A Map Of Torn hold

A Bit of Background

Torn hold was initially founded by dwarves almost five hundred years ago as an extension to their surface farming enterprise in the vales around Drulkariz dwarf hold but dwarves are competent rather than gifted farmers and whilst it did not fail as such when the dwarves made trading contact with the Varazzan’s its days where numbered. As the amount and variety of food the Varazzans would trade for dwarf made finished goods made it more sensible to just buy the more exotic stuff than grow it themselves.

As the Varazzans began to expand north through the gap and discovered a large supply of the wonder metal at Zebregan the Dwarf king decided to sell the hold to the Varazzan’s for a large quantity of the metal which until the flare up of the purple flame at the site of what is now Angrad several years latter the Varazzans could not work. The dwarves had been aware of the metal as it is to be found in small quantities scattered about the area north of the Gap and where able to work it with difficulty in their sophisticated forges they valued it greatly and where always eager to get hold of more such as that the Varazzan miners could prize form the lode at Zebregan or latter hack from it with tools made from the reforged metal either by the dwarves or in the foundries at Angrad even if the reworked metal seemed to lack some of the hardness and toughness of  the original and the tools made form it where whilst able to hack lumps from the mother lode soon broken and blunted by doing so.

So Torn hold passed peacefully from Dwarven hands to Varazzan hands and is now the centre of the most sophisticated farming enterprise north of the gap further human settlers founded a network of smaller holds in the relatively fertile valleys around in many cases taking over the farming centres the dwarves had built but soon expanding beyond that and producing fine crops form land which the dwarves had thought barren.

This was a pattern which continued for nearly fifty years until the giants came down out of Kethian folk lore into the real world 

The actual map is in process