Iron Halls

Founded in AM 1694 the Iron Halls is the largest dwarven kingdom. Although they have lost much of thier territory almost 500 years ago they are slowly reclaiming the surrounding mountains. The city itself is cut deep into the Aramac mountains.

History of the Iron Halls
The dwarves first moved from thier small communities to found a new mountain kingdom when the Kaznag clan began to unify all the seperate dwarven clans. They are now in control of the monarchy that rules the Iron Halls. Over 500 years after being founded the kingdom had spread from the black tooth mountains in the north to the terramar mountains in the south and helped provide military aid to the halflings and gnomes who lived nearby. They created much of the elaborate stonework in the human empire of Firyanar who they were allied with and fought beside in the War of the 2nd Alliance. In AS 1022 orc raiders stormed through the mountains and took much if the dwarven land in the north. The frost giants took the northern kingom of Kogan-san causing the keep there and the mines to be abandoned. Many refugees have fled south and are trying to rearm to take back their lost territory.

Modern Iron Halls
After the orc raids in 1022 the dwarven kingdom worked to rebuild. The city of the Iron Halls was never breeched. After taking in refugees from the surrounding land they worked with the human kingdom in the south to rebuild what was lost. A new canal was started in the mountain pass to the south to facilitate trade with Firyanar. While the King is patient and trying to restore order slowly there is a faction led by the refugees from Kogan-san who are militant and want to lead a campaign to retake the cities in the north and reopen the mines there. Currently the dwarves are importing labor from the human kingdom to help rebuild as well as a small number of warforged from the city of Isidore in the northern mountains. The dwarves are rebuilding their economy by exporting raw materials, mainly stone, metal and gems to the rapidly expanding human kingdom as well as providing land for the new canal.