Dumugon

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After the Stalemate of Gudrall, signed on 12 War March 899, the Gudrall hills became the property of an Ogre Lord named Eneriyes. With a slave labor force, backed by stone giant masons and engineer out of Saer'kal, a towering citadel was built on the shores of lake Thurveleg. Named Dumugon after Eneriyes's favorite dire wolf, it was a place of debauchery and revelry. With a steady stream of iron and platinum coming from the Gudrall's mines, Dumugon quickly outgrew the citadel, becoming a town of 10,000 by the Year 950. Peopled by hobgoblins, goblins and Toomrur, it was a commercial rival to the older and larger city-state of Gúra.

In 1505, the first year of the First Ogre War (1505 - 1511), Dumugon fell to an amphibious attack by the Fothakith, naval arm of the Orchish Empire. Retaken in 1508 by an army led by Bile mercenary leaders, and surprisingly financed by Gúra's bankers, it was the first major victory for the Toomrur over the Orchish Empire.

In 1510, tired of the economic war, one of Fograth's generals, a blue dragon named Zanthrall attacked Dumugon. While he went in for the first fly-by, blasting the battlements with lightning, the rest of his army, growing aware of the unsanctioned assault, were uncommitted in their attack. As a result, Zanthrall suffered concentrated fire, dying from a a torrent of arrows, ballista bolts, and magic missiles. Zanthrall death, betrayed at the very end, provided an opening for a dark power. Restored by Thasmudyan, Zanthrall rose to haunt the city as a ghost dragon. Crafty, aided by necromancers, over the next six years, Zanthrall frightened off a population of more than 30,000.

Today, Dumugon is a cold and eerie place. Ghostly apparitions of sentries patrol the walls, and the ghost dragon Zanthrall, once a Fograth general, lairs somewhere in the tunnels linking the labyrinths with the seemingly endless mines of Gudrall.