Black Crag
Black Crag is a mighty fortress of the Orcs located in the Worlds Edge Mountains near the Border Princes. Once a Dwarf hold called Karak Drazh or Karag Drazh (both also meaning "black crag"), it is now the largest and most prominent of the Orc strongholds in what was once the Dwarf empire. [1a]
Black Crag, built at the western entrance to Death Pass, overlooks one of the World's Edge Mountains' most important passes. It is ruled by Gorfang Troll-Eater, a perfidious Orc Warlord whose horde is engaged in perpetual war with the nearest Dwarf strongholds.
History
Black Crag was surrounded by rich veins of ore that provided great wealth for the Dwarfs before the great hold was lost.
The throng of the hold joned High King Snorri Whitebeard's muster of the might of the Dwarfs to fight alongside the Elves of Prince Malekith against the Daemons of Chaos. [2a]
It survived the cataclysm of the Time of Woes, but fell soon afterwards to the Orc hordes that came in the wake of the disasters with Orc Warlord Zogbad the Destroyer finally taking the hold. After conquering it, he had the vast statues of the Ancestor Gods reshaped into totems of Gork and Mork. [1a]
Thorgrim Grudgebearer led an attack on Black Crag and managed to rescue several of King Kazadors family who were being held captive there. [1a]
Sources
- 1: Warhammer Armies: Dwarfs (8th Edition)
- 1a: The Lost Realms, pg. 26
- 2: The Great Betrayal (Novel)
- 2a: Sins of the Ancestors, pg. 10
- White Dwarf 152, pg. 54, The Dwarf Realms
- Map of the Dwarf realms: http://www.darkinn.w3.pl/files/wfrp/mapy/dwarfr3.jpg
| The Dwarf realms | |
| Karaz-a-Karak - Karak Kadrin - Zhufbar - Karak Azar - Karak Azgal - Karak Azul- Karak Hirn - Karak Angazbar - Karak Gantuk - Karak Izor - Karak Norn - Karak Ziflin - Karak Eight Peaks - Barak Varr - Karak Zorn - Karak Eksfilaz - Karak Kaferkammaz - Karak Grom - Karak Azgaraz - Karak Angkul | |
| Norse Dwarf holds | Kraka Dorden - Kraka Drak - Kraka Ornsmotek - Kraka Ravnsvake |
| Lost holds | Kadar-Gravning - Karag Dron - Karak Azorn - Karaz Bryn - Kazad Thrund - Karak Drazh - Karak Dum - Karak Khazarak - Karak Krum - Karak Ungor - Karak Varn - Karak Vlag - Karak Vrag - Karak Zanda - Ekrund - Mount Silverspear - Karaz Ghumzul |