Krangord

Currently, Krangord has a stone keep fully built, with stone barracks under construction, together with a half completed stone wall around the complex. Dwarven slaves, as many as can be spared from the Growling Mines, are used as builders, together with charmed giants and ogres. The role of the Krangord garrison is to watch the Wolf Nomads to the west by patrolling the Blackwater margins and the western hill fringes. The Wolf Nomads are not at war with Iuz and never have been, but their attitude to the Old One is ambivalent. Most shun the hills between the Blackwater and Dulsi Rivers now, avoiding Iuz's humanoids, but some still try to reach the old Wegwiur Thralls, either to revere their ancestors or to rescue their remains from these burial grounds. Some nomads even trade with Iuz's patrols along the Blackwater on an opportunistic, bartering basis, Both sides are very wary and spy on each other from a safe distance. Krangord's commander, the half-orc fighter/thief Reglezenn Dariag, has a hard time making sure his Urzun only watch the nomads. From time to time, there are skirmishes, but Reglezenn has strict orders not to let this escalate. Iuz doesn't want a nomad warband arriving to cause trouble. Reglezenn has thus instituted a scheme of training the best fighters as hill fighters and scouts, and then sending small bands of them to fight in the Rift Canyon. This gives the more bloodthirsty Urzun a goal. Being posted to the battle zone is an inspiring possibility.

Krangord is reputed to stand close by an interdicted series of magical, dwarf-excavated catacombs which lead along a vast tunnel complex to the Swirlers (see below), and contain within themselves an unusual variant of a stone controlling earth elementals. Certainly, both renegade elementals and galeb duhr appear in the hills close by from time to time, and sometimes attack this settlement. Iuz's priests and mages have not yet been able to pinpoint the nature, or source, of this problem.