The Gorge Lords

The Gorge Lords are the 3rd of the 4 Mountain Kingdoms. These are the Drow of Vinnaverold on this continent. Also known as the Tunnelers, the machines of the Drow are moddled after great insects and arachnos and are used to carve the great cave systems seen deep in the base of the mountains. These Lords are also great architects of hanging cities that fill caverns both natural and carved.

Structure

So the actual Gorge Lords are little more than the leaders of these city states but they do have a centralized power in the Crinti Jabbak, an elected representative from among the 9 Gorge Lords, who's city becomes the capital and gather hold of their society.
However, the religion that governs the forges and well of the people are the Clergy of Ilhar. Ilhar is known as mother and the clergy of Ilhar are evolutionists who believe that nature is the Prime Design and thus the machines that are made should be reflections of the beasts of the Underdark but better, the next generation of such beasts.

Public Agenda

The public agenda of the Gorge Lords is to keep their profit margins high in the Upward Trade. They are directly above the Dreaming Collective thus all of the goods from the Ironsingers and Crystalweavers pass through them and become their responsibility to get to the Peak Kings who pay mightily for their materials

Assets

They have the Tunneler machines, old magics, unity

History

So during the first age of the orcish Kingdom, the dark elves of the gorge began wrangling beasts to carve out tunnels in the rocks. They dug to the surface and encountered the goblinoids and there was much war, so much war that the beast population of the under dark went south pretty fast. Then during the Second age, the Drow struck a deal with the dragon that had taken the peaks and became their mediaries to the Dreaming Collective. The 3rd age brought war with the Orcs as they did not appreciate the Drow siding with this great beast and has only been settled in the memories of the oldest Drow so the remaining feelings of war are more recent than one would like if their interest was peace.

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Type

Geopolitical, Kingdom

Alternative Names

Tunnelers, Rock Crawlers

Demonym

Gorges

Leader

Crinti Jabbak: Dhucunsho Onizeth

Divines

• Ilhari, the Genesis

Location

Chasm Cities

Related Ethnicities

• Drow of Sanctum