Tharan'dul

''"We live to travel a thousand miles and arrive better than when we started." - Road Song, Hilgaran Hymn''

Tharan'dul is a Dwarven Nation in the Earth Gate Continent established after the destruction of Farheim at the start of the Sunless Age, following the migration of the Dwarven race out of the Dologothi Continent and what would later become Rag'dul. The migration to Tharan'dul has been largely mythologized in Dwarven culture as a heroic journey undertaken at one time by hundreds of thousands of Dwarves, leaving their destroyed homeland to seek a new place to thrive. Though some ancestral lineages claim to reach back to Farheim, the ruling clans in the new nation were largely working clans that were elevated in their roles as leaders of the migration. The Holdovich Dynasty is one such line, boasting the blood of Holdur Holdovich, a fleet leader and planter of the first flag on Tharan'duli soil.

The gargantuan Farhaul mountains and lush roving fields and hills of the Earth Gate Continent bless Tharan'dul with a thriving pastoral and mining economy. Dwarves live in spread-out settlements with great distances spanning between communities and on every imaginable vertical level. Their faith is polytheistic, favoring various Gods of toil and hearth, largely centering Hilgara - a goddess of strength, hearth, and milk.