Post by DM Leverage on Mar 23, 2012 3:59:28 GMT -5
Gracklstugh
On the southwest shore of the Darklake stands the duergar city of Gracklstugh, the City of Blades. This great, dismal warren is filled with the reek and smoke of foundries and armories. Gracklstugh is the capital of a duergar realm known as the Deepkingdom, a powerful Underdark nation that controls the tunnels and caverns for dozens of miles around. The gray dwarves possess one of the largest and best equipped armies in the North, surface or subsurface, but they are generally content to defend their own borders while pursuing wealth through industry and trade with other Underdark cultures.
The city of Gracklstugh is currently undergoing a period of severe civil unrest; the old king Tarngardt Steelshadow has just passed away. Tarngardt was quite old, but many of the leading lairds (high nobles) of the city suspect that his passing was unnaturally hastened by the Crown Prince Horgar Steelshadow. The derro savants who formerly ruled the city through the careful control of the king and the lairds have found that their subtle exercise of power no longer suffices to shape the course of events in the city. Horgar Steelshadow is quietly working to win the support of duergar princes long under the control of the savants, shaking off the whispers and charms of the city's secret masters. Horgar is considering whether or not the council of savants can be quickly and quietly made to disappear. At the same time, the savants are plotting the removal of the Crown Prince in order to reassert their control over the city.
Source: Forgotten Realms - The Silver Marches 3.5, pg 36
On the southwest shore of the Darklake stands the duergar city of Gracklstugh, the City of Blades. This great, dismal warren is filled with the reek and smoke of foundries and armories. Gracklstugh is the capital of a duergar realm known as the Deepkingdom, a powerful Underdark nation that controls the tunnels and caverns for dozens of miles around. The gray dwarves possess one of the largest and best equipped armies in the North, surface or subsurface, but they are generally content to defend their own borders while pursuing wealth through industry and trade with other Underdark cultures.
The city of Gracklstugh is currently undergoing a period of severe civil unrest; the old king Tarngardt Steelshadow has just passed away. Tarngardt was quite old, but many of the leading lairds (high nobles) of the city suspect that his passing was unnaturally hastened by the Crown Prince Horgar Steelshadow. The derro savants who formerly ruled the city through the careful control of the king and the lairds have found that their subtle exercise of power no longer suffices to shape the course of events in the city. Horgar Steelshadow is quietly working to win the support of duergar princes long under the control of the savants, shaking off the whispers and charms of the city's secret masters. Horgar is considering whether or not the council of savants can be quickly and quietly made to disappear. At the same time, the savants are plotting the removal of the Crown Prince in order to reassert their control over the city.
Source: Forgotten Realms - The Silver Marches 3.5, pg 36