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Where the seven mapped roads of the Underdark section referred to as "The True Dark" converge and pass to the section primely controlled by the Dwarves known as, "The Windy Dark" stands one of the oldest Dwarven forts, stands: Caer Crugog. The fort has many designs that went into its creation, natural paths were bent, sealed or narrowed to make the distance between intersections, and paths between the various roads, hundreds of miles away from the fort. This design was created to break an armies supply lines, and choking the hordes the fort faced in its early days. The seven roads first meet The Drochaid Fala, the seven great bridges that act as extended killing fields, the shortest being the lowest level, while the longest being the the highest as the top terrace is the furthest from the other side all crossing Fala's fall, a cavernous miles long canyon that torches vanish into before they hit the ground. rumored to drop directly into the elemental plain of earth's acidic ocean. The Fort itself was built on a hard slope, with Caer Crugog closer resembling 7 forts built directly on top of each other in great terraces. Each level is referred to by thier level mostly with thier full names being; Caer Crugog-Ze being the lowest level, Caer Crugog-Nu, Caer Crugog-Gem, Caer Crugog-Ramekh, Caer Crugog-Gamekh. Caer Crugog-Ges and finally Caer Crugog-haded being the highest. (After the hyphen is a number in the Dwarf language) The design goes further as each fort pains itself to be shorter then the fort behind it, with retractable small bridges connecting them all, internal water wheels running off the many rivers and lakes that were redirected from higher levels powering them, whle the wheels themselves designed to carry arrows and supplies to the top of each constantly; the fins being large enough for two dwarves or a barrel. The other way to the top of each tower are staircases that would make Novice stone smiths rip their hair out, Masters cry and Grand Master Castle Builders proud, as the patterns mixed with the cross hatching gashes on the right hand ascending side, as well as the ceilings of these stairwells, as the gashes are designed to catch the blade of invaders running up the stairs, while the stuttering pattern of the Stairs matches the rhythm of an ancient dwarf lullaby with each stairwell matching a verse in the song, with the first verse starting in Caer Crugog-Nu's towers, the last one ending in Haded's tower. Ensuring those that don't know the song might have trouble rushing up the stairs to again slow down invaders. The Towers have one last secret, water can be redirected to flood from the tower of each fort, independently of the others with an enchantment , that can be triggered with a single secret word entitled to only the commander of the induvial levels, when spoken by a dwarf who has the highest military rank in the fort causes the towers to open like a flower, exposing the stairs on the inside, while the stairs themselves cork screwing downwards, taking that high ground of a fallen fort out of the fight.

The Drochaid Fala also has their own defenses, not speaking to the separate waterfall towers. The bridges have small railings, close to knee high, but not meant to protect, but meant to channel water as just like the towers them self, water can be redirected to flow across each bridge, with the higher bridges having spouts to redirect water that was now useless to them to the next lower bridge, but besides flooding the water itself is charged with electric runes up and down each bridge, cuasing the water to not only to be a hazard for walking, but for hazing and damaging any would be invaders. The last defensive measure are the Barb-Balls. Large balls of metal wire, designed to expand to the size of a horse drawn carriage, and contract to the size of a 5 lb canon ball. Made of a multitude interlocking rings, that can be attached to a Grenard hopper; a clockwork barrel of grenades' that ejects a grenade with every rotation, lastly, each bridge has small catches on every side, designed to catch the barb ball, its weight, and momentum yanks the hook and their connected thin blades of razor wire and set up to swing at thigh Hight (for a dwarf) just above the lower bridges, while the expanding and contracting design allows for ease of retrieval, as each blade rope chain can be pulled up and threw the inner bridge channels, taking the blade barb back into the base to be reloaded and set right back out.

1. The fortification also includes a regiment of iron Golems with 21 being the on duty golems while others are generally going threw upkeep, and all are well tended, thoroughly controlled with a team of 50 mages set up for the golems, 7 of the iron Golems are Archers and sit on the terraced buildings, the other 14 have a mixture of spears and shields. While the archers stand Next to the various siege engines, on the terraces the iron soldiers stand by the various entrances. The terraced floors themselves are each a fort in their own rights having a parade ground, officer quarters, barracks, hospital central command center, various guard houses, repair and main forges mess halls and the typical fair along with brass tubes for communication that travel under the grounds and reinforced to stand against if the connecting tunnels need to be collapsed, further then just their normal field seal , which involves a large iron beam that is stuck between a internal compartment and the top of the sliding stone doors, and, these seals are air tight to account for the flooding that the whole of the fort can go threw. How the flooding works is a separate matter altogether as a river flows over and out into Fala's water spout, and into the void, in times of seige the water is redirected to flow down and across the bridges and have ended fights before they have begun, the same act as redirecting the water to the bridge can be used to seal the forts against each other, if not being redirected to power various parts, the water comes out of a spout under the fortress, with the tunnel being gated thrice over with a permanent wall of force enforced here, while the flowing water is charged before it leaves the spout as well as the entirety of the iron mouth of the spout is electrified and will release a charge on any non grounded Individual.

    
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   The 7 bridges also have the great wheel towers, towers that are nearly forts upon them selves, set up on either side of the sets of bridges . These towers consist of 5 rows of 7 chambers that are connected to the center of the wheels on either side. with one row is always hidden as these wheel are always connected to all levels, with a command chamber to to communicate to all 35 chambers ,with internal brass tubes for just that. With each wing of 7 chambers can have any where between 25 man to 80 men., with 7 of these 35 chambers being where these personal stay, sleep and eat, but just like the fort itself the wheels can be sealed by the personal from all levels, and if the last fort is sealed from the wheel the wheel can rotate to separate rarely used stations that has enough supplies for the occupants to grab some materials and retreat, but should only be used if the forts are lasts completely. These wheel towers in times of siege also act as a landing spot for Owl mounted dwarves. These war wheels as the dwarves who live here call it, along with ballista, catapults, scorpions, trebuchets, have a mass of rifles and mounted cross bows that can be used if if reloading needs to happens. and water can be directed in clear waterfalls from above said wheels to cut off enemy fire between reloads, orcs who have tried to take the fort multiple times knows that if it clear expect pain and projectiles.

Where the seven mapped roads of the Underdark section referred to as "The True Dark" converge and pass to the section primely controlled by the Dwarves known as, "The Windy Dark" stands one of the oldest Dwarven forts, stands: Caer Crugog. The fort has many designs that went into its creation, natural paths were bent, sealed or narrowed to make the distance between intersections, and paths between the various roads, hundreds of miles away from the fort. This design was created to break an armies supply lines, and choking the hordes the fort faced in its early days. The seven roads first meet The Drochaid Fala, the seven great bridges that act as extended killing fields, the shortest being the lowest level, while the longest being the the highest as the top terrace is the furthest from the other side all crossing Fala's fall, a cavernous miles long canyon that torches vanish into before they hit the ground. rumored to drop directly into the elemental plain of earth's acidic ocean. The Fort itself was built on a hard slope, with Caer Crugog closer resembling 7 forts built directly on top of each other in great terraces. Each level is referred to by thier level mostly with thier full names being; Caer Crugog-Ze being the lowest level, Caer Crugog-Nu, Caer Crugog-Gem, Caer Crugog-Ramekh, Caer Crugog-Gamekh. Caer Crugog-Ges and finally Caer Crugog-haded being the highest. (After the hyphen is a number in the Dwarf language) The design goes further as each fort pains itself to be shorter then the fort behind it, with retractable small bridges connecting them all, internal water wheels running off the many rivers and lakes that were redirected from higher levels powering them, whle the wheels themselves designed to carry arrows and supplies to the top of each constantly; the fins being large enough for two dwarves or a barrel. The other way to the top of each tower are staircases that would make Novice stone smiths rip their hair out, Masters cry and Grand Master Castle Builders proud, as the patterns mixed with the cross hatching gashes on the right hand ascending side, as well as the ceilings of these stairwells, as the gashes are designed to catch the blade of invaders running up the stairs, while the stuttering pattern of the Stairs matches the rhythm of an ancient dwarf lullaby with each stairwell matching a verse in the song, with the first verse starting in Caer Crugog-Nu's towers, the last one ending in Haded's tower. Ensuring those that don't know the song might have trouble rushing up the stairs to again slow down invaders. The Towers have one last secret, water can be redirected to flood from the tower of each fort, independently of the others with an enchantment , that can be triggered with a single secret word entitled to only the commander of the induvial levels, when spoken by a dwarf who has the highest military rank in the fort causes the towers to open like a flower, exposing the stairs on the inside, while the stairs themselves cork screwing downwards, taking that high ground of a fallen fort out of the fight.

The Drochaid Fala also has their own defenses, not speaking to the separate waterfall towers. The bridges have small railings, close to knee high, but not meant to protect, but meant to channel water as just like the towers them self, water can be redirected to flow across each bridge, with the higher bridges having spouts to redirect water that was now useless to them to the next lower bridge, but besides flooding the water itself is charged with electric runes up and down each bridge, cuasing the water to not only to be a hazard for walking, but for hazing and damaging any would be invaders. The last defensive measure are the Barb-Balls. Large balls of metal wire, designed to expand to the size of a horse drawn carriage, and contract to the size of a 5 lb canon ball. Made of a multitude interlocking rings, that can be attached to a Grenard hopper; a clockwork barrel of grenades' that ejects a grenade with every rotation, lastly, each bridge has small catches on every side, designed to catch the barb ball, its weight, and momentum yanks the hook and their connected thin blades of razor wire and set up to swing at thigh Hight (for a dwarf) just above the lower bridges, while the expanding and contracting design allows for ease of retrieval, as each blade rope chain can be pulled up and threw the inner bridge channels, taking the blade barb back into the base to be reloaded and set right back out.

1. The fortification also includes a regiment of iron Golems with 21 being the on duty golems while others are generally going threw upkeep, and all are well tended, thoroughly controlled with a team of 50 mages set up for the golems, 7 of the iron Golems are Archers and sit on the terraced buildings, the other 14 have a mixture of spears and shields. While the archers stand Next to the various siege engines, on the terraces the iron soldiers stand by the various entrances. The terraced floors themselves are each a fort in their own rights having a parade ground, officer quarters, barracks, hospital central command center, various guard houses, repair and main forges mess halls and the typical fair along with brass tubes for communication that travel under the grounds and reinforced to stand against if the connecting tunnels need to be collapsed, further then just their normal field seal , which involves a large iron beam that is stuck between a internal compartment and the top of the sliding stone doors, and, these seals are air tight to account for the flooding that the whole of the fort can go threw. How the flooding works is a separate matter altogether as a river flows over and out into Fala's water spout, and into the void, in times of seige the water is redirected to flow down and across the bridges and have ended fights before they have begun, the same act as redirecting the water to the bridge can be used to seal the forts against each other, if not being redirected to power various parts, the water comes out of a spout under the fortress, with the tunnel being gated thrice over with a permanent wall of force enforced here, while the flowing water is charged before it leaves the spout as well as the entirety of the iron mouth of the spout is electrified and will release a charge on any non grounded Individual.

    
2.  

   The 7 bridges also have the great wheel towers, towers that are nearly forts upon them selves, set up on either side of the sets of bridges . These towers consist of 5 rows of 7 chambers that are connected to the center of the wheels on either side. with one row is always hidden as these wheel are always connected to all levels, with a command chamber to to communicate to all 35 chambers ,with internal brass tubes for just that. With each wing of 7 chambers can have any where between 25 man to 80 men., with 7 of these 35 chambers being where these personal stay, sleep and eat, but just like the fort itself the wheels can be sealed by the personal from all levels, and if the last fort is sealed from the wheel the wheel can rotate to separate rarely used stations that has enough supplies for the occupants to grab some materials and retreat, but should only be used if the forts are lasts completely. These wheel towers in times of siege also act as a landing spot for Owl mounted dwarves. These war wheels as the dwarves who live here call it, along with ballista, catapults, scorpions, trebuchets, have a mass of rifles and mounted cross bows that can be used if if reloading needs to happens. and water can be directed in clear waterfalls from above said wheels to cut off enemy fire between reloads, orcs who have tried to take the fort multiple times knows that if it clear expect pain and projectiles.