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Karak Hirn:

Heart of the Hornberg

By Alfred Nuñez Jr.

Special thanks for the comments, editorial work and suggestions provided by

John Foody, Jude Hornborg, Rich Pingree, and Dan Wray

Expanded concept of kinhalls an kinhearths by Dan Wray and used with permission

Woodcut from www.Godecookery.com

Obligatory Copyright Statement

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Karak Hirn: Heart of the Hornberg

Alfred Nuñez Jr.

Table of Contents

Author’s Notes ................................................................................................................................ 4

Karak Hirn ...................................................................................................................................... 4

History......................................................................................................................................... 5

The Dwarf Schism .................................................................................................................. 5

Trade with the Tribes .............................................................................................................. 5

Rise of Sigmar......................................................................................................................... 6

Hohenbach Treachery ............................................................................................................. 6

The Shattered Neighbour ........................................................................................................ 6

Karak Hirn Today ................................................................................................................... 7

Sidebar: Population Density of the Karaks............................................................................. 7

The Dwarfhold ............................................................................................................................ 8

Sidebar: Brotherhood of Memory ........................................................................................... 9

The Rulers of Karak Hirn ........................................................................................................... 9

King Alrik Ranulfsson ............................................................................................................ 9

Queen Winnifer Flaxenhair..................................................................................................... 9

Prince Earak Alriksson ........................................................................................................... 9

Warmaster Ghunnar Ranulfsson ........................................................................................... 10

Prince Muldrim Theodarsson................................................................................................ 10

King's Council....................................................................................................................... 10

Feast Days................................................................................................................................. 11

The Horn of Hirn .......................................................................................................................... 13

The Mountain............................................................................................................................ 13

Entering the Kingdom of .......................................................................................................... 15

Karak Hirn ................................................................................................................................ 15

Villages and Mining Camps...................................................................................................... 17

Black Mountain Villages ...................................................................................................... 17

Mining Camps....................................................................................................................... 18

Lurking Dangers ....................................................................................................................... 18

Bandits .................................................................................................................................. 18

Demonologists and Necromancers ....................................................................................... 18

Giants .................................................................................................................................... 19

Griffons ................................................................................................................................. 19

Lizardmen (Saurus)............................................................................................................... 19

Minions of Chaos .................................................................................................................. 19

Ogres ..................................................................................................................................... 19

Orcs and Goblins................................................................................................................... 20

Skaven................................................................................................................................... 20

Slavers................................................................................................................................... 20

Trolls ..................................................................................................................................... 20

Werewolves........................................................................................................................... 21

Inside Karak Hirn.......................................................................................................................... 21

A. The Inner Citadel ................................................................................................................. 21

B. Under Pasture ....................................................................................................................... 23

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C. Hall of Kings ........................................................................................................................ 24

D. Hall of Temples.................................................................................................................... 24

E. Hall of Tombs....................................................................................................................... 25

F. Hall of Clans ......................................................................................................................... 26

G. Hall of Runesmiths............................................................................................................... 28

H. Hall of Loremasters.............................................................................................................. 28

I. South Mines........................................................................................................................... 29

J. West Mines............................................................................................................................ 30

K. The Merchant Halls.............................................................................................................. 30

1. Constabulary ..................................................................................................................... 31

2. Stables and Caravansary ................................................................................................... 32

3. Branmuffin’s Eatery......................................................................................................... 32

4. Inn of the Mountain Traveller........................................................................................... 32

5. Courthouse ........................................................................................................................ 32

Sidebar: Dwarf Law .............................................................................................................. 33

6. Hall of Guilds................................................................................................................... 33

7. Elassir’s Books................................................................................................................. 34

8. Black Crevasse Tavern .................................................................................................... 34

9. Grunna’s Boarding House................................................................................................ 34

10. Bardin’s Winery............................................................................................................. 34

11. Frau Blücher’s Kitchen .................................................................................................. 35

12. The Cavern..................................................................................................................... 35

13. Golden Nugget ............................................................................................................... 36

14. Old World Oddities........................................................................................................ 36

15. Backdoor Inn.................................................................................................................. 37

16. Hall of Shrines ............................................................................................................... 37

L. Emissary Hall ....................................................................................................................... 37

17. Embassy of Karak Izor................................................................................................... 38

18. Imperial Embassy........................................................................................................... 38

19. Embassy of Karak Gantuk ............................................................................................. 38

20. Wissenland Embassy ..................................................................................................... 38

21. Mortensholm Embassy................................................................................................... 38

22. Miragliano Embassy ...................................................................................................... 38

Adventure Hooks .......................................................................................................................... 39

Raid on an Orc Village ......................................................................................................... 39

To Bait a Trap ....................................................................................................................... 39

Tilean Games ........................................................................................................................ 40

Appendix One-Kings of Karak Hirn............................................................................................. 42

Appendix Three-Gazetteer of Karak Hirn .................................................................................... 45

Map 1. Realm of Karak Hirn ............................................................................................... 47

Map 2. Karak Hirn area ....................................................................................................... 48

Map 3. Inside Karak Hirn .................................................................................................... 49

Map 4. Merchant Halls ........................................................................................................ 50

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Author’s Notes

Shortly after the release of the WFRP Dwarf

book, Dwarfs: Stone & Steel, I wrote for

Hogshead Publishing, I received comments

regarding the lack of a proper description of

a Dwarfhold in the text. My original

assumption when I wrote the book was that

the Dwarfs were secretive and not very

likely to let any non-Dwarf, including

Imperial emissaries within a Dwarfhold. As

time went on (with a little shove by several

close friends), I began to re-think this

hardened position, especially given the

gaming possibilities that could arise from

having some Humans live in the Dwarf

realms as subjects of the local Dwarfking.

From this shift in viewpoint, I wrote the

article on the Dawikoni (as these Humans

are called), which appeared in Warpstone

issue 19.

had felt that those examples should be

enough for GMs to revise their own Holds.

With Hogshead closing down (at least until

the company was sold), I decided to provide

more material to Warpstone with the hope of

helping keep WFRP alive until there was

further active support. Thus, I decided to

detail one of the larger Dwarfholds closest

to the Empire and outside the Worlds Edge

Mountains. The holds mentioned above are

all smaller and none really provides a sense

of how massively built the principal

Dwarfholds were.

In my view, every Dwarfhold has a unique

layout, even though many of them share

similar elements. GMs could simply use

some of the various halls and chambers

described herein, as well as any elements

from the smaller settlements mentioned

above, and tweak these to create any of the

other Dwarfholds as they see fit.

That article seemed to be a fair start, but it

wasn’t enough. In thinking on the subject, I

did depict a portion of Karak Eight Peaks in

the Dwarf book and three abandoned Dwarf

settlements have been “officially” covered –

Kadar Khalizad in Empire in Flames, Kadar

Gravning in Doomstones 2: Dwarf Wars,

and Karak Zulvor in Apocrypha 2: Charts of

Darkness – with descriptions and maps. I

A note for any reviewer who wishes to take

me to task for it, the description below

includes some of the same information

found in Dwarfs: Stone and Steel , pages 34-

36. I did so with the intent to make this

work as complete as possible.

Karak Hirn

With a population of 15,000, Karak Hirn, or

"Hornhold" is the largest and wealthiest of

the Black Mountain Dwarfholds. Rich veins

of iron, tin, copper, gold and silver are found

deep under Karak Hirn as are deposits of

sapphires, emeralds, tourmalines, topazes,

garnets, aquamarines, and quartz of various

colours.

Founded in -1185 of the Imperial calendar,

Karak Hirn does not rival the Dwarfholds of

the World's Edge Mountains in terms of

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wealth or power, even though it is closer and

more accessible to the markets of the

southern Empire and Tilea (by way of the

northern Border Princes). This position

makes Karak Hirn ideal as a trading centre

for Dwarf work from the older holds to the

east. In fact, there is a route through the

Black Mountains favoured by merchants

from Karaz-a-Karak which enables them to

avoid the more dangerous routes through the

Border Princes.

Badlands northward through the land that

would later be called the Border Princes.

The armies of Karak Hirn defeated a number

of these rampaging forces to retain control

of the mountain passes.

One consequence of the Dwarf effort against

the greenskins was to keep the land north of

the Black Mountains relatively clear of their

foe, thereby allowing Humanity time to

firmly establish itself in this wild land.

History

Trade with the Tribes

Human tribes had been migrating to the

north for millennia before the Dwarfs

dispersed into the western mountains from

the Worlds Edge Mountains under pressure

from Orcs and Goblins. Initially, trade

between Dwarfs and the Humans was

infrequent and restricted to lesser goods,

particularly to maintain the Dwarfs’

technological edge in weaponry. The war

with the greenskins and the fall of the

Worlds Edge Dwarfholds changed the

Dwarfs’ calculations.

Many elements of the history of Karak Hirn

is shared are other Dwarfholds in the

mountains outside the Worlds Edge.

The Dwarf Schism

In response to the founding of Karak Izor

(-1362 I.C.), High King Morgrim

Blackbeard of Karaz Ankor angrily declared

that the Dwarf clans preferring to establish

new holds in the western mountains instead

of returning to defend the Dwarf Empire

were traitors to the race. He entered all clan

names in his personal Book of Grudges. In

return, the leaders of the clans in the Black

and Grey Mountains, as well as the Vaults,

returned the contemptuous gesture. It was

their collective belief that the Dwarfs as a

race would remain vulnerable if they did not

establish new strongholds outside the

Worlds Edge Mountains.

With trade falling off with Karaz Ankor due

to the schism, Karak Hirn deepened their

economic relationship with the Human

tribes to the north. This effort was copied

by the other nearby Dwarfholds and

competition between the Karaks grew. The

rivalry between the Holds resulted in a

number of skirmishes between the various

clans.

With communications rent asunder for 1,000

years, Karak Hirn and the other Black

Mountain Dwarfholds carved out

relationships with one another as well as the

Dwarf settlements in the nearby mountain

ranges. Populations expanded and the

settlements thrived far from the war in the

east. Occasionally, small armies of

greenskins made their way from the

The clashes among Dwarf traders threatened

to damage relations among the western

Dwarfholds. King Zamnil Duraksson of

Karak Hirn and his counterparts from Karak

Izor and Karak Norn agreed to carve out

trading zones in the low-lying areas adjacent

to their realms. Karak Hirn secured the

monopoly with the Humans living between

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