The Hollowstone Ridge

Hollowstone Ridge is a mountain range in the western part of Reunian. It was formerly part of The United Stoutheart Authority, a dwarven empire that spanned and excavated most of the mountain range. The mountain range now stands abandoned and has done so for the last 2000 years. There are many treasure hunters and adventurers that venture into the abandoned dwarven cities to look for their long-forgotten gold, most never return. By the southern foot of the range spans the valley known as The Maidens Cleft, which inhabits several stone and frost giant clans that are in constant turmoil, this makes the more accessible entrance to the mountain range extremely dangerous. The Hollowstone Ridge gets its name from the porous rock that the mountains are made of. The mountains were rich with gold, iron, and copper, but these rare metals attracted large amounts of Rust monsters and Earth Eaters. These infestations were the downfall of the dwarves, as the larger veins suddenly dissolved, a lot of the structures that the dwarves made fell together and the rock became porous and fragile, the dwarves were forced to abandon several mountain cities and in the end, the whole place became unlivable. The Empire under the leadership of Muirin Stoutheart the Divider split his remaining populous into several smaller groups and sent them in different directions to find homes and start anew. These groups ended up settling in the Black Steel Hills, Ragstag Crag and Greenpeak Moutain

Alternative Name(s)

The Dwarven Demise

Type

Mountain Range