Khaz Rendlea

Most of Khaz Rendlea lies entombed within thousands of cubic feet of solid stone. Two exceptions exist, however. The massive Gates of Khaz Rendlea, marking the city’s only above-ground entrance, still stand tall upon the mountain. Lava from the eruption that destroyed the great hold blasted forth from the gateway like beer from a freshly breached keg, and as that eruption wound down, the molten rock cooled and sealed the entrance, leaving the barbican, gatehouse, and open stone doors to guard a flow of jagged volcanic rock. Further up the slope, above and to the south of the gates, the great Casements of Threngrim open onto lava-filled chambers once rich with plantlife and the tombs of non-dwarves who earned burial within the city. The mechanisms for opening and closing the immense stone slabs that form the casements are forever sealed by tens of thousands of tons of cooled lava, leaving the three barriers opened at varying angles.
Khaz Rendlea was one of the great holds of Dwarvenkind, such as Khaz Dugoth and The Iron Hall (Khara Drong). In 615, while digging a new tunnel system at the lowest level of the mountain city, the Dwarves hit a lava vein. Very few Dwarves were able to escape the millions of tons of hot lava that poured out through the city and out onto the slopes of the Greyhammer Peaks. These Dwarves left Khaz Rendlea with their King, Forgemaster Threngrim Grudgebeard, and traveled north to Khaz Grin. Threngrim then made his throne in the great halls of Khaz Grin.

RUINED SETTLEMENT
615

Type

Megalopolis

Location under

Mistfen Mire