Thornhold Castle

The earliest records said that Thornhold was the fortress of Brunyundar Margaster, a local warlord of the Waterdhavian Margaster family. They held the keep until Brunyundar was overthrown by Samular Caradoon shortly after the end of the Second Trollwar in the mid−10th century DR. While Thornhold remained under the ownership of the Margaster family, it actually functioned as a chapterhouse for the Tyrran Knights of Samular until the mid–14th century DR.
In the Year of the Banner, 1368 DR, Hronrulf Caradoon died and the family keep was briefly seized by the Zhentarim. The malevolent agents traveled through the Underdark, enslaved many dwarves of Clan Stoneshaft, and made their way in through the underground passage beneath Thornhold.
The clan's leader Ebenezer Stoneshaft rallied his kin and allied himself with Hronrulf's daughter and agent of the Harpers, Bronwyn Caradoon. The allies banded together and reclaimed the ancestral Margaster home from the Zhentarim. In an act of benevolence and generosity, gifted the fortress to the Stoneshaft dwarves. The dwarves renamed the keep Stoneshaft Hold and transformed it into a caravan stop for traders about to brave the stretch of the High Road bordering the Mere of Dead Men.
When the Spellplague brought on geological changes to all of Faerûn circa the 1380s DR, the Mere of Dead Men expanded and trade to and from the keep was largely cut off. During that time the Stoneshaft dwarves became increasingly isolated from the surrounding lands.

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Castle