Post by ConcreteSequential on Jan 23, 2009 15:49:29 GMT -5
Oghrann
This realm lay in what is now the Plain of Tun and the surrounding mountain ranges. It claimed the Helbryn as its own, a hunting-range north of the Laurvinlur, the River Reaching, east of present-day Hills Edge. The Helbryn was a great open area of rolling plains, extending north to the elven lands of Evereska.
Oghrann was founded by the mighty warrior Thordbard Firebeard, who was its first and greatest king. Over the years that followed, beset on all sides by enemies- lizard men,nomadic human tribes, wemics, and the usual bugbears, trolls, and goblin-kin races- the kingdom declined. The realm was swept away by disease and war even before the more northerly kingdoms of the Stout Folk fell.
Oghrann encompassed all of the great circle of Tunland and the mountain ranges that surrounded it: the Stormhorns on the east, and the Sunset Mountains, Far Hills, and Easting Peaks on the west. These mountains were known to the dwarves of the time collectively as 'ol Araubarak: the Great Shield.
Thordbard established regular mounted patrols into the Helbryn, although he forbade settlement there. It was to be the hunting-preserve of the kingdom, whereas Tun Plain was to be its livestock farm. The Helbryn ran north-west from Wind Peak to The Winding Water, taking in Skull Wood, the woodland northwest of present-day Hill's Edge. The Wind Peak is the westernmost peak of the Sunset Mountains, just north of present day Corm Orp; it is named for a hole in its spire through which the wind howls and whistles. However, the border skirted Boareskyr's Forest, the large woodland further northwest, known to the dwarves as Wurgymvudd, or Ugly-Wood because of the large numbers of evil and rapacious creatures that roamed there.
The Helbryn's border followed the Winding Water northeast as far as the Tor of Swords, which stands just east of the most northerly of the easternmost loops that the ever-twisting river makes, roughly north-northwest of the Hill of Lost Souls. From that tor, the dwarves' hunting preserve ran westwards to the ever-expanding Anauroch, skirting Evereska by a day's ride, and followed the edge of the sands southeast to the mountains of the kingdom proper, encompassing all the rolling plains within an area as large as Oghrann itself.
Such a large territory was impossible to defend, especially for only 26,000 dwarves, at most. It was soon lost. The realm's very existence is forgotten even by most dwarven elders, to say nothing of human sages.
The Sign of the Realm can be found in deep caverns in the Sunset Mountains. It can also be found here and there in the Stormhorns, such as Dark Wind Pass, a high and perilous trail known to few beings alive today, that crosses the Stormhorns by way of old tunnels cut by the dwarves, east of Skull Crag. It is a curved hunting horn, open end to the left, with a six-pointed star above it, and another beneath it.
* The remnants of the dwarves of Oghrann dwell in subterranean "wells" beneath the Far Hills, and number some 7,000 in all.
The kingdom of Oghrann was established beneath the Plains of Tun in -5125 DR.
Oghrann fell in -3770 DR
Sources:
Dwarves Deep FR11
FR Races of Faerun PG 18
This realm lay in what is now the Plain of Tun and the surrounding mountain ranges. It claimed the Helbryn as its own, a hunting-range north of the Laurvinlur, the River Reaching, east of present-day Hills Edge. The Helbryn was a great open area of rolling plains, extending north to the elven lands of Evereska.
Oghrann was founded by the mighty warrior Thordbard Firebeard, who was its first and greatest king. Over the years that followed, beset on all sides by enemies- lizard men,nomadic human tribes, wemics, and the usual bugbears, trolls, and goblin-kin races- the kingdom declined. The realm was swept away by disease and war even before the more northerly kingdoms of the Stout Folk fell.
Oghrann encompassed all of the great circle of Tunland and the mountain ranges that surrounded it: the Stormhorns on the east, and the Sunset Mountains, Far Hills, and Easting Peaks on the west. These mountains were known to the dwarves of the time collectively as 'ol Araubarak: the Great Shield.
Thordbard established regular mounted patrols into the Helbryn, although he forbade settlement there. It was to be the hunting-preserve of the kingdom, whereas Tun Plain was to be its livestock farm. The Helbryn ran north-west from Wind Peak to The Winding Water, taking in Skull Wood, the woodland northwest of present-day Hill's Edge. The Wind Peak is the westernmost peak of the Sunset Mountains, just north of present day Corm Orp; it is named for a hole in its spire through which the wind howls and whistles. However, the border skirted Boareskyr's Forest, the large woodland further northwest, known to the dwarves as Wurgymvudd, or Ugly-Wood because of the large numbers of evil and rapacious creatures that roamed there.
The Helbryn's border followed the Winding Water northeast as far as the Tor of Swords, which stands just east of the most northerly of the easternmost loops that the ever-twisting river makes, roughly north-northwest of the Hill of Lost Souls. From that tor, the dwarves' hunting preserve ran westwards to the ever-expanding Anauroch, skirting Evereska by a day's ride, and followed the edge of the sands southeast to the mountains of the kingdom proper, encompassing all the rolling plains within an area as large as Oghrann itself.
Such a large territory was impossible to defend, especially for only 26,000 dwarves, at most. It was soon lost. The realm's very existence is forgotten even by most dwarven elders, to say nothing of human sages.
The Sign of the Realm can be found in deep caverns in the Sunset Mountains. It can also be found here and there in the Stormhorns, such as Dark Wind Pass, a high and perilous trail known to few beings alive today, that crosses the Stormhorns by way of old tunnels cut by the dwarves, east of Skull Crag. It is a curved hunting horn, open end to the left, with a six-pointed star above it, and another beneath it.
* The remnants of the dwarves of Oghrann dwell in subterranean "wells" beneath the Far Hills, and number some 7,000 in all.
The kingdom of Oghrann was established beneath the Plains of Tun in -5125 DR.
Oghrann fell in -3770 DR
Sources:
Dwarves Deep FR11
FR Races of Faerun PG 18