Thri
We hear their songs in the winds that blow across the valley, toast their memory in every journey home. Lost to no heart in the vale, we see their spirits in dreams, as their ghosts dance around our fires. We welcome them home by our light, for every traveler must rest. Even the ones who had stopped walking many suns ago...
Geography
The eastern side of the Valley of Mjona is home to shear cliff faces thanks to the passed glacial activity, pockmarked to thousands of caves owing their life to the meltwaters that rushed through the valley as the glaciers were destroyed during The Hammer fall. The cliffs quickly give way to a priceless view of the valley and it's rolling gentle hills as the braided river Falyoa flows through the middle of the meadows.
The cliffs are the exposed core of the eastern mountains, where the geometric crystals of basalt columns serve as the mean feature of the wall. Many in broken steps, as if a great staircase was worn away and crumbled over the centuries. Though, the cliffs and their caves are now home to the Clans that herd the War Boar, where mountain goat and ibex share their mountain homes with all.
Deeper below the silt and sediment of the valley, those mountain bones run deep into the earth in a much deeper canyon that had been filled in leaving only the shear rock walls behind. The cliffs as one moves further south give way to a large alluvial outwash that houses the majority of Falyoa that has begun raising an evergreen forest in the last century with the Dwarves seeding the valley opening.
History
Thri was the original resting place for the four dwarven clans, Rhojic, Krijic, Mjoljic and Sjrijic. It was never a permanent settlement as the camps were made in the caves with each winter, where the Dwarves would share their tales and bask in their shared camaraderie. Only in the site that would become Mhuzchet did they discuss things like war with the Gnomes, where they would hope to one day retake their homeland. Thri was a refuge that was always returned to nature with each passing season.
The encampment only became more of a fixture of the landscape with the building of Mead Hall Thri and after the domestication of certain herds of War Boar. Thri still never remained a true home for the dwarves as only the herdsmen and the hall remained throughout the year. Eventually in the year of 1091 Thri was officially abandoned by the Dwarves in favor of Mhuzchet. Though the herdsman still call the caves home, keeping to the more relatively ancient rites of the Valley.
Tourism
Should one feel so inclined, one can still walk the caves with the escort of one of the Master Herdsman. To see into the past of the Dwarves and the valley itself, relics of the Dwarves are still found in the caves to this day, and a heft bounty placed on the heads of those who would steal these ancestral artifacts. It is advised to not touch anything inside the caves or the greater systems inside them, as the druids of the the Mjoljic have taken great strides to ensure that nature take their old homes.
Though the deeper caverns are home to great wonders, massive geodes that have been broken open by the mountain's might, or the underground rivers filled with unique flora and fauna. To the first forge ever worked by the dwarves, where the single anvil sitting near the lake of lava still guards the tools that were left there.
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The Hall
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