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Then on an errant breeze, coming from somewhere
ahead, all three of them heard a sound that seemed to
float among the treetops and drift down like crystal
snow. The mage seemed to stiffen, the kender's eyes went
huge, and even the stolid, pragmatic dwarf felt the sound
take hold of his heart and tug at it.
Somewhere off there, to the north, someone was sing-
ing. The voice was more lovely than anything Chane
Feldstone had ever heard.
Chapter 6
Though it had no king - no regent had acceded to
the throne since the death of King Duncan two centuries
before - the fortified realm of Thorbardin, deep beneath
the surface of the central Kharolis Mountains, consid-
ered itself a kingdom. And without a king, it fell upon
the Council of Thanes to sit as a Board of Regents, decid-
ing such matters as were not governed within the sepa-
rate cities and warrens that made up the undermountain
realm.
Seven cities lay within the bedrock of the mountains,
each a major community in its own right, as well as three
farming warrens, two Halls of Justice, and a massive for-
tification at each of the realm's two main gates.
In the more than three centuries since the great Cata-
clysm that had forever changed the continent of Ansa-
lon, the dwarves of Thorbardin had mostly abandoned
the manning of Northgate
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