The underground invasion of the Dwarves

N the end, the proud kingdoms of the orcs fell. Dwarves, mining in the mountains that bordered the Vast, came underground following veins of good ore, and met with the orcs in the lightless ways of the depths. After the initial skirmishes, the dwarven war councils determined that no orc who had seen a dwarf in the mines must be allowed to live, so that no word of any organised foe would get back to the orc chieftains. Lesser goblinkin (mainly goblins and kobolds) enslaved by the orcs to work the mines were ignored by the dwarves – so they never told their cruel orc masters of dwarven activities they saw, or aided their overseers when the dwarves came slaying.

The deaths of so many orcs in the mountains were ascribed to the great struggle for the throne of the Overking. The throne had been created by a monstrous orc known only as Ologh and left vacant when Tyrauroth, a great wyrm black dragon, slew him. Warring factions among the orcs fought each other up and down Vastar for eight blood-soaked years, until Grimmerfang defeated the last of his rivals and renamed Ologh’s court of the Hollow Mountain ‘Mount Grimmerfang.’

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