2007-12-06 Dwarven Stronghold

Tallarn asked for ideas about a dwarven stronghold on EN World. Here’s what I submitted:

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• Hot springs with an awesome view.
• Very, very long stairways that are part of a spiritual pilgrimage.
• Halls of mourning with a roof hundreds of feet high and light holes that send down shafts of light that stand like pillars for an hour and then fade away only to reappear from a different light hole.
• Galleries, ie. paths dug into the mountain side like small tunnels. For fights that encourage the use of cover and flying.
• A waterfall between two of the peaks with a pond and lots of huge crystals that gather and reflect the light. A spiritual place.
• An old underground fortress that was abandoned long ago. It stands in a huge cavern and looks like a real fortress built to the back of the wall. It features huge old cannons with a muzzle several feet across. Nobody knows what force could have held the cannons together, and what the old masters were firing at. Some underground race fighting another, or maybe the fortress was built on a mountain top. Either the current mountain top fell from the heavens or the old fortress started to sink into the depths of the mountain.
• A great round hole many dozen feet accross with a great stair running along its circumference. Always down into the darkness. At the bottom lies...
• Fortified bridges arching over deep valleys.
• Mining carts that you can use to rollercoaster into the Underdark.
• The three peaks are mirrored in the underworld by a fortified hanging city built into incredible stalagtites. As if many hundreds of years ago the three mountains had just rotated, the old peaks turning into the stalagtites and the old stalagtites turning into the new peaks.

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