The Realm of Glimmering Swords

HE victorious dwarves drove the orcs far north and south into the mountain heights, claiming all The Vast as their own. ‘The Realm of Glimmering Swords,’ dwarven songs call it, though it may have had a less-grand, everyday name. They built many stone towers.

In the year 614DR, one-such tower was built on the site of present day Sarbreenar. It was built to guard the road through the mountains to Sarbreen – now renamed Ravens Bluff. Sarbreen translates from the original Dwarvish as The City of the Hammer. It was founded in the Year of the Hammer (611 DR) and completed in the Year of Ensorcelled Kings (616 DR).

The dwarves brought herds of goats, sheep, and shaggy cattle from south across The Inner Sea to roam the grasslands cleared by the orcs. The farmers in Sarbreenar still breed from this original stock. The dwarves occupied themselves in making fiery, legendary drinkables – and drinking them – and in making wondrous armour, finery, adornments, and weaponry with their metals. Little of this work would they part with in trade – just enough to buy more livestock. They also bought honey, which many dwarves love, especially in mead, from halflings who dwelt in woodlands here and there along the shores of The Inner Sea.

A few men came to live in the region at this time, notably the powerful mage known today as Maskyr the One-Eyed; his vale now is the site of the human village of Maskyr’s Eye.

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