Perhaps the only “Free City,” it unintentionally fell away from the empire due to its remoteness.  Once a trade city, things dried up when the dwarves closed themselves into their mountains and the elves withdrew as trade partners.  It lost its importance to the empire.  Now it is steadily “going native,” as the city’s culture absorbs more and more of the elven ways, and the ways of the barbarian tribes of the Northern Black Forest.

All races mix and mingle here – enterprising dwarves, gnomes & Halflings, Barbarians (elven, human, dwarven), elves, centaurs and the infrequent Fey Folk.  Life is slower, more natural.  If half-elves have a place they can call home, it’s Angel’s Reach.  It is also where many independent Rangers come from.  Plenty of adventure is to be had in the Northern Black Forest and foothills of the Eastern Alps.