In My Campaign: Kusseth Edition, Part 2

Hell, once the strongpoint of the Fell Peaks border and the capital of that nation, now a city under siege from within. Whatever Hell's original name was has been erased from history, at least from the Kusseth standpoint. Nonetheless, it is still a symbol of the power of the Fell-Humans and over the years since its conquering it has become apparent that the Fell-Humans would at one time pay nearly any cost to take their capital back from Kusseth. For decades after its taking, the city was kept under near constant siege by hordes of goblins and Fell-Humans. Cenn the Reaver had no true master, other than war, but the lords of Kusseth paid him well and once more brought him before the gates of the city he'd broken. It was there that he faced the goblin hordes and their masters once more, and once more he was triumphant. In the aftermath of that battle he swore that any nation seeking to take Hell from Kusseth by waging siege upon it would find him its enemy forever. He further swore that he and his entire army would abandon their base of operations deep within the Beast Lands and would drown the Peaks in the blood of the hell-kin should they try to take his city back with their armies. No true army has come against the now mundane gates of Hell since that battle. Despite Cenn's vow, malcontents within the black walls of Hell wage a constant war upon the Kussethian rulers of that place, and the reavers that ensure their rule. The reavers still within the walls are some of Cenn's most experienced troops, many of them Children of Volung that journeyed south with Volung himself when he left the North. The Kussethian politicians die by the dozens within the Hell but the reavers however have not suffered a single casualty since the day of Cenn's vow, but the revolutionaries dare not slay a reaver lest they invoke Cenn's wrath. Though the insurgents work to take back Hell, they work from within and do not use an army, thus they work within the tenets set down by Cenn in his vow and hope to forestall his rage if they should manage to finally wrest control back form Kusseth. The revolutionaries, despite their quest to take back their ancient capital, are something of an outcast sect among the greater Fell-Human population. After it was made apparent that Cenn would keep the city under Kusseth control as a matter of honor the rulers of the Fell Peaks decided that they had no use for Hell or the pointless attempts to take it back from Kusseth. The rebels working from within Hell differ in their ideology, obviously. Those Fell-Humans believe that something within the bowels of Hell fuels the taint flowing within their veins. When Hell was first built its foundations were laid down using black slabs of stone mined from the depths of the Necropolis in the east, stones that hummed with the tainted power of The Bleak Tyrant. The revolutionaries believe that the true destiny of their race can only be discovered by plumbing the depths of Hell and harnessing the power waiting for them in those ancient stones. Whether or not there is truth to this belief remains to be seen.