The Fall of the North

The God War took a toll on the dwarfs’ ability to trust outsiders, diplomatic bonds fell. While it was a bitter and untrusting time, it was also a time of expansion into the north with great wealth in gold and gems and the founding of many new holds. Paying no heed to the warnings of the Warsmiths and Stone Priests they ventured into the lands about the Abyss.The evil work within the shattered lands tore from the depths to the surface the precious ores and gems.
The Winter War marked the first signs of the division of the dwarfs. After many weeks of deliberation the High King Odador the TwiceCrowned of Abkhazia announced that the dwarfs will march to the aid of the Elves and Men.
The northern dwarfs refused the order of the high king to join the war, secure in their wealthy and power. Without risking bloodshed, Odador could not demand them, but he would deal with that later.
Odador grand army was then under strength, demoralised and lacking faith in its king. The march on with defeat in their hearts and suffered huge losses, whole clans lost their strength and were absorbed into stronger clans to avoid extinction. An Archfeind tossed Odador from the walls of a Primovantian fortress. He lived for a few more hours, speaking of the duty now falling to his three sons. None would correct him, as all three of his sons had died in this war. Winter was eventually defeated, but the dwarfs sealed the gates for many decades to their kingless kingdom.
Winter was defeated but at a high cost, the loss of the whole Dwarven Royal line.
The northern dwarfs did not go unscathed and suffered greatly, Winter killed their surface meat and good leaf. The Winter War brought new terrors, breaking through from the top of the holds came the hordes of orcs and goblins, while from below assaulted the horrors of the Abyss.
Whole holds, clans and families were wiped out of existence in what is known as The Fall of the North. Only five holds survived Cwl Gen, Gars, Marn, Llyfanifeg and Rhyn Dufaris.
The Dwarven kind were all now kingless.
The southern dwarfs see the their northern kindred as betrayers and oath breakers, as they refused to join the war and blame them for the loss of the royal line.
The north hated and cursed the south for following a dumb order from an unwise king, leaving them friendless against a terrible for that would have devoured every dwarven hold, clan and kinship had it not been for the norths fighting strength.
They would never trust each other again, the Free Clans declared they will never be ruled by any southern king, lord or power,
The Dwarven kind were split asunder the Kingless Imperial Dwarfs and the fragmented Free Dwarfs.
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