The Vast in human hands

UMANS, came by ship from the crowded southern lands around The Sea of Fallen Stars, and began to settle south of the Fire River.

The weakened dwarves retreated east and oversea southwards. Tuir was the last Deep King to claim the surface lands or even to be known of there. If an organised dwarven kingdom still exists in the area, it must be deep and quiet indeed.

Humans spread rapidly across the Vast, often clashing with orcs and the wild creatures of the mountains, mostly leucrotta and trolls, who had grown numerous preying upon wounded and dead dwarves and orcs all across the war-torn land. Men cleared land for farms, collecting fieldstone into low walls and building good roads. Adventuring bands built themselves small keeps, and collected ‘shield taxes’ from nearby farmers in return for a promise of protection against attack. Such defence (usually against orcs, trolls, and brigands) came by means of mounted warriors, bolstered by a minor battle-mage and a cleric of Tempus or Helm, but usually came too late.

In the small hamlet of Sarbreenar the Lightsblood family established themselves as the local lords and built themselves a fortified manor near the ruins of the old dwarvish watchtower that guarded the pass through the mountains. They were little more than robber barons but the sheep farmers and quarry workers in the area chose to accept their leadership against raiding orcs and trolls.

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