Years passed, and the small camp became a sprawling kilometers-wide industrial marvel. Though the dwarves were often stubborn—sometimes sitting to smoke a pipe while a critical bridge sat half-finished—their craftsmanship remained the heartbeat of the mountain.
The rhythm of the Deepwood Mountains was defined by the strike of the hammer. Below the snowy peaks of Mara, a small clan of dwarves—led by the pragmatic elder, Thrain—began their descent into the forgotten earth. Above them, a Great War raged in the Overworld, and the surface realms looked to the mountains for the steel and arms needed to survive. Hammerting
: Logistics often proved more dangerous than the dark. More than once, the colony teetered on the brink of starvation, not for lack of food, but because the complex tunnels made it impossible for a tired dwarf to find a meal in time. Years passed, and the small camp became a