====== Dwarf mine-holds ======

**<color #22b14c>Need to integrate this page, with the dwarf minehold list on the main Dwarf page.</color>**


Most Dwarves live in independent mine-holds, underground mining towns populated almost entirely by dwarves.  You will find mine-holds scattered in and around The Empire, and other parts of the game world, where they interact and trade with the local community. Mine-holds tend to be family and guild based, and the leader is often selected from a ruling family - in a semi-hereditary way (although the actual process varies).  There are different types of mine-hold.

  * **Basic** - Main Production: Iron - mainly run by humans. Gems: Hematite Plus one or two low value quartz stones.
  * **Poor** - Main Production: Iron, Copper, Bronze Secondary production: Silver, Lead. Gems: azurite; malachite; turquoise; plus one or two from this list: agates; blue quartz; hematite; lapis lazuli; obsidian; rhodochrosite; tigereye;
  * **Good** – Main Production: Iron, Silver, Lead. Secondary production: Gold, Copper, Bronze. Gems: A selection of (perhaps) 5 or 6 types of gemstone up to 100gp in value - say 3@10, 2@50, 1@100
  * **Great** - Potentially all metals and minerals, although each will have regular supplies of a limited selection. It may take a while to get others.

Note that there are also Dwarven ex-pat communities in some towns and cities. However, there isn't a list of those yet.

You should read the **[[consolidated:races:dwarves:start|Main Dwarf Page]]** to check for house rules and culture, before playing a dwarf.

===== List of Mine-holds =====

This may be incomplete as mine holds are being discovered regularly.  

  * **__These mine-holds are Followers of Moradin__**
  * [[consolidated:easttelida:holden#belarum|Belarum]] - a small mine-hold in [[consolidated:easttelida:holden|Holden]], [[consolidated:easttelida:start|East Telida,]]. This is a poor minehold, with limited supplies of iron.
  * **Rockhome** - on the road between Sybarite and Jekleal, in the Far Coast States. 
  * **Dersolbek** – set in the eastern mountains of Urgon.
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  * **__These mine-holds are Followers of Torag__**
  * These Minehold generally have connections to the underdark
  * **[[melmond|Melmond]]** - High up in the Telidan mountain range, Melmond sends shipments of ingots to The Tannery, via Berhof - a journey of several weeks through dangerous terrain.  Technically, the Minehold is known as Holfuruhm, but most people just call it Melmond.  (The Dwarves find it amusing, as  Melmond is a corruption of Bad Land / Bad World in an old language)  This is a Great Mine-hold with links to the underdark.
  * **Deep Delve** - a Dwarf Mine-hold deep in the Rostil Mountains, North of The Strongholds. 
  * -
  * **__These mine-holds are Followers of Magrim__**
  * Many of hese mines have often lost their connection to the underdark, or suffered some other great trauma.
  * **[[consolidated:hann_empire:porter_s_bar:start#banaduum|Banaduum]]** - a poor mine-hold close to Porters Bar, without a link to the underdark.  This is a poor minehold, with limited supplies of iron.
  * **Unknown** - the mine-hold at Paria in Drai Shon, which hasn't yet been named yet.  It might be an exceptiuon, and still retain an underdark link.
  * **Farfobik** - A small Mine-hold in Galina, close to the coast, without a link to the underdark.  This is a poor minehold.