Dhun Volkulgar
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Dhun Volkulgar was a dwarven city that once stood as the capital of Eivanfalr, an offshoot nation of Gildómar, prior to the dwarven nation's collapse. Despite its inclusion in the Aletheian Empire, the Dhun maintained its own royalty and nobility separate to its Empire, allowed by the treaty through which peace was achieved many years ago.
It was mostly destroyed in the year 5623 through dual-pronged devastation. FIrstly, a civil war in subterranean Vaermyrhel had resulted in half of the underground city's armies being expelled from the city - and they had seen this as an opportunity to enslave the dwarves above in vengeance and to rebuild their strength. Though the dwarves fought well, the attack caught them unprepared.
Secondly, barely months after the first attack, dramatic earthquakes again tore through the mountains - this time caused by Riven Drast and the Spiritblade as he escaped the grasp of the Lost Ones during the rescue of Alysia Undria in the Underdark. This time, the earthquakes did not stop so easily. This time, they triggered the eruption of Mount Elendûr.
The eruption and its following aftershocks swept through the already-battered city and its surrounding towns easily, with few dwarves free enough from their drow captors to man the defences they had ever lived behind. The city was entombed; its invaders and its beloved citizens would treat its walls as their grave.
There has been talk, three years on, of rebuilding the city - especially by the refugees who managed to flee it alive, many of them surviving only by aiding the Lost Ones in their capture of Ironfalls during the first invasion. It is a far-off dream for the moment, kept alive by the presence of a dwarven Champion but stymied by Aletheia's ongoing war against the Medimian Empire.
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