Orzar’Nack

The Orzar’Nack Empire is widely considered the peak of the dwarves and rock gnomeish civilization, when the peoples throughout all the known world were united under one ruler and created architectural masterworks.
The roots of the Orzar’Nack Empire are known to be within the Age of the Elder Races, when dwarves and gnomes banded together to create the Kingdom which through The Ages came to control the vast majority of dwarven and rock gnomish population of the known world. The Orzar’Nack Empire at its peak held lands from the Atarsid Isles in the north to Talduras and Taunas in the South all connected by the subterranean highways known as the Darkroads. The Orzar’Nack Empire was upended when the Darkquake hit, the Darkroads were largely destroyed, entire cities were ruined or sank into the Underdark to fall prey to the illithid. Orzar’Nack collapsed into a succession crisis and civil war known as the War of a Thousand Kings. As civil war ravaged Orzar’Nack one of the greatest goblinoid forces, Khurgo Horde, under its ruler Khurgo pillaged the subterranean world in a war that lasted five centuries. The Orzar’Nack Empire never recovered, and was dead well before those involved accepted it.
The surviving kingdoms, colonies, and cities of the Orzar’Nack Empire declared or achieved their independence, with the Kingdom of Aran'Nack widely considered its successor state, while the Craglands, Karthaig, Kingdom of Makthoria, Kingdom of Sarvartar, and Zwerthaig were eventually created from its ruins.