The Beginning

Within the southern reaches of the Misty Land region of the World of Tempests lies the dwarf civilization The Rack of Fights. The Rack lived in fear, hiding in the protective peaks of The Tall Spine mountain range. Afraid of venturing out, for beyond the Spine was The Revolting Walls, a truly sinister expanse of mountains.

But the dwarves did have some allies in the Misty Land. Including The Speechless Unions, a expansive human empire that lived far to the south. The Union's main holdings were located along the border of the badlands known as the Scorching Desert and the rolling hills of the scorching tropical savanna that is the Branded Hills. The Union's only water are the near dried up lakes like the foul Blueness of Disembowelers that dot the region and the small stream known as The Fold of Blots & it's sad small tributaries. Eventually the Fold joins up in the east with the much larger Orderfondle The Sooty Lonely Starvation, well past the terrifying Malicious Dunes that guard the Fold's northern border.

But to the south east, well below the Fold's joining with the Orderfondle and the elven lands of The Beloved Veneration, where the scorching Branded Hills give way to the leafy foliage of The Veiled Jungles was the legend of the Good Volcano. The volcano, nestled in the southern reaches of The Tooth of Trammels, a small mountain range, overlooked the tropical moist broadleaf jungle landscape. Add to that, there was legend of a small brook, The Untaimed Lion, that left the The Tooth of Trammels & headed south to join up with the Tinteaches The Itch of Belches a stream that headed further south out of the Misty Lands to other regions uncharted. It is this land the Union told the Rack about as a possible location to resettle to.

So, in the year 1050, during the Reign of Atir Inodlokum, a small band of dwarves, The Dagger of Vales, headed out to this otherwise unknown land, to tame it's wilds and claim it for the The Rack of Fights. These are their stories.