Larrad

Larrad

(City)

Nation

Five Kings Mountains

Size

Large city

Population

17,840

Demographics

Almost entirely dwarven

Source: Dwarves of Golarion, pg(s). 13

Larrad is a large dwarven city in the region of Five Kings Mountains. The city is built up around a cluster of temple-caverns carved out by the dwarves in ancient times during the first period after the completion of their Quest for Sky. The temple-caverns served as a place of worship their gods and as a necropolis for their honored dead. Over the centuries, the temples grew into great complexes hosting many dwarven clerics and acolytes. At the same time the support settlements around the temples expanded and overlapped.

Larrad's necropolis is used by only the renowned members of dwarven aristocracy. The Cathedral of Magrim still maintains the tombs of the Five Kings' oldest residents, and employs necromantic magic to commune with the spirits of the ancestors. The Cathedral also support expeditions into the ruins of Saggorak which is under threat from undead and creatures from the Darklands.

After the death of Gorum in 4724 AR, the dwarven deity Grundinnar and an array of dwarven heroes battled the primordial being Otolmens over the fate of a warshard that crashed at the gates of Larrad. According to the Molthuni novel When Gods Make War, Otolmens claimed the warshard was a threat to the physics of reality and demanded that Larrad and all beings exposed to the warshard must be deleted from existence, which Grundinnar refused to allow. As Grundinnar battled Otolmens, dwarven heroes rushed to Grundinnar's aid, were slain, and were raised to serve Otolmens as celestials. However, both divine entities and nearly all of the dwarven combatants were suddenly removed from reality in a loud flash, as if neither had ever existed.

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