Hewa (pronounced HE-wah) is a city on the Aur River south of Khapesh. It is the only major permanent settlement between Akhmis in the north and Tantamani in the south on the shores of Lake Nulukkhaz. Once under Khapeshan control, Hewa has been independent since the Time of the Empty Throne in the eighth millennium, when the kingdom lost control of its southern territories. Still, its people remain culturally very much influenced by the nation to the north, worshiping the same gods, wearing similar clothes, and eating similar foods. Traders voyaging up and down the Aur River continue to make stops at Hewa to rest and resupply.
Most of Hewa's permanent population is human, but sizable numbers of Akwarai dwarves regularly visit the city as well. In more recent decades after the rise of the undead in Oscan, tribes of Bleached Bone gnolls who found themselves forced out of their lands farther south have begun to congregate in the foothills of the Nekenher Mountains near Hewa as well.
Notable landmarks near Hewa include the Obelisk of Seven Hungers and the mausoleum of Iteru.