Steelsong Mountain

A Journey Ends

Driven out of their homeland in the Draak'thor Massiff, political refugees, bandied about the continent, rejected and shunned, the Steelsong clan of dwarves eventually made their way to the mountain home promised to them by Yulasta guided by the map she made for them. Here they found a place, a home.
Not that this refuge was an easy place to be. The Spiral Mountain Range was a precarious place to live at best. The mountain she directed them to was possibly the most habitable mountain in the mountain range, but there was a lot of taming to do.

A Refuge Made Habitable

So the Steelsong dwarves, being dwarves, set out to do what dwarves do. Turn chaos into order. Build. Be productive. Tame the mountain.
They invented a few tools to help settle the land. Like the Sorcerer's Engine that allowed them to capture geothermal energy and remove it from the land solidifying the stone under the mountain that had been rivers of molten rock. They invented new production processes and new materials using forms of sand and tapping the rivers of molten rock to fill them creating cast stone, They dressed the cast stone with steel tools to shear them across the face and unveil the shiny black obsidian glass stone. Then they used them to create glorious towers that reflected every stray beam of light in a dazzling display.

They're a cantankerous lot the Steelsong, but they know how to build, I'll say that for them. Those black castles of theirs are strong as stone, slick as glass, and tall as the mountains they build them on.

— Edmund Fircrest

The Steelsong tapped the magic of the land, magic left over from the The Shattering, and turned it into defenses against their neighbors - yes - but even more against the angry young mountains that they lived among.
They built castles, they built cities, they built the The Hall of Judgement, they built homes. They waited for no other to provide for them, but seized opportunity provided by the gods, and built a refuge for themselves.