
Kal-Sharok was the capital then, home to all the noble houses, and Orzammar was simply the home of the mining and smith castes. Īccording to the dwarven history, the dwarven empire once spread across all of Thedas, and that the underground city-fortresses called thaigs were almost beyond counting. Now only Orzammar stands-the last bastion of the dwarven race and its finest creation. With each generation, more of the Deep Roads had to be sealed, more thaigs lost forever.

Countless thaigs were lost in the First Blight, when the darkspawn poured out of the Deep Roads like smoke. There the forges ring loudest, and the finest smiths create works that are the envy of all races.

It is an awe–inspiring sight, a great city of stone standing within a vast cavern, poised over a sea of molten lava.
