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. Trees survived only on the lower slopes and
valleys; most of the Kharolis range was too rough or too
high to support anything more than sparse patches of moss
and lichen.
The crests of the range never lost their snowcaps, the
hanging teeth of which descended as glaciers into the circu-
lar basins of the heights. These twisted and turned in every
direction before finally coming to rest in the frigid blue-
green waters of the high lakes.
The landscape of the Kharolis Mountains, inhospitable in
the extreme, was the home of a populous kingdom and
thriving culture that dwelled there quite comfortably, since
its members rarely saw the landscape above them.
They were the dwarves of Thorbardin.
Thorbardin was a powerful dwarven stronghold, con-
taining seven teeming cities and an extensive network of
roads and subterranean farming warrens. The whole of
Thorbardin covered an area more than twenty miles long
and fourteen miles wide.
Toiling in their vast underground domain, the dwarves
paid little attention to occurrences on the surface world.
They had enough space and enough intrigue in their subter-
ranean lairs to last them many centuries
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