The dwarves are miners by nature and survivalists by calling. The most common clan on all the worlds is the ancient clan of Hammersmith. On some worlds, the Hammersmiths reign as overlords and on some worlds they vie for the top spot with rival clans. On Elkara, the Dwarves have no need of building huge mountain fasts, they reside in the open in full cities built of limestone and granite.
"Anvil's Beacon" is one such city, known to the dwarves as Weinhistegeit. The High King of all dwarves on Elkara reigned from his 100 story and 20-mile long Palace, the size being more for show and vanity's sake than for any practical reason. His 2,000 member family lived in the Palace with him, consisting of the royal government. He was a Hammersmith of the Steelseptre branch.
The very few wizards that had the great privilege to visit that world commented on the sheer size of Weinhistegeit, it had a population between 11-13 million dwarves with over 100,000 buildings. It was truly the power base of the dwarves on that world and some scholars speculated that the dwarves were actually born on that world in ages past from the giant body of Ysmir after Ysmir was slain by the gods for disobedience. The dwarves maintained a sizable temple at Tel-Natra (Neihesengeit to the dwarves) which, according to the dwarves, was the site of Ysmir's fall so it is probable that the dwarves had originated on this world before being scattered across the galaxy by groups of them wandering through the mage portals to other worlds.
Some Frost Elves (about a million souls) also dwelt on that world but they remained in their snowy forests and avoided the dwarves except when invaders portalled in. It is speculated that the Frost Elves were an early group to leave the elven home world because their language was the closest to the original Sylvianian dialect, which is now only spoken by their druids and priests on the other worlds.
It was in the year 2345 E.E. that the portals opened and the Orcs poured in with their siege machines and other instruments of war, 23 million Orcs to be exact, who were met with a long and bitter guerrilla war from the dwarves. After 34 years of bitter fighting, the 2 million remaining orcs surrendered and where allowed to build a city in the southern continent of Meerket. The Orc King swore fealty to the dwarven High King and agreed to send 500 orcs a year to the royal city as tribute. The dwarves educated them in the ways of engineering and civilization and then sent them back to Wrathmar, the Orcish city to make the Orcs more civilized. Weinhistegeit was put under siege 70 times during the war but it never fell because the dwarves had run an aquifer under the city to the mountains and an underground highway to the rich and protected farmland valleys to the east.
When the portals opened again and the barbarian clans of humans came in, the dwarves welcomed them with a warning: do not settle anywhere near our farmlands. The humans saw that they were outnumbered and they settled in the warmer, wetter regions where their crops and cattle laid the foundation for Therholme, the only human Kingdom. Many human merchants bought second homes in Weinhistegeit, which they called Witgenstien. The first King of Therholme laid the foundations of Aufwitgenstien in a lovely valley protected by high mountains. The city consisted of a High Castle, a large temple/church, a University and a population of 1 million living in uncut stone buildings. Years passed and the King bought more land from the High King of the dwarves and soon the human Kingdom owned much of the west. The human mages caused a bit of a stir for the dwarves at first because the mages could turn base metals into gold and silver but that was prohibited by law and treaty and the two sides simmered down again.
The portals opened again and 2 million trolls came into the world and began to settle randomly and everywhere, not bothering to farm or raise cattle, they preferred to raid and hunt, which made them a nuisance to all the races on the world. They were tolerated as long as they settled in the southern continent, which they did and the trolls united under Priest Mal'lark and built the step-temple city of Zorran. Eventually all the troll raiders moved to Zorran and began to build weapons of war and began to make plans with the Orcs, their natural allies.
3,000 Frost Elves under Timanius went to the southern continent and established Tel-Maxxar, a Glass Temple City that was meant to counter the evil influence of the trolls. Timanius as High Priest tried to encourage the trolls to come worship the gods of light there but the trolls were demon worshipers at heart and they caused great trouble for the elves with their gross idols and bloody rituals. The Elves under Timanius allied with Therholme and also with the sympathetic dwarves. The Orc King Saargon IVX broke off the treaty with the dwarves and ordered his mages to open portals to worlds with orcs on them. They found one world with an embattled band of 3 million Orcs so the King invited them in and offered them weapons and aid. The leaderless Orcs accepted the proposal and marched in. Once they came in, they betrayed the Orc King and took over the city and renamed it "Wrathiar" (city of the marching army) and Juians I came to the throne as the Orc King and immediately marched his forces on Tel-Maxxar and destroyed it utterly and killed all the elves within. The allied Kingdoms responded and marched on the Orcish city and burnt it to the ground and leveled it and exiled the Orcs (all of them) back through the portal to a burning desert world; Al-karath "desert of the burning tears" The allies marched on the trolls next and defeated their army and leveled Zorran except for the temple pyramids, which they buried with dirt and left them as hills. The defeated trolls where then exiled to Al-karath. The brutal swiftness of the allied campaign was simple: They had imported white dragons as battle-mounts and the battle-dragons roasted the Orc and troll armies where they stood, the allied armies simply did the "mop up".
After 300 years of peace, the Orcs, this time from an Orc homeworld (Asherath) invaded in force through many portals with 23 million Orcs and 11 million Ogres combined with 2 million black dragons destroyed Aufwitgenstien and destroyed Therholme, sending the humans running to the dwarves. The dwarves and humans fought back and after five years of indecisive battles, the war came to a draw and the Orcs and Ogres established Mar-Grothgar in the ruins of Therholme. The humans were given an unsettled province in the northeast and the human Kingdom of Therholme was rebuilt, with a brand new capital of Nueaufwitgenstien. Ossric I built huge walls, made them super thick and built the city in such a way where each district was walled off from each other to prevent from repeating the disaster that befell their original city.
The Orcs and their allies the Ogres began to infight with each other as soon as peace came and thanks to some trickery by the White Mages, the two groups declared war on each other and reduced each other to 2 million souls on both sides, and their black dragon rookeries were destroyed by dwarven special forces. The remaining black dragons were cut down by the wild white dragons. The dwarves and humans again planned a war and struck when the Orc King died. The invasion and destruction of Mar-Grothgar was utter and complete, not a single Orc or Ogre was left alive. After the place was cleansed of the black magicks, the humans re-established their domain and rebuilt the city. Now there were two human Kingdoms with the brother of the King ruling the newly re-established Kingdom in it's former home.
News came that a small clan of 300 Orcs had somehow escaped deportation and that they had holed themselves up in the mountains to the north in the icy caves. The humans sent riders to the Orc clan to ask them to swear fealty to either the human kingdoms or the dwarven kingdom but they promised to never make war and explained that they were all druids and only hunted and gathered roots and berries and didn't wield weapons and they worshiped the gods of nature. The human riders accepted their story and rode back to the King with the news.
The King was not happy with the report but he had more pressing matters to attend to than a band of Orcs. The Orc druids established Tel-Talmat as their mother temple deep in an ancient and holy forest. The Frost Elves sent priests to Tel-Talmat and soon a small city of elves and Orc druids formed. A starving band of sixty trolls came to the temple and begged entry and were accepted and same with a band of fifteen wandering ogres who, like the trolls, missed the day of doom because they were somewhere else during the war. Then a race everyone thought was extinct came to them: The long vanished Forest Gnomes, the Gnomes had actually been hiding their homes in the tree tops when they heard the news of the wars.
The small temple city had no wall and was protected from detection by a thick tangle of trees and plants surrounding the temple city. A band of 30 Frost Elves under Teldrian came to the city and built a resplendent glass temple of the light. The city slowly grew into a major city over time. In order to protect the city from a swift destruction, the priests and druids who ran the city consulted the white mages about the idea of "floating" the city into the sky. They agreed and the temple city was floated and a teleport pad was built on the replanted site so humanoids could freely enter and leave the city.
The end, for now.
"Anvil's Beacon" is one such city, known to the dwarves as Weinhistegeit. The High King of all dwarves on Elkara reigned from his 100 story and 20-mile long Palace, the size being more for show and vanity's sake than for any practical reason. His 2,000 member family lived in the Palace with him, consisting of the royal government. He was a Hammersmith of the Steelseptre branch.
The very few wizards that had the great privilege to visit that world commented on the sheer size of Weinhistegeit, it had a population between 11-13 million dwarves with over 100,000 buildings. It was truly the power base of the dwarves on that world and some scholars speculated that the dwarves were actually born on that world in ages past from the giant body of Ysmir after Ysmir was slain by the gods for disobedience. The dwarves maintained a sizable temple at Tel-Natra (Neihesengeit to the dwarves) which, according to the dwarves, was the site of Ysmir's fall so it is probable that the dwarves had originated on this world before being scattered across the galaxy by groups of them wandering through the mage portals to other worlds.
Some Frost Elves (about a million souls) also dwelt on that world but they remained in their snowy forests and avoided the dwarves except when invaders portalled in. It is speculated that the Frost Elves were an early group to leave the elven home world because their language was the closest to the original Sylvianian dialect, which is now only spoken by their druids and priests on the other worlds.
It was in the year 2345 E.E. that the portals opened and the Orcs poured in with their siege machines and other instruments of war, 23 million Orcs to be exact, who were met with a long and bitter guerrilla war from the dwarves. After 34 years of bitter fighting, the 2 million remaining orcs surrendered and where allowed to build a city in the southern continent of Meerket. The Orc King swore fealty to the dwarven High King and agreed to send 500 orcs a year to the royal city as tribute. The dwarves educated them in the ways of engineering and civilization and then sent them back to Wrathmar, the Orcish city to make the Orcs more civilized. Weinhistegeit was put under siege 70 times during the war but it never fell because the dwarves had run an aquifer under the city to the mountains and an underground highway to the rich and protected farmland valleys to the east.
When the portals opened again and the barbarian clans of humans came in, the dwarves welcomed them with a warning: do not settle anywhere near our farmlands. The humans saw that they were outnumbered and they settled in the warmer, wetter regions where their crops and cattle laid the foundation for Therholme, the only human Kingdom. Many human merchants bought second homes in Weinhistegeit, which they called Witgenstien. The first King of Therholme laid the foundations of Aufwitgenstien in a lovely valley protected by high mountains. The city consisted of a High Castle, a large temple/church, a University and a population of 1 million living in uncut stone buildings. Years passed and the King bought more land from the High King of the dwarves and soon the human Kingdom owned much of the west. The human mages caused a bit of a stir for the dwarves at first because the mages could turn base metals into gold and silver but that was prohibited by law and treaty and the two sides simmered down again.
The portals opened again and 2 million trolls came into the world and began to settle randomly and everywhere, not bothering to farm or raise cattle, they preferred to raid and hunt, which made them a nuisance to all the races on the world. They were tolerated as long as they settled in the southern continent, which they did and the trolls united under Priest Mal'lark and built the step-temple city of Zorran. Eventually all the troll raiders moved to Zorran and began to build weapons of war and began to make plans with the Orcs, their natural allies.
3,000 Frost Elves under Timanius went to the southern continent and established Tel-Maxxar, a Glass Temple City that was meant to counter the evil influence of the trolls. Timanius as High Priest tried to encourage the trolls to come worship the gods of light there but the trolls were demon worshipers at heart and they caused great trouble for the elves with their gross idols and bloody rituals. The Elves under Timanius allied with Therholme and also with the sympathetic dwarves. The Orc King Saargon IVX broke off the treaty with the dwarves and ordered his mages to open portals to worlds with orcs on them. They found one world with an embattled band of 3 million Orcs so the King invited them in and offered them weapons and aid. The leaderless Orcs accepted the proposal and marched in. Once they came in, they betrayed the Orc King and took over the city and renamed it "Wrathiar" (city of the marching army) and Juians I came to the throne as the Orc King and immediately marched his forces on Tel-Maxxar and destroyed it utterly and killed all the elves within. The allied Kingdoms responded and marched on the Orcish city and burnt it to the ground and leveled it and exiled the Orcs (all of them) back through the portal to a burning desert world; Al-karath "desert of the burning tears" The allies marched on the trolls next and defeated their army and leveled Zorran except for the temple pyramids, which they buried with dirt and left them as hills. The defeated trolls where then exiled to Al-karath. The brutal swiftness of the allied campaign was simple: They had imported white dragons as battle-mounts and the battle-dragons roasted the Orc and troll armies where they stood, the allied armies simply did the "mop up".
After 300 years of peace, the Orcs, this time from an Orc homeworld (Asherath) invaded in force through many portals with 23 million Orcs and 11 million Ogres combined with 2 million black dragons destroyed Aufwitgenstien and destroyed Therholme, sending the humans running to the dwarves. The dwarves and humans fought back and after five years of indecisive battles, the war came to a draw and the Orcs and Ogres established Mar-Grothgar in the ruins of Therholme. The humans were given an unsettled province in the northeast and the human Kingdom of Therholme was rebuilt, with a brand new capital of Nueaufwitgenstien. Ossric I built huge walls, made them super thick and built the city in such a way where each district was walled off from each other to prevent from repeating the disaster that befell their original city.
The Orcs and their allies the Ogres began to infight with each other as soon as peace came and thanks to some trickery by the White Mages, the two groups declared war on each other and reduced each other to 2 million souls on both sides, and their black dragon rookeries were destroyed by dwarven special forces. The remaining black dragons were cut down by the wild white dragons. The dwarves and humans again planned a war and struck when the Orc King died. The invasion and destruction of Mar-Grothgar was utter and complete, not a single Orc or Ogre was left alive. After the place was cleansed of the black magicks, the humans re-established their domain and rebuilt the city. Now there were two human Kingdoms with the brother of the King ruling the newly re-established Kingdom in it's former home.
News came that a small clan of 300 Orcs had somehow escaped deportation and that they had holed themselves up in the mountains to the north in the icy caves. The humans sent riders to the Orc clan to ask them to swear fealty to either the human kingdoms or the dwarven kingdom but they promised to never make war and explained that they were all druids and only hunted and gathered roots and berries and didn't wield weapons and they worshiped the gods of nature. The human riders accepted their story and rode back to the King with the news.
The King was not happy with the report but he had more pressing matters to attend to than a band of Orcs. The Orc druids established Tel-Talmat as their mother temple deep in an ancient and holy forest. The Frost Elves sent priests to Tel-Talmat and soon a small city of elves and Orc druids formed. A starving band of sixty trolls came to the temple and begged entry and were accepted and same with a band of fifteen wandering ogres who, like the trolls, missed the day of doom because they were somewhere else during the war. Then a race everyone thought was extinct came to them: The long vanished Forest Gnomes, the Gnomes had actually been hiding their homes in the tree tops when they heard the news of the wars.
The small temple city had no wall and was protected from detection by a thick tangle of trees and plants surrounding the temple city. A band of 30 Frost Elves under Teldrian came to the city and built a resplendent glass temple of the light. The city slowly grew into a major city over time. In order to protect the city from a swift destruction, the priests and druids who ran the city consulted the white mages about the idea of "floating" the city into the sky. They agreed and the temple city was floated and a teleport pad was built on the replanted site so humanoids could freely enter and leave the city.
The end, for now.
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