Bor

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Built by the Gadstill Dynasty (275 HE - 1533 HE), Bor is on the southern shores of Lake Fjorgeir. Near the center of a great valley, downstream of windmills and industry, and goat ranches under the watch of stone giants, Bor became a central market for the peoples of Hleittil. It was also strategically sited, guarding the lake, a major artery for those going upstream or down, and securing the roads into the gold mines of Nalbirag.

After the fall of the Gadstill Dynasty in 1533 HE, Bor became a short-lived city-state. In 1535 HE, wracked with strife over the old pecking order of stone giants first, no longer backed by the resources of an empire, and of broken economy, Bor was ripe for pruning. This came in the form of Cimirnar's restless natives, former "citizens" of the empire, now looters of its fall. After a six-month siege, the city capitulated. Those that had the means, bought their freedom, the others went in chains west towards the mines of Nalbirag. Bor was left a ruin, a home for wandering beasts and monsters.

In 1151, a Goliath warlord named Tharag-Turgûn used Bor as a base and market for the spoils of raiding and conflict. When he founded the Neeth-Theen empire in 1177, Bor was made his capital.