Dorrath Hold

Dorrath Hold is where Othryn’s old mountain powers are required to become one kingdom. Representatives of the holds come to its great hall because House Skarn summons them. Royal decisions establish external trade, ore quotas, customs, export prices, military obligations, and warrants that apply across the moon whether every affected house was present or not. Tharic officers attend when the matter touches the vassal’s service.

The capital occupies both walls of a narrow glacial valley beneath immense peaks. Residential terraces, workshops, reservoirs, protected gardens, transit routes, landing platforms, fortified gates, and defensive works are cut directly into the stone. Above them, a monumental assembly hall spans the valley at a scale conceived before the kingdom could justify it. The structure now performs the claim its builders intended: every route through the city rises toward a court larger than any single hold.

House Skarn’s crown controls the high ports, the Iron Stair, royal customs, armies, external prices, and every warrant issued in Othryn’s name. Mining houses retain their workings, wealth, household authority, and old privileges, but they may no longer bargain independently with Kharad. A hold arrives at Dorrath with its own Sealer to protect what it need not disclose and faces Assayers who test the declarations on which royal revenue depends.

The kingdom was built to prevent foreign contracts from acquiring Othryn one stronghold at a time. Dorrath embodies that settlement without erasing the houses beneath it. Their local power remains real inside mines, estates, and inherited privileges; the crown begins where ore, soldiers, roads, or agreements leave those bounds. Outsiders expecting several sovereign strongholds are still received courteously. They are no longer permitted to negotiate with them separately.