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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 1340071" data-attributes="member: 990">Kleavdstone At the halfway point on the road between Rindor and the Dwarven stronghold of Irongate lies the Kleavdstone.  It is a huge, basalt pillar that is spit from its tip, halfway down the stone, as though cleaved with a god's axe.  The Kleavedstone lies in no one's territory, yet the road and land about it remains completely clear for 1/4 mile in every direction.  Leaves from the surrounding forest do not blow onto the ground around the Kleavedstone.  No bird perches there.  No lizard suns itself on its black face.  Travellers take pains to arrange their journeys so that they do not need to rest near the Kleavdstone.  For the place has a forbidding aura about it. Legends say that during the long war between the dwarves and the people of Rindor, these lands were disputed territory.  Both peoples were heading toward complete destruction, and their gods grew tired of the childishness.  So Estrella, the patron goddess of Rindor, took a star from the heavens and forged it into an axe.  She gave this axe to Grimbold, god of the dwarves, and he hewed the land itself, right in the middle of the disputed territory.  A fountain of black molten rock errupted from the wound, and formed the Kleavdstone, which became the center of a no-man's land between the two peoples. Estrella and Grimbold commanded their peoples to cease hostilities, forbid them from settling within a day's walk of the stone in any direction. To this day, the dwarves and the Rindorians live in peace.  Though there is still no love lost between them, as yet none of them have been foolish enough to restart a conflict that the gods themselves ended. Next up:Bloodstone Caverns</blockquote>

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