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<blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 3337420" data-attributes="member: 2012"><p><strong>The History of Anoria (cont.)</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>The History of Kul Moren</strong></span></p><p></p><p><strong>The Beginning</strong></p><p>Fifteen hundred years ago, the then young Kingdom of Abathnar was rent in twain by civil war. A powerful deepstone sorcerer named Riath sought to usurp the line of Kings and set up state paying homage to the evil powers of the Underearth. For many years the civil war continued until Kul the King challenged Riath to a single combat. Using all the wiles and treachery he could, Riath slew Kul but even as he lay dying the King threw his great axe at the wounded and retreating Riath, which cut the deepstone sorcerer’s head off.</p><p></p><p>So it was that the single combat resolved little and instead began the years of the Cold War of the Delves; the duergar followers of Riath took the deepest places underneath Fortress Mountain and made it their own realm, called Dvoriathroglim, while most of the remaining dwarven clans stayed in Abathnar. In the deep Underearth, the duergar followers of Riath allied themselves with that of bugbears, mountain orcs, ogres, and morlocks, waiting for a time to strike at Abathnar.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Great Delve War</strong></p><p>Though there was the appearance of peace, the next five hundred years were years of fear and great vigilance as both dwarven kingdoms amassed arms, trained their troops and waited for the inevitable day that war would return. And just as the dwarves of Abathnar feared, the duergar came upon them in open war (five hundred years ago) and the delves beneath the Kul Moren Mountains and Fortress Mountain resounded with the echoes of iron on iron and was illumined by fire and lightning. And so the Great Delve War continued for many hundreds of years; and after a time, the duergar gained advantage for they used the rich ores beneath Fortress Mountain to purchase slaves and hire mountain orc mercenaries to fight in their armies.</p><p></p><p>But this stratagem was to be the gray dwarves undoing for an escaped slave named Mór Mac Iomhair assembled a great host of the surface peoples who had suffered under the depredations of the duergar and their humanoid mercenaries. Having learned the Dwarven language and crafting of stone, Mór came to the Gates of Abathnar and asked the aid of the dwarven kingdom, for while her forces were valiant they had few weapons and little armor. And so it was that not only did King Kul XI give Mór the arms and armor she asked for, he also sent out a great army of his own dwarven elite too aid Mór, and dwarven guides to help her find the secret entrances to the duergar delves, deep under Fortress Mountain.</p><p></p><p>Sensing that many of the dwarven army had abandoned their places on the front lines, the duergar attacked the Gates of Abathnar with mighty savagery. Having foreseen this, King Kul XI himself led the advance guard of his depleted army against duergar and held them back in what is remembered in song as the Battle of Three Hundred Days. Many hundreds of dwarves died in that campaign, on both sides, and King Kul XI fell on the three hundredth day.</p><p></p><p>The Dwarven Kingdom of Abathnar fell, but the Town of Kul Moren would survive.</p><p></p><p>For Mór Mac Iomhair and her army’s attack on the duergar kingdom brought justice to the fallen of Lost Abathnar. Using the war arts of the masons King Kul XI had lent her, Mór smashed the Gates of Dvoriathroglim in a seven-month siege. The duergar were forced to flee their ancestral home and take up residence with the wild mountain orc tribes of Fortress Mountain.</p><p></p><p><strong>Kul Moren Today</strong></p><p>In the years following the end of war, the dwarves of the Town of Kul Moren (and many other dwarven communities) formally allied itself with Mor’s End. As the years past, a great friendship and brotherhood grew between the dwarves of the Kul Moren Mountains and the Anorians, until they became one land under the banner of the Independent Domain of Anoria. Just as Kul Moren has a human quarter, so too does Mor's End have a Dwarven Quarter, so that the bonds between the descendants of Kul and Mór shall never be sundered.</p><p></p><p>---------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><strong>The Cult of the Kul Kings</strong></p><p><strong>Domains:</strong> Law, Earth, and War.</p><p><strong>Alignment:</strong> Lawful Neutral</p><p><strong>Clerics:</strong> Knowledge (architecture & engineering) is available as a class skill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Knightfall, post: 3337420, member: 2012"] [b]The History of Anoria (cont.)[/b] [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]The History of Kul Moren[/B][/COLOR] [B]The Beginning[/B] Fifteen hundred years ago, the then young Kingdom of Abathnar was rent in twain by civil war. A powerful deepstone sorcerer named Riath sought to usurp the line of Kings and set up state paying homage to the evil powers of the Underearth. For many years the civil war continued until Kul the King challenged Riath to a single combat. Using all the wiles and treachery he could, Riath slew Kul but even as he lay dying the King threw his great axe at the wounded and retreating Riath, which cut the deepstone sorcerer’s head off. So it was that the single combat resolved little and instead began the years of the Cold War of the Delves; the duergar followers of Riath took the deepest places underneath Fortress Mountain and made it their own realm, called Dvoriathroglim, while most of the remaining dwarven clans stayed in Abathnar. In the deep Underearth, the duergar followers of Riath allied themselves with that of bugbears, mountain orcs, ogres, and morlocks, waiting for a time to strike at Abathnar. [B]The Great Delve War[/B] Though there was the appearance of peace, the next five hundred years were years of fear and great vigilance as both dwarven kingdoms amassed arms, trained their troops and waited for the inevitable day that war would return. And just as the dwarves of Abathnar feared, the duergar came upon them in open war (five hundred years ago) and the delves beneath the Kul Moren Mountains and Fortress Mountain resounded with the echoes of iron on iron and was illumined by fire and lightning. And so the Great Delve War continued for many hundreds of years; and after a time, the duergar gained advantage for they used the rich ores beneath Fortress Mountain to purchase slaves and hire mountain orc mercenaries to fight in their armies. But this stratagem was to be the gray dwarves undoing for an escaped slave named Mór Mac Iomhair assembled a great host of the surface peoples who had suffered under the depredations of the duergar and their humanoid mercenaries. Having learned the Dwarven language and crafting of stone, Mór came to the Gates of Abathnar and asked the aid of the dwarven kingdom, for while her forces were valiant they had few weapons and little armor. And so it was that not only did King Kul XI give Mór the arms and armor she asked for, he also sent out a great army of his own dwarven elite too aid Mór, and dwarven guides to help her find the secret entrances to the duergar delves, deep under Fortress Mountain. Sensing that many of the dwarven army had abandoned their places on the front lines, the duergar attacked the Gates of Abathnar with mighty savagery. Having foreseen this, King Kul XI himself led the advance guard of his depleted army against duergar and held them back in what is remembered in song as the Battle of Three Hundred Days. Many hundreds of dwarves died in that campaign, on both sides, and King Kul XI fell on the three hundredth day. The Dwarven Kingdom of Abathnar fell, but the Town of Kul Moren would survive. For Mór Mac Iomhair and her army’s attack on the duergar kingdom brought justice to the fallen of Lost Abathnar. Using the war arts of the masons King Kul XI had lent her, Mór smashed the Gates of Dvoriathroglim in a seven-month siege. The duergar were forced to flee their ancestral home and take up residence with the wild mountain orc tribes of Fortress Mountain. [B]Kul Moren Today[/B] In the years following the end of war, the dwarves of the Town of Kul Moren (and many other dwarven communities) formally allied itself with Mor’s End. As the years past, a great friendship and brotherhood grew between the dwarves of the Kul Moren Mountains and the Anorians, until they became one land under the banner of the Independent Domain of Anoria. Just as Kul Moren has a human quarter, so too does Mor's End have a Dwarven Quarter, so that the bonds between the descendants of Kul and Mór shall never be sundered. --------------------------------------------------------------- [B]The Cult of the Kul Kings[/B] [B]Domains:[/B] Law, Earth, and War. [B]Alignment:[/B] Lawful Neutral [B]Clerics:[/B] Knowledge (architecture & engineering) is available as a class skill. [/QUOTE]
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