Kaghrihm

Kaghrihm is a mountain-city north of the Frozen cove under the control of House Icebeard. Kaghrihm has become a center for the highest levels of craftsmanship and blacksmithing. "Kaghrihm" roughly translates from Dwarvish as "the new under salvation".

Description

Located about 300 to 400 feet up a mountainside, the entrance to the main city is marked by a perimeter fence and a dozen or so stone towers, four of them around the central structure. There are small buildings, liveries, and stables. In the center is a large heavy gazebo-type roof structure over a 50 to 60-foot wide pit descending 100 to 150-feet deep into the mountain rock. Numerous spiral staircases descend into the city proper, about 15-feet wide each.
The staircases descend into a large semi-domed area about a hundred feet across. The air is much warmer than outside, and it smells like wet earth, burned wood, soot, and iron. Barracks are built into both sides, with balcony pathways and storage for weapons.
The stairs continue into a very wide opening that leads to a central 30 foot-wide road, the Augur Trail, which is roughly hewn with numerous pillars throughout that rise up to meet the ceiling to both maintain the weight and give it a grandiose, massively scaled grand hall feel. Passing through, it opens up into a massive 120-foot high by 1500-foot wide underground cavern, filled with buildings forming an underground neighborhood that continues to descend, curving like a gargantuan auger slowly spiraling into the earth. There are mining works off to the far right. To the left are other residential buildings.
Each of the Disks of the city further below contain immense pillars holding up the ceiling of the caverns. The Disks are each bounded by huge heavy dark metal gates drawn up to the ceiling, which can be dropped in case of invasion.

Volition Disk

The Volition Disk is the oldest and top level of Kaghrihm which houses most of the citizens.

• The Broken Stool: a tavern and inn run by Luda, an older dwarven woman

Deliberation Disk

The Deliberation Disk, nicknamed the Liber Disk, is the bustling market center of the city, filled from floor to ceiling with homes and emporiums.

• The Anvil of Smeltborne: forge and blacksmith
• Ornn's Mantle: massive temple to Ornn
• The Softer Stoneforge: a bakery
• Plexus Post: an odds-and-ends shop
• Vellum Steeple Archive: on the boundary between the Liber and Grand Disks, a for-profit library with a Teleportation Circle
• Firebeard Tavern: a tavern with free drink during its owner's performance

Grand Disk

This is where a lot of the richer folk live, and where the Luddenbrock mines are. The Grandcast Citadel is located here, where most of the town is lawfully taken care of. It looks like a frozen tornado.

• Underrest: high-end inn for dignitaries.

Society

Law

The city boasts a military force. Use the Guard Arrival Times table to determine how long it takes for guards to arrive at a location after a crime or similar incident is reported.

Demographics

Kaghrihm's citizens are mostly dwarves and a sprinkling of other races. Dwarven is the most used languages in Kaghrihm.
The vast majority of the population are dwarves (96%). There is a small population of other races as well (4%).

Geography

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Type
Settlement
Region
Within the Ice-peak Concord
Size
Capital

Society

Demonym
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Races
96% dwarf, and 4% others.
Religions
Ornn

Commerce

Imports
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Exports
Metals, minerals, ores
Currency
Ecu

History

Population
26,240
Ruler
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Others

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Capital