"Grea'nock"

Literally meaning "green rock," this term was used to describe the way the world was, back in the days of the beginning. Those were the days when Dagoth-the first evil-and his servants arrived in the world and began an epic war with the four houses of immortals. Those were the days when Kingsteel, a mortal man and warrior smith, defeated Dagoth-and there was hope.

Those days have gone. Kingsteel is long dead. The might of his blood is lost, and the four houses have grown secretive. In their shadow, the villages of men and dwarfs developed into vast empires-and turned...

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