WAR zone:Mount Gunbad  

An ancient tunnel leads from the |Badlands deep into the mines below Mount Gunbad. These mines are a major source of |Brightstone (Kh. Brynduraz), a rare metal needed by the |Dwarfs to forge the mighty weapons known as |Doomstrikers.

Lore

In an age long past, the Dwarfs mined Brightstone from the tunnels beneath Mount Gunbad. It was in the |Time of Woes that a horde of |Night Goblins attacked the gold-rich mines and drove the Dwarfs out. Many years later, |Mourkain Necromancers divined the existence of a powerful intersection of magical lay lines beneath the Gunbad mines. Determined to reach this nexus of power, they used their undead laborers to dig a great tunnel joining the mines with their own Empire, which at that time stretched across the Badlands. In the deepest hollow of the Gunbad tunnels, they built a great obsidian henge to channel the potent energies of the lay line convergence. The Mourkain never had the chance to use this power, for their great empire was destroyed soon after the completion of the henge.

Rumors of the existence of the Mourkain tunnel eventually reached the Dwarfs, but the tale was widely dismissed as a fanciful legend. Interest in the story was renewed when the |High King announced his ambitious plan to forge the Doomstrikers. Because the Gunbad mines were the only known source of Brightstone, the Dwarfs had tried many times to reclaim it. All such attempts had failed disastrously, for the Night Goblins were too well entrenched. A secret tunnel leading into the depths of the mines, however, might just give the Dwarfs a chance.