Halls of Hammerfall

The Halls of Hammerfall is a former dwavern community that no one has heard from in over a century.

The Halls of Hammerfall take their name from the Hammerfalls, with the main entrance to the halls being located behind the largest waterfall known as The Anvil.

In its heyday the Halls of Hammerfall were a wondrous dwarven community; the surrounding earth was inundated with ore, and the community filled with unique forges and gates powered by waterwheels that used the waterfall's limitless power.

No one knows what horrible fate befell the dwarves, though rumours abound. Some claim they were wiped out by a disease or ailment, some that they were slaughtered by one of the numerous kholo tribes that roam the surrounding Brazen Peaks, and others claim they dug too deeply, reached the depths of the Darklands, and released some unknown horror. One rumour most commonly espoused by older dwarves was that the dying dwarves, as their last act, built their own tombs and filled them with traps to prevent any of the mountains' inhabitants from despoiling their final resting place. Every few years a map turns up that supposedly leads to a secret entrance to the halls, and sometimes a lone adventurer returns with some dwarven trinket claiming to have entered the Halls of Hammerfall, but to date there is no definitive proof of what happened within the silent Halls of Hammerfall.