Khadur-vanul - The First
“Stone remembers. And Vanadia was the first to speak.”
Khadur-Vanal is not simply a city—it is a living archive, a city that speaks in echo and etching. Its people are traditionalists, archivists, and stonebinders. They do not chase glory in the surface world. Their pride is in preservation, craft, and blood-memory.
To break from Khadur-Vanal law is to fracture lineage itself.
Khadur-Vanul
Deep within the The Crownstone Mountains lies Khadur-Vanul, the oldest of all dwarven cities — carved, not built, from a single mountain heart. It is from Khadur-Vanul that the first clan-banners were woven, the first forge struck and the first stone-law spoken.
The High Seat
“No crown rests upon his brow. The mountain wears it for him.”
The King of Vanadia is not emperor over all dwarven holds—but his word resonates deeper. Though the Circle of the Crownless governs the city, and each Khorrundar kingdom holds its own autonomy, the King of Vanadia is treated as the living voice of stone-memory. He speaks not with force, but with legacy.
Vanadian kings do not sit upon a jeweled throne. Instead, they stand before the Stone Reliquary, an obsidian dais carved with the names of every dwarven hall that has ever fallen, sworn, or rebelled. His rule is symbolic—but its weight shapes treaties, oaths, and warpaths across the mountains.
The Archive of Deepwrit
Within the lower halls of Vanadia lies the Archive of Deepwrit, a sanctum carved into a cluster of vault-chambers and rune-galleries—each room dedicated to a different branch of dwarven legacy: bloodline, war, betrayal, oath, and stonecraft. The Archive is not vast in size, but in depth of reverence.
Founded during the Great Fracture, when spoken truths began to splinter clans, the Archive was built to ensure no memory could be altered by tongue alone. Each etched wall is a permanent record—inscribed by heat-chisel and bound with rune-lock.
Access is limited. Most dwarves never see the Prime Wall, and only three may inscribe it:
The King of Vanadia
The Deep Archive’s appointed Voice
And the last surviving heir of a fallen clan
It is said the deepest stone of Vanadia hums where lies have been carved.
The Vanadian Runewall
