Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25754873-20141212223656/@comment-67.22.249.68-20141215030247

Unknown to Glosur, to Eureka, or to Gil-Galad, there is a door set into the mountain. It is a small, unimpressive, an run-down door. The only two people ever to have seen that door were so utterly unimpressed they assumed it was a piece of ruined Dwarven architecture, very similar to the destroyed buildings just near it. These destroyed buildings are the ruins of Verelisk, a small Dwarven village abandoned long ago. A lot of the pillars are still standing, still supporting a few second floors and staircases. And, unfortunately for those two people, there are a LOT of places for well-hidden Orc snipers to lie in wait.

However, behind this too-small-to-fit-a-siege-engine-through and exceptionally unimpressive door there lies something considerably more impressive. One will see a huge, long, natural-looking cave. In this cave, one will see Cave trolls and regular trolls lumbering about with their clubs. One will generally not survive that.

At the very end of this big, long, Troll-infested cave, there is a gate. It is an enormous gate. It is made of solid GRanite, and it is Mithril-laced. It requires the strength of two Cave Trolls to open, and a squadron of eight Cave Trolls is always waiting behind it, just in case someone breaks through. Atop the two towers on either side of the gate there is a Ballista capable of launching vicious barbed spears. And, finally, behind that, one will see the most impressive thing of all. A city many leagues long and even more leagues high has been built into the depths of Mt. Gundabad. It has twenty levels, and it is a huge network of caverns and tunnels. To anyone who hadn't grown up there, it is more of a maze than a city. Even if you do know your way around it it takes twelve hours to get from the bottom to the top. On top of that, Trolls and Cave Trolls lumber about constantly, and every single citizen is armed. And there are many, many citizens. For this is a city of Orcs.

it was established in secret during the third age by an Orc named Keredrex. This Orc has a peculiar perk to him: he is very smart. There was never an Orc or Uruk quite as smart as him. He dug this city out under everyone's nose, and he stole much Mithril from the Dwarves in his surroundings. His throne hall is in the very top level.

This is why the Under Mountain is a city like no other. Keredrex has calculated every outcome, allowed for every event, to the point where the Under Mountain has become nigh-untakeable.

Keredrex himself is taller than most orcs, yet somewhat skinnier. His armor is exceptionally spiky. SERIOUSLY spiky. On the surface, it appears to be made out of common Orc steel. However, that's simply on the surface. Underneath, his armor is made of Mithril. It's an amusing jab at the state of Mt. Gundabad. On the surface it appears ordinary, even mundane. But underneath, there's something spectacular and indestructible.

Keredrex is an Orc without mercy. No heart, but far too much brain. And he regards himself as the lord of the Misty Mountains. He believes his city is far greater than Khazad-Dum ever will be, but he still doesn't take kindly to a Dwarf lord upstart, a washed-out hero from a thousand years ago, and a weird Ender-robot-Elf thing taking his second best city.