Afhurthan Litharchy

"We have all squabbled and howled like wee children! Fighting over scraps of ore like hounds over a morsel of meat! Do ye not remember? That we are children of the mountain?! What would Moradin say of our bitterness? What would Dumathoin think of our carelessness? Afhurth is our home, our birthright, our mother and father! From this moment on, we are not the Gagranach Clan, nor the Ironhew Clan, nor the Drunderachs, the Baldenors, the Orebeards, nor the Gemhides! We are the Mountain! And the Mountain is us!"
- from Hrolfdan the Stonespeaker's Hollering

The Afurthan Litharchy (more commonly just called The Litharchy) is the dwarven kingdom that encompasses a portion of the Northeastern Realm. It was founded after the unification of the numerous dwarven clans that resided in and around Mount Afhurth to combat the increasingly frequent attacks by orcish raiders pouring in from The Goretusk Highlands and beyond.