The Sacked Lands

The Sacked Lands, once known as "Dhurend" is a collection of three small islands far to the North. It was where the Dwarven races first settled. Many splinter groups of Dwarves left the islands, but eventually they were all forced off when the islands in their entirety were sacked by red dragons.

Geography
The Sacked Lands are a vast expanse of open plains, snowy mountains, narrow passages, large deserts, and thick forests.

The 'continent' is seperated into three islands in fairly close proximity to each other. The land is littered by Dwarven ruins that are all in various cultural styles. Nearly all of them are wrecked and populated by the hideous dragons that have made the continent their home.

History
Since most of Dhurend's history was lost, it's history is largely speculation and stories carried on by survivors of the sack, neither of which are very reliable.

As the stories go, it is believed that Dwarves eventually landed on Dhurend and colonized the islands. The Dwarves went through various petty squabbles and ocassionally clans fled the islands to form splinter groups, but for the most part the Dwarves were disorganized.

This was their downfall however. When dragons came to Dhurend, they seemed to appear from every direction, blotting out the sun with their monsterous wings. They apparently destroyed every city, village, and petty settlement on the islands, and left them three smoldering ruins. It is believed that less than ten-thousand escaped, and these Dwarves became the final splinter groups, one such splinter groups being the Dwarrows of Dwarrow Crossing.