Valtarok Mountains

The Valtarok Mountains are the ancestral home of the Orcs, a race now thought to be extinct. In the centre of the range is the site of the final battle, the Battle of Amrok Point. The mountains are now inhabited by their surviving kin, the Half Orcs.

Before the Orcs, the mountains were controlled by the proud race of Dwarves. They lived on the surface and mined the mountain, producing intricate metal- and stoneworks, commanding a workforce of stone golems. Then the Orcs began to emerge. The Dwarves were a peaceful race at this time, friends with the Elves living to their south, and they treated their new neighbours in a similar fashion.

The Orcs quickly grew in number until they outnumbered the Dwarves two to one. They attacked, and the Dwarves quickly learned to adapt, using thier golems as weapons. The Orcs were too many, however, and they soon drove the Dwarves underground to their capital, Makhalla, where they barred their doors, ceding the mountains to their enemy, retreating from the surface world forever.

Now the Half Orcs occupy these mountains, which are still rich in valuable ores, and mining those ores has become the Half Orcs' main occupation since the great war against the Orcs. A large proportion of the Dwarven equipment that was abandoned when the Orcs first took residence there had been left untouched, and as such is now used by the Half Orcs. That and their large, strong stature, makes for efficient mining, and they make up the majority of ore production on Celdon.