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The Lich of the North Gate is a mysterious being first reported by frightened dwarves during the reign of …

…e from the dwarves who claimed that the North Gate was no longer safe. Their fright was alarming in itself, for dwarves are not a …

Untred V. did not take the threat lightly. He sent ten brave mages and ten of the best knights to volunteer for the expe…

…rehended by normal means. Lich from the North Gate thus stands on the border of history and legend. Its existence could be the beg…

The Lich's threat at the North Gate is one of the most disturbing events of the current era. The dwarves brought ne…

…ng news to the Imperial Court about the North Gate. They claimed that the area was no longer safe and that a being capable of guid…

Untred V. decided to listen to the dwarves' request. He sent ten brave mages and ten of the best knights who volunteered…

However, around twenty, the ground collapsed. No knight returned, no mage and no reliable report. The silence that follo…

A significant northern gate or passage.

…sent the greatest fears turn toward the Northern Stone Gate. It was raised as the last of the four gates and separates the safer p…

…In 360 after the imperial calendar, the Northern Gate was built as the last of the four great gates of the dwarven realm. It was n…

An important passage into the region of the Stone Crown.

…r. On the surface it is an inhospitable northern mountain massif, but beneath its rocks lies a vast world of halls, mines, forge c…

…ver that one of the inner layers of the Northern Stone Gate has begun to crack from inside. It is not clear whether it is the resu…

…st great dwarven territories in the far north of Ulvenor. Dwarves settled them already in the prehistoric period around the year -…

…g situation on almost all sides. In the north, the pressure of the gnomes grew, in the west, kobolds began to penetrate the weaken…

…reign was the kobold incursion into the northwest of the empire, that is, into the area that belonged to the last major sections w…

Before becoming a Lich, he was a gnome and a shaman whose name was lost in time. He came from a culture that valued know…

Necromancy was not a ready-made school of magic in his time, which he would only discover in forgotten books. She was hi…

… made his way to the Frozen Stones, the northernmost regions of Ulvenor, where the ruins of an old dwarven kingdom lay. This regio…

…ed in a spell that was supposed to be a gateway to immortality. The world has forgotten him, but his magic has not died.

It remained hidden in the north for centuries and millennia. Ice, stone, and dark magic kept his body on the edge be…

In 1177, an expedition was sent to the north that found his body and with it records written in a language that almost no one und…

…e the idea that once brought him to the northern ruins: to create an order in which death will not be an end, but a tool. A realm …

The lich from the north is dangerous precisely because it does not hurry. He lets the living nations war, tr…

Tarianok was the architect of the victory over Cerbert. He used secret passages, hidden paths and knowledge of the terra…

…d to be just a fragmented threat to the northern regions. They began to act as a more organized force, capable of planning, negoti…

The nine generations of the northern branch have not yet been listed by name.

At the turn of the fifth millennium BC, northern Ulvenor was a troubled and fragmented land. The human tribes lived here scattered…

…e decisive clash came at the West Stone Gate - one of the largest and most important entrances to the dwarven realm. King Cerbert …

The goblin army that turned towards the Imperial borders was not an isolated marauding group, but a force that had alrea…

Orcs were incapable of effective siege warfare, but their strength lay in speed and pillaging. This is precisely why the…

From a military point of view, it was not the greatest victory of the epoch, but an event of extraordinary long-term sig…

The northwest was one of those parts of the empire that remained more vulnerable than others. …

…hird was supposed to finally return the northwest to imperial control. Instead, disaster struck. In the Battle of Velvet Meadows, …

…d to accept a truce and accept that the northwestern provinces would be lost. A new centralized state did not emerge here, as the …

The West Stone Gate wasn't just the entrance to the Dwarf Realm. She was a symbol of their dominance over…

King Cerbert decided to end the war with one decisive move. Instead of defending, he went on the attack. His army advanc…

Tarianok did not wage war like dwarves. He wasn't looking for a fair fight. He was looking for victory. He took advantag…

Cerbert found himself in the very middle of the battle. By the time he realized the extent of the encirclement, it was t…

After the battle, the West Stone Gate fell to the Orcs. The entire western part of the Stone Crown was lost. For the first …

The loss of the gate had long-term consequences. Trade routes were cut off, some mines abandoned forever a…

…s of strategic importance to the entire northeast of the human world. As long as he stood outside of Magnurian control, he was a t…

…dent. Instead of defending, he attacked north against the gnomes. In doing so, he disrupted the logic of the entire enemy coalitio…

…fter Luna. Meanwhile, Leo was advancing north, capturing cities and bringing an energy to the war that the coalition hadn't expect…

The northern campaign eventually led not only to the weakening of the gnomes, but also to a se…

Orcs did not conduct a classic campaign with one big objective and one decisive army. They attacked quickly, burned, loo…

… created for organized conflict. In the north, however, he encountered an opponent who refused to accept this rhythm. Magnus had t…

… goblin groups began to increase in the north. They gradually occupied the borderlands and tested how far they could go against th…

…erik II faced a long-term crisis in the northwest. Supported by smaller dwarven colonies and the remnants of goblin tribes, the ko…

…the empire faced further raids from the northeast. Orc groups relied on speed, pillage, and chaos, a style of combat that in the p…

At the Northeast Wall, the new imperial military logic collided with the enemy's old style. The g…

…ne functioning whole. The Battle of the Northeast Wall is therefore remembered as a practical confirmation of Engelbrekt's rule. I…

In the north arose the Old Norse Empire, one of the most important early multiracial states. Huma…

…ignificant western passage or fortified gate.

A trading route heading through the north.

The north is a land of cold, mountains, dwarven halls, old passes, and threats that come from …

…open banners. In the cold and forgotten north, reports of the Lich are beginning to spread. Many dismiss them as superstition, mer…

…ull of possibilities, especially in the north, where they found valuables, old magical energies, and landscapes not yet marked by …

Hroidetur lies east of the dwarven Stone Crown, and for most of ancient history it was considered an inhospitable and no…

In ancient times, various groups of Beta humanoids passed around Hroidetur, but few saw it as a true home. The lack of f…

Hroidetur is not a range of rich mines, fertile valleys, or safe trade roads. Most of its surface is sharp stone, cold c…

Hroidetur is one of the few regions of Ulvenor where two very different models of survival formed side by side over the …

Although Hroidetur is generally inhospitable, it also hides places of remarkable natural beauty and unique vegetation. I…

Hroidetur was never the center of a great empire, but it repeatedly shaped the history of neighboring powers. The Reker …

The Reker Rocks lie on the border between the Empire and the western edge of Hroidetur. They are sparsely inhabited, but…

The Nolomb Wastes earned their nickname, the Wastes of the First Goblins, after the end of the Beta humanoid period, whe…

The Eagle Hills are the liveliest and culturally most distinctive part of Hroidetur. Unlike most of the range, they were…

One of the defensive towers near the Reker Rocks has stopped sending signals, and the border command fears that goblin w…

…ulnerable. In the past four great stone gates were built that were meant to show the impregnability of the dwarven world and at th…

The Western Stone Gate fell during the attack of the cave goblins led by Tarianok, and its loss became one o…

If the Northern Gate were to fall, the Stone Crown would find itself in one of the greatest crise…

…r belonged to the kobolds alone. To the northwest, in distant times, goblin groups arrived who had migrated from the northeast and…

The northern part of the Great Plains is more conflict-ridden. It is here that the steppe cent…

The Frozen Stones lie in the deepest northern regions of Ulvenor, and for most of the year they are a land of ice, stone, silen…

…following millennia, inhabitants of the northern cities began abandoning the Frozen Stones and moving deeper into the safer and we…

Lawrence I took over the country at a time when Magnursia was no longer just a victorious power, but a state bearing the…

…oad. He had to face goblin raids in the north, elven pressure in the south, and internal opposition within his own kind. Neverthel…

…e east and a new goblin invasion in the northeast. In the end, however, it turned out that the greatest threat does not lie on the…

…o marked by a humiliating defeat in the northwest, where the kobolds showed that magic and military ingenuity were no longer the p…