on Kislev has a tonne of information on Praag.

Superchunk said:

Averheim is the capital of Averland. It's at the north west end of the province (ie further away from Black Fire Pass and closer to Nuln).

In the 2nd Edition source book for Bretonnia there is the city and province Mousillion described. Some of the rulers and knights there are undead, some are chaos knights and some are even human but all wear black armour as to show no weakness against each other. The people have a very high mutation rate with not so much witch hunters entering the province. Its neigbours fearing the province and building a ring of watch towers around it.

So it is some kind of kreepy City where you actually can and go make something but where death stalks the night.

"Knights of the Grail" p.84.

The city is close to the coast, so maybe the adventures survive a ship sinking and then are washed into the swamps of Mouisillion.

The Province was also the setting for two battles in the old Fantasy PC game, Dark Omen. Played it three times and bombed everything with my imperial mortar.

Nice, thanks for the ideas guys. I think Praag is still a better fit for the campaign I have planned, but Mousillon was a close second!