Niormyr clan

## The early years

The start of the first age of the world is set to be when the first Dwarves/first Humans appeared on the equator of the world (People believed it would've been around the Dim range). The date is unknown when the first dwarf breathed air on earth but it is thought it was around 500 years before the first stone was laid as a foundation for the stronghold of Karandrir.

In the early days it is said that the Dwarves born underneath the Everlight, were born with wisdom and care for what lived around them. This sense is said to have gathered them and made them stay close to each other, forming the first clan of the Dwarves. This clan is known as the **Niormyrs** named after Niormir the First. Niormir is said to be the first dwarf to have breathed air on the earth and feel the light of the Everlight upon his skin. The line of kings the Niormyrs would appoint would be from his bloodline.

## The founding of Karandrir

After wandering the plains of the world, the Niormyrs seatled above the largest lake of the world (what later would be known as The Lake of Five) and on the foot of a mountain range that spread long and wide from the western sea to the top of the lake (This range would be known later as The Mountains of Broken Stone). It is here at the the foot of the mountains, west of the Lake that Karandrir was build, a kingdom where the throne of the king would remain for the Niormyrs.

Karandrir was immense in size, at first it was but a kingdom that laid upon the side of a mountain, covering its slope. But as years passes the clan grew in size and so did the city. The city grew larger with new rings in the city and villages near the city especially close to the lake where many fishing hamlets were build.

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The city was especially well known in the first age for its beauty. Due to the crack of the world being so close to where the city was build, the nature that surrounded it was special and abnormal for the region. Appearing more like that of the equator of the world. It is said that a descendant of Niormir who lead the clan wanted to settle here due to the reason that it looked like the place where the dwarves first were awoken. That this was a sign that here their home would be.

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## The Children of Diuran

Over a two hundred years passed, where the kingdom of the Niormyrs grew. It was around the year 700 of the first age, that reigning king of the Niormyrs Diuran for saw the coming doom of growing to an uncontrollable size. Therefor he called upon his five children, to go and search for new lands where the descendants of Niormir could live.

The children of Diuran are:

1. Nior: oldest son of Nior, went north, following the river the ended on the north peak of the Lake Of Five.
2. Frundel: second son of Diuran, and twin brother of Nior, send east.
3. Eleandel: oldest girl of the childern and third child of Diuran, went south.
4. Kul: favorite and most promising son of king Diuran, Kul was send to the south-east to found a realm in the infested regions where deamons rained.
5. Sigfrud: the youngest of the childeren, tasked to found a new dwarven realm to the side of karandrir, in the Moutnains of Broken Stone.

All five of them were they given a corner of the holy warm lake that laid next to their realm that Diuran said "pointed in a direction the world wants us to explore" he told his sons and daughters that there would be great treasures waiting for them there at the end of their journey. The lake they set out from all was then named the Lake of Five by Diuran himself.

this moment in history was important as it was the beginning of the expansion but also the downfall of the dwarven kingdoms and their reign over the continent.