Ashenbend is a city of moderate size for the foglands, located in the north-eastern part of the region, between Deadfall and Flatvayne. Its name is quite literal, as it is a city located where the road bends and where the land is ash-colored and quite fertile.
Ashenbend is quite famous as The Unwalled City, whose improbable existence is the subjet of many a debate in the Foglands. The story goes that over the last century, its citizens tried to wall the city four times and that after every attempt, as soon as the wall was completed, it was found in rubbles the next morning. Yet strangely, nothing ever happened ot the town itself (other than the unrelated, strange events that may occur in the foglands). As a matter of fact, nothing has ever happened to Ashenbend itself. Every time a group was rumored to prepare a raid, it seemed to never reach the city. Every time political dissent brewed in the city, it eventually smoothed over.
Ashenbend is thought to have the lowest number of birth mortality, or maybe its people are just more fertile? The fact is, the city crawls with happy, healthy children. Its citizen are known for their child-at-heart mentality, completely at odds with the rest of their Foglander attitudes. Slightly more supersticious than the average Foglander, they are known to carry around pocket-sized dolls fashioned in their image, the reasons for which stem from an old local folklore.