Blingdenstone

Blingdenstone, once called the City of Speaking Stones, is a deep gnome settlement founded more than two millennia ago. The deep gnomes, insular and secretive by nature, care little about histories and legacies, and thus most of the ruined city’s past is lost to time.

For centuries, Blingdenstone remained hidden and isolated from the rest of the Underdark, thanks to a combination of misdirection and magic. It wasn’t until they provided shelter to a drow exile named Drizzt Do’Urden that the deep gnomes began to take a more active interest in the world outside their caverns. Perceiving the threat the drow represented to all the peoples of the Underdark, the deep gnomes abandoned their isolation when they came to the defence of the dwarves of Mithril Hall, defeating an invading drow force from Menzoberranzan.

This alliance, however, would spell Blingdenstone’s doom. The vengeful drow bided their time, rebuilt their forces, and sent their armies out to strike back hard against the Svirfneblin, returning in great force to lay siege to Blingdenstone. The deep gnomes were no match for the drow army. Thousands of Svirfneblin were slaughtered, and those survivors who didn’t escape to Mithril Hall or the surface world were dragged back in chains to Menzoberranzan as slaves.

Within the past decade or so, the deep gnomes returned to reclaim, resettle, and rebuild their city. The ultimate success of their efforts, however, hung by a slender thread. Most of the ruined city was a dangerous place and remained closed off, with tunnels and chambers barricaded with gates or deliberately caused cave-ins. The Svirfneblin had to contend with incursions from wererat squatters, insane elementals, ghosts, and a plague of invading oozes controlled by the Pudding King- a mad deep gnome under the influence of the Demon Lord Jubilex. This all changed when a group of adventurers came into the city however. The adventurers brokered a peace deal between the wererats and the svirfneblin, banished Ogremarchs Bane and thus ended the corruption of the earth elementals, and finally, led the cities newly bolstered militia in victorious battle against the Pudding King and his ooze army. With this done, the denizens of Blingdenstone could finally set their gaze to rebuilding both their city, as well as their future.

Demographics

300 Deep Gnomes (Svirfneblin)

Government

Work Collective led by Dorbo and Senni Diggermattock

Defences

Militia, summoned earth elementals

Industry & Trade

Salt, gemstones, and rare minerals

Assets

Gems

Guilds and Factions

The Miners' Guild, the Stoneheart Enclave, Goldwhisker Clan (were-rats) led by Chipgrin.

Architecture

Stone carved caves and buildings

Natural Resources

Gems, Salt, Rare Minerals

Alternative Name(s)

City of Speaking Stones

Type

City

Population

300

Inhabitant Demonym

Blingdenites

Location under

Underdark