Kairn Volkov
Kairn Volkov is a crumbling, ancient outpost originally built by the Vlaak Empire in the western reaches of the Karthax Mountains.
• Kairn Volkov’s fortress is now occupied by the monster hunting guild known as the Sisters Carnifexa.
• All Sisters receive their training at Kairn Volkov; this training is a merciless gauntlet of painful lessons that sometimes proves fatal to those who fall before the many trials involved in their instruction.
• The Sisters Carnifexa keep the location of Kairn Volkov a closely guarded secret
• Deep within the bowels of Kairn Volkov, the earliest members of the Sisters Carnifexa found abandoned Vlaak laboratories intended to breed alchemically enhanced imperial soldiers.
• Using the forbidden knowledge gleaned from these labs, the Sisters perform experiments on the most promising of their young charges, hoping to transform them into peerless monster hunters.
Kherebor
Krevborna’s dwarves sequester themselves within fortress cities carved into the dangerous slopes of the Karthax Mountains. One of these cities, Kherebor, fell to an invading force of goblins.
• The goblin horde was aided and abetted by Prince Coram Forkbeard, the third son of Kherebor’s king.
• Prince Coram saw the goblins as allies for his act of supreme betrayal and usurpation; he led the goblins through the secret tunnels beneath Kherebor, allowing them to take the fortified city’s defenders by surprise and thereby conquer the fastness.
• After the bloody battle, the only dwarves who remained alive inside the fortress were taken as slaves.
• Although Coram is now the crowned lord of Kherebor, this is merely a jest by the goblins; they keep him installed as Kherebor’s sovereign as a mockery of the dwarves and their hallowed traditions.
• Once a proud example of the beauty and endurance of dwarven craftsmanship, Kherebor now exists in a state of deplorable ruin.
