Deep within the World’s Edge Mountains, the Dwarfs have endured for centuries. A hardy and industrious folk, Dwarfs are great artisans and craftsmen, particularly when it comes to metal and stone. These materials are the very things this ancient race values above all else, and their great mountain holds are wrought from them.

There are many mountain holds throughout the Old World, each housing numerous Dwarf clans. To the north, in the lofty peaks of the Black Mountains, lies Karak Hirn or Horn Hold, so-called because of the eerie blast caused by high winds racing through its largest caverns. Karak Kadrin, or Slayer Keep, rests upon the western fringe of the World’s Edge Mountains and is home to the Slayer cult, those Dwarfs shamed into seeking an honourable death in battle to atone for some past and unspeakable transgression.

But by far the greatest of the Dwarf holds, a nigh-impenetrable mountain bastion, is Karaz-a-Karak or Everpeak. This ancient capital of the Dwarf realms has never fallen, enduring since the elder days of the race. Presided over by High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer, greatest of all Dwarf Lords, the clans of Karaz-a-Karak can trace their lineage back to the great Ancestor Gods of the Dwarfs, Grungni, Grimnir, and Valaya. It is also the resting place of the venerated Dwarf artifacts, the Book of Remembering and the Great Book of Grudges, into which all the wrongs visited on the Dwarf race are carefully inscribed so that they might never be forgotten or forgiven.

Though the Dwarfs might be a pale shadow of what they once were, they endure like the very mountains of their realm. There are still many chapters to be written in their history, many deeds of heroism to be wrought, many battles to be fought, till the sun sets and the last entry in the Great Book of Grudges is written.