Blood Metal – Bane of the Orcs

HE mountain was to be the Orc Overking’s tomb. The dwarves had worked in secret with a few men and elves to develop a steel whose bite was poison to orcs, and with its aid broke out of the mountain caverns to ‘run in waist-high riot across the land,’ as the sage Fairin Icemantle wrote.

Fairin had grave misgivings about the use of the ‘orcslayer’ metal, fearing it would be only the first step in the making of many alloys harmful to other races – and bring, in the end, the ruin of all; his Treatise Against Blood-Metal survives in libraries in Sembia, Cormyr, Waterdeep (and perhaps still, in the ruins of Myth Drannor), giving the only first-hand account of the dwarven victories.

The secrets of making the deadly blades, and even just which mountain is Mount Grimmerfang, have been lost over the years. The few dwarven elders who still can identify the mountain do not speak of it to men. Some wise-heads believes it to be the first peak north and east of Mount Wolf.

Next – The Realm of Glimmering Swords

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