Bouldir
This hefty bronze Warhammer is set with runes and bears the inscription: Bouldir flies and fells the mighty. To dwarfish hands he
returns fast and true.
Once it belonged to Hvelic Dwarfish Hero, Duorik Ironside, Earth-Shaper, Slayer of Giants, Banisher of Dragons. Duorik's legend is still spoken in hushed voices by the Ironcrag Dwarfs - descendants of the Dwarfs of Hvel-Runor, who fled their ancestral home beneath the Galentaur when Duorik was corrupted by an evil fire spirit and laid waste to his own people in a whirlwhind of flame and anguish.
It is thought that Bouldir was buried with him, when he was respectively, if a little fearfully, laid to rest in the crypts of Hvela, for he was equal part champion and fiend, for he was partly responsible for driving Demons from Yore forever, and for burying and binding a mighty ancient dragon beneath the Stoneheart Mountains with his geomantic magic.
His eventual fall from grace, it is said, derived from forces beyond his control or understanding, but the stories tell of how his twisted soul lies tormented and unquiet within his tomb, wracked with guilt for the suffering he bequeathed to his own people.
The Hammer itself is rumoured to have magical properties - to fly from the hand of its wielder, strike hard and true and unfailingly return to his grasp. Its handle is decorated with skull designs, it has a clawed lion's paw pommel and wings in the shape of griffins on either side of its oversized head. The Griffin is still the house symbol of one of the modern Cantons of the Ironcrags.
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