Editing Averland (section)

==Averheim==
[[File:Averland Soldier-Adrian Smith.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A bit weird, somewhat obsessive on the point of honor, and surprisingly fussy about his uniform, but he gets the job done- and you won't find anyone over four feet tall who hates Greenskins more than he does.]]
The province capital, located along the south of the River Aver, has been a major city since the time of Sigmar. The Burgundian chieftan Siggurd decided to one day build a giant fortress, known as the Averburg, on the highest point of the city in an impressive fit of dick swinging, informing everyone -both the surrounding tribes and the Greenskins- that he and Sigmar were better than them. The Averburg has been updated and expanded over the centuries and its walls have yet to be breached, but the same cannot be said of the city it overlooks. During his invasion of Averland, Gorbad Ironclaw's forces assaulted the city and leveled practically everything up until the Plenzerplatz, the main square, at which point the Grand Count, his personal guards, and any remaining soldiers that could be rallied to fight managed to turn the tide of the battle and expel the Greenskins. A massive pillar of slain orc skulls was erected on the exact point at which the battle turned in favor of the defenders, a pillar that remains to this day as a permanent monument to the bloody victory. Averheim was rebuilt quickly, but the slaughtered population could not be replaced so easily, and the city is still smaller than it might have been had the orcs been routed earlier.

Despite this blow to its population and infrastructure, Averheim is still an important city in the empire as a major regional river port and as the hub of much of Averland's expansive and highly lucrative cattle industry. Multiple merchants guilds also inhabit the city, and a fairly notable part of the population are from noble houses, who control parts of the city and administer their estates from within its walls. The city is the de jure owned and ruled by the Leitdorfs, who were until recently the ruling family of the province as well, but since [[Marius Leitdorf|Leitdorf's]] death without an heir, the control of both the province and city has been up in the air as all the noble houses play a complex political game within themselves and with each other to decide who will be the next [[Elector Count]], and whether the new Count will also inherit the other vacant Leitdorf titles.