Though a majority of the Demon Wastes’ denizens are devoted to fiends, some serve other creatures of evil. Rotting Blade is a tiny settlement set in the permanent gloom of the Shadowcrags, where a powerful night hag named Vraria rules over a community of kobolds, orcs, and humans captured from the Eldeen Reaches and the Shadow Marches. Subjected to unspeakable cruelty and driven mad by the taint of the Wastes, these thralls have come to regard the hag as their queen and mistress. She uses them for labor, sport, and (when their bodies give out) food for their fellows. To maintain Rotting Blade’s population, her servants range beyond the Wastes, rounding up new batches of slaves to subject to their mistress’s spite.
Rotting Blade is little more than a collection of hovels in a barren landscape. Vraria lurks out of sight when visitors arrive, emerging with her servants in the hope of overwhelming intruders and adding them to her stable of slaves.