02 - Iron Kingdoms W.. - Captain Spud Is Amazing

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Highgate both at the docks below the cliffs and those
hoisted up into the city proper. Rig-foreman Jerg Daro
(male dwarf Exp5/War2), a dwarf born in Highgate,
oversees all crane operations and ensures that the
complex tangle of ropes and winches functions as it
should. These two men are fast friends but also prone
to fierce arguments and rarely agree on anything—
unless confronted by a third party, whereupon one is
quick to come to the defense of the other.
Ironhead Station
In Power: Viscount Casner Rathleagh and the
Ironhead Elder Council
Population: 15,000 humans, a couple thousand
gobbers, and a few hundred ogrun and trollkin.
35,000 dwarves and roughly 1,000 ogrun live at the
Ironhead Conclave.
Military: Ironhead Station has a permanent
garrison of several hundred soldiers supported by
dozens of trained railwardens who regularly inspect
the tracks and cargo. The dwarven conclave looks to
its own protection and has thousands of able-bodied
warriors.
Imports: Grain, fruit, wine, beer, dried meats,
mining supplies, and water
Exports: Iron, coal, stone, copper, silver, bauxite,
tin, gemstones
Arriving at Ironhead Station is a peculiar
experience, like being swallowed by a mountain, since
the entire city is completely beneath the earth. The
rail line curves through the Wyrmwall before entering
an enormous hollowed out cavern in the mountain,
within which, like jewels in darkness, the houses
and buildings of Ironhead Station are brightly lit by
hundreds of gas lamps. The majority of the housing
and tunnels are of course within the rock walls of the
massive cavern, but scores of buildings on grillwork
platforms are nestled high along many of the walls.
Dozens of catwalks of varying heights, widths, and
angles crisscross to and fro. Massive steel girders
secure the structures aloft, and enormous clockwork
gears and pulleys raise and lower several hanging cages
and wide grillwork platforms throughout the area
conveying the folk of Ironhead to their destinations
above and below.
Perhaps the most unique settlement in Cygnar,
Ironhead is actually two towns in one. The small
underground town and rail station most visitors see
is peopled mainly by humans, but an older second
community is less than a mile away, connected by
tunnels and inhabited by thousands of dwarves. The
Ironhead Conclave settlement evolved almost in
isolation, and it is an important connection between
Orven and Steelwater Flats. Main contact with the
dwarves initially came from the regular merchant
and supply caravans stopping for safe haven along
the mountain roads, but this all changed with the
invention of the rail.
Since then, hundreds of families have moved to
Ironhead Station hoping to find their fortunes in the
deep mines or the related shipping and rail industries.
Residents include enterprising ogrun, gobbers, and
trollkin all willing to work for a share. “Miner Rhulic”
is a common dialect spoken in Ironhead Station by all
the races including an integrated half Cygnaran, half
Rhulic vernacular quite unintelligible to outsiders.
The saying goes that the inhabitants of Ironhead
have “gravel in their pants and iron in their skulls,”
but there is no disputing the wealth that comes from
these mines and quarries. Additionally, local fortunes
increased when the rail line finished the connection
to Orven through Ironhead Station making it a crucial
stop through the Wyrmwall Mountains.
dWarVen ConClaVes
the dWarVen ConClaVes in Cygnar date baCk to 204 ar When
the ink of the CorVis treaties Was still damp on the page.
king beneWiC the bold, first king of Cygnar, Was Visited
by emissaries from rhul With an unexpeCted proposition.
the stone lords offered to Cement their neW friendship by
establishing ConClaVes in the lands of man. numerous young
dWarVen Clans Were eager to moVe south and make their mark.
familiar With their industrious nature, king beneWiC gladly
aCCepted and offered the dWarVes Considerable territory
deep in the WyrmWall mountains, lands too rugged for muCh
useful human Work. in a feW short deCades the ConClaVes
at ironhead and orVen Were born as Well as other smaller
settlements elseWhere in the mountains of Cygnar (and Via
similar arrangements in khador). at the bargain Cost of being
alloWed to goVern themselVes by rhuliC laW, these dWarVes
haVe proVen inValuable sourCes of industry and labor.
Noted Persons
Viscount Casner Rathleagh, Alderman (male
Thurian Ari2/Wiz11): The elderly viscount is a man