Editing Dread Metrol (section)

==Part 4: Forces in Metrol==
Details the factions within the city, which the players are likely to end up working with or against.

===The Army===
The army of Metrol is an omnipresent force due to the siege, and is largely made up of civilian volunteers - or those who ''got'' volunteered by press-gangs. Since civilian volunteers and conscripts can't really be expected to stand up to an endless tide of the undead, the backbone of the city's army is in the Iron Tide. While the Iron Tide was once made up of elite soldiers and exceptional warforged troops, the horrors necessitated by the siege have caused the line between the two to blur. House Cannith, lacking a creation forge but knowing that being unable to keep their warforged fighting would likely mean the fall of the city, has fitted maimed soldiers with warforged grafts and repaired damaged warforged using alchemically infused organs and limbs to create creatures called the Reconstructed. These grafts are so extreme that it's often difficult to tell whether any given Reconstructed began life as flesh or as a warforged. While they serve in the army, there are always rumors that Lord Starrin d’Cannith has implanted subtle enchantments while working on the Iron Tide—and that should it ever suit his needs, the Gorgon could seize control of the soldiers.

Players could choose to work with the army, but as the army can never really win the siege there isn't much point to it. They're more likely to act as an obstacle of some kind, though they're even more likely to remain a largely background element while the players mostly interact with the other factions.

===Dragonmarked Houses===

===The Fifth Column===
Throughout the siege, there has been persistent rumors of a society of Karrnathi spies hidden within the city, working to undermine Metrol and destroy all its citizens hold dear. While it is likely that this "fifth column" is nothing more than a straw-man used by the Queen's Watch to justify raids since after four years any spies that were in the city would have almost certainly either been caught or achieved something significant, the DM might choose otherwise.

===The Queen's Watch===

===The Unbroken===