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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 2613133" data-attributes="member: 11574">Campaign History part 2. DwarvenDwarven oral history of recent events as transcribed by Gurnt Stonestrike of Clan Red Granite.Hammer-4-19    So it was spoken, so it shall be written. Forever a day of sadness amongst the noble proud, remembered as the day the earth screamed. Our Grandfathers felt the earth shake as the ground wailed in pain beneath the oppressor's feet. Giant's among giants had come to do battle with our noble race. The cowards they were agreed to meet the noble upon the field of battle, only to crack the very foundation of the ground and split our mountain home. The proud refused to concede and fought the titans anyway. Their sacrifice saved the lives of many a dwarf that day. However victory would not be on the plate of the noble that day. The noble proud suspect the elves with all of their sorcery or the humans with their reckless abandon. Especially since neither came to the defense of our home when we stood against the titans.Anvil-11-19    So it was spoken, so it shall be written.Forced to dig alongside our cousins the gnomes for decades. The noble sought a way to free us from the titan's grip. Prayers to Moradin and Ummtharr were prepared, wives and children were informed. At high sun the hymn was sung and the proud were delivered unto freedom when the earth sang and opened it's heart to the noble proud. The earth never trembled in elation so great as that day, when five thousand noble proud servants of the earth strode forth with their gnome cousins and into the mountain. When the earth's song was over it's mouth closed and sealed the noble proud away from the titans. The titans shouts of anger were still heard days after the noble proud were beyond even their long grasp.Sparking Mithral-2-29    So it was spoken, so it shall be written.Centuries of crossing the gut of the earth had brought distrust within the gnome stragglers. So filled with lust for the surface they were, that they ever sought out arteries that flowed towards the surface. The noble proud would not be dissuaded by the weak of faith and marched ever valiantly at the goal Moradin set for the noble proud. This day we call The Fissure. A black rock was discovered unlike any the noble proud had or shall ever hope to see. The noble conferred and agreed it was not the sign set forth by Moradin, the noble proud continued without giving the strange rock a second thought. The devious gnomes however thought themselves better than the noble proud, thought their gods greater than Moradin who had given them their freedom. They claimed the rock as proof of their god's power and refused to leave it's side. The noble proud left them there knowing they would follow eventually.Defender-9-2    So it was spoken, so it shall be written.Day of Treachery. Two more centuries of marching had brought us within sight of our destination. The proud had gone forth to the artery's mouth and reported that the backbone the noble proud waited in would be able to provide ore and fire for hundreds of generations to come. But, somehow the gnomes had beaten us to our home. They sealed up the artery and enspelled the proud who were guarding the artery's mouth, and they were transformed into mockeries of the earth itself. They attacked their former families and the artery began to collapse around the noble proud. With heavy hearts and a fire that that from that day would forever be lit in the forge of the noble's hearts, we retreated. Clang-1-1    So it was spoken, so it shall be written.The new year brought with it a new chance, Moradin had led us to an alternate artery one far to the north and west of our home. Cold to the skin, but warm to the faith. The noble proud set about immediately building the finest of homes, every detail was checked thrice and within the year what was five thousand built a home for ten thousand. Farms were built and armies were trained. No longer the noble proud, the Citadel of Frostforge became our resting destination, but it will not be our final destination.Three centuries of rebuilding what the titans took from us and searching for the dishonorable and treacherous gnomes have led us to speculate they still hide. We will find them, and we will take back what was ours. We search tirelessly for the home that was taken from us, we search endlessly for an enemy that will meet the cleaving end of a Frostforge Ax.Next will be the giant's history.</blockquote>

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