Urd Thlol

"In those days, Urd Thlol was undisputedly the strongest city in the Mesonorth and one of the strongest in the entire continent. Its power was, of course, primarily due to its unbreachable walls, a mysterious remnant of the time before the Cairn Years. . ." - from The Ruination of Avalorium On the Eastern banks of the Glomefall River, twenty miles North of the Avalorian border, looms the ominous city-state of Urd Thlol. Built on the bones of a city that fell before the collapse of the Ancient Kingdoms, it is encircled by a wall of mystical black stone exactly four miles in diameter, which contributes greatly to its grim and menacing appearance. The nature and composition of the stone has never successfully analyzed or duplicated, but until the Night of the Wolf-Wind , it could not be damaged by any weapon or weather known to the continent. The ruins were discovered and resettled in the year 214 of the New Empire. Originally subject to the central authority of the capital at T