Wolkuta

A Dwarven Hold, reckoned by many to be the oldest still in existence, though it holds records of still earlier holds. 
Wolkuta is located in a mountainous region in Albion, north of Jagodina on a peninsula extending into the sea towards Clachland. The Wolkan Dwarves are a hardy people who have long made their living producing fine wooden goods for their human neighbors, and selling steel to the Zells who frequently passed by.
This all changed with the ascent of Dahaka the Black, the first Zellish Queen of Albion. Famed for her violent temper, great size and terrifying strength, to say nothing of her Zellish behavior (drinking, fighting, promiscuity, not wearing shoes, etc) 
Dahaka, being a Zell herself, demanded that the discount granted to the royal family be extended to all Zells of the Tribe of Dakon – which to be fair, is not that outrageous of a demand by Albish legal standards, and well within her rights. The Wolkans, who had been selling to the royal family at a loss for decades as a sort of honorable bribe, refused. The Dakonats were their best customers, and if they offered them the same discount it would be their ruin.
Outraged at the perceived insult, Dahaka (who had no real understanding of the economy of scale) sent a host of men to seize Wolkuta and make it into a proper and subservient fiefdom.
Thus began the longest siege in history, lasting 90 years of periodic assaults, circumvolation and bombardment. Wolkuta was a very well defended fortress, with enormous stocks of foodstuffs and the means to produce more through various cunning artifices, from crab traps to trained hawks and mushroom farms. The Dwarves held the fortress for decades, and though they were eventually forced to sign a surrender by Dahaka's son Renn, the conditions of their defeat were so merciful as to essentially constitute victory, and the Dwarves of Wolkuta to this day are independent.
Category:Dwarves
Category:Cities
Category:Fortresses