Lost within the grey murk of the Realm of Shadow lies Misthåvn, a sunken and lawless port that appears on no honest chart. Half-drowned and shrouded in perpetual fog, it is a haven for the discarded and the damned, chief among them the exiled kindreds of the Idoneth Deepkin, those cast out from the enclaves of the deep for crimes their soul-hungry cousins would not name aloud.
Here among the flooded streets and barnacled towers, no law holds but the sharpness of one's blade and the depth of one's purse. Smugglers, pirates, and soul-traffickers ply their trades in the mist, and the Idoneth exiles hunt the spirits of the desperate to sustain the flicker of life within them. It is said the city itself drifts, never quite in the same place twice, hidden by the treacherous magic of Ulgu from those who would seek to burn it down.
Misthåvn keeps its secrets jealously, for secrets are its only true currency. Deals struck here are sealed in shadow and broken as easily; a name spoken in the wrong tavern can vanish a soul into the black water forever. Even the enclave-lords of the deep tolerate the port's existence, for it is useful to have a place beyond all reckoning where the unspeakable may be arranged. In the drowned dark of the Mistlands, everything is for sale, and everyone is prey.