Dark Dealings in Yartar

Prologue
Carn and Miles travel south to the great library of Candlekeep, using Belak’s book on druidic lore to gain entry. They spend a few days researching the history of the legendary dwarf smith, Durgeddin the Black.

Orcs drove Durgeddin’s clan out of their ancestral home in the Spine of the World two centuries ago. Beneath a jagged hill known as the Stone Tooth, northeast of the city of Mirabar, the survivors built themselves a new home they named Khundrukar.

For the next one hundred years, Durgeddin forged mighty weapons of war, and his people ushered forth from their hidden stronghold to strike at the hated orcs time and again. The protracted conflict came to be known as the Smith’s War.

Unfortunately, the Spellplague struck, and in the ensuing chaos, a host of orcs found Khundrukar. They lay siege to the fortress and, after finally breaking through its defenses, wiped Durgeddin’s clan from the face of Toril.

Even so, stories of the Smith’s War and the weapons used to wage it still surface from time to time …