Belegar Ironhammer

Belegar Ironhammer is the heir to Karak Eight Peaks, the greatest and most tragic of the lost dwarf holds, and he has staked his life and his honour upon the impossible dream of taking it back. Once the jewel of the southern Karaz Ankor, the Eight Peaks fell ages ago and is now a three-sided battleground contested by the night goblins of the warlord Skarsnik, the ratmen boiling up from below, and Belegar's stubborn dwarfs clinging to the Citadel at its heart. Bearing the hammer and shield of his royal line, Belegar rules his precarious foothold with iron determination, beset on every side, his warriors dying by inches to hold ground his ancestors once held in glory. He knows the odds. He knows how many kings have tried and failed before him. He does not care. To Belegar, to abandon the Eight Peaks would be to abandon the dwarfs' very claim to greatness, and he would sooner be buried in its halls than surrender them. Whether he proves the hold's saviour or merely the latest name in its long roll of the fallen, only the mountain knows.