Garyx
Scholars today know little of the keep’s founding though
draconic legends do speak of mighty fortress of similar description around the
close of the Dawn Ages, about twenty-five thousand years before man and elf
raised the Standing Stone.
In that distant time, a terrible war spanning a thousand
years had been raging between the mighty giant and dragon civilizations.
Throughout the long war, the merciless dragon armies led by terrible Garyx had
driven a wedge through the heart of Ostoria, leaving the fire giant realm of
Helligheim terribly weakened and isolated. Centuries earlier, the fire giants
had constructed twelve mighty fortresses across the breadth of Helligheim’s
southern frontier along the shore of the Dragons’ Sea. Though impressive
fortifications of earth and magic, one by one the citadels were overrun and
shattered by the Dragon King’s armies. By the time the merciful King-Killer
star appeared in the heavens to drive the wyrms into madness, only one remote
keep remained standing.
Helligheim endured for another century or two but the
Colossal Kingdom has been shattered and soon the defeated jotunbrud began
retreating further into the remote wilds of the north. Sealed and protected by
powerful runecasters, the lone basalt sentinel stood silently for several
millennia, abandoned and forgotten.
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