End of a forty year Dwarven rule

HE rule of the dwarves was short-lived, perhaps forty years in all. Orcs ‘breed like nothing else on or under Faerun; they put even hares to shame,’ as Elminster put it. All too soon, they rose again, and the power of the dwarves waned.

The Dwarven Kingdom finally ended in the Year of the Bloody Crown (649 DR) when, in a final assault, the orcish hordes attacked on the surface and their Drow allies co-ordinated their attack from below. The dwarves, under their king Tuir ‘Stonebeard,’ were defeated by orc bands at the fords of the Vesper, and in the dreadful battle of Deepfires. This infamous struggle raged though the underground ways of the mountains for twenty days and is still remembered in dwarven laments and sayings. One is: ‘I feel as if my axe was broken in the midst of Deepfires,’ often uttered by dwarves who are sick, depressed, or in pain.

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