Citadel of Salt - Salt Keep

Here, a castle is being erected on the site of a keep razed by Osson during the wars which once protected an old salt trade route from the east, hence the name. Harnnad has dwarven prisoners taken from Sunndi. He forces them to work on the fortification, their loyalty ensured by the fact that their children are kept hostage at Bluelode against any possibility of sabotage. Unfortunately, since most of the laborers they direct are criminals serving forced labor terms, the dwarves cannot keep up with the punishing schedule for completing the work (which is planned to finish in the summer of 586 CY). The dwarves are regularly beaten and brutally treated by their captors, many of whom are orcs and half-orcs.

The citadel is being built as a defensive bastion and riverboat base to protect the lands from the folk of Sunndi, making their work even more odious to the wretchedly unhappy dwarves forced to work here.