The most famous of which is the Stonehammer Hall and the expansion of the Proving Grounds. This sparked the development of several construction projects in the city. Orzammar, Kal-Sharok, Kal'Hirol, and nine other thaigs, are considered 'great thaigs', as opposed to the numerous other thaigs as they were once the main centers of the dwarven empire.ДЄt -1170 Ancient (25 TE) King Endrin Stonehammer moved the capital of the dwarven empire to Orzammar to preside more directly over the commercial aspects of dwarven life, mining and crafting, as Orzammar was the ancestral seat of the Mining and Smith castes and because of the turmoil in the Tevinter Imperium following the death of the Archon Darinius. Kal-Sharok was the capital then, home to all the noble houses, and Orzammar was simply the home of the mining and smith castes. ДЄccording 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 aweвЂ“inspiring sight, a great city of stone standing within a vast cavern, poised over a sea of molten lava.

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