Mithral Hall
City in Cold Wood, The Silver Marches
Mithral Hall is a dwarven stronghold of Clan Battlehammer in the Frost Hills, famous for its mithral mines and for the dwarf king Bruenor Battlehammer, who reclaimed it from a shadow dragon.
Hammers ring endlessly through torchlit halls carved deep under the Frost Hills, and the glint of mithral catches the light of the forges.
Mithral Hall at a glance
- Type & size
- Dwarven underground stronghold, About 5,000 (1372 DR)
- Allegiance & rule
- Allegiance: Clan Battlehammer; an ally of the dwarven and human realms of the Silver Marches
- Ruled by: The king of Clan Battlehammer and the clan elders
- People & culture
- Mostly shield dwarves, with deep gnomes, gold dwarves and a few humans and friends of the clan; proud, loyal and hard on enemies
- Key exports & trade
- Mithral
- Weapons, armour and fine metalwork
Overview
Mithral Hall lies beneath Fourthpeak in the Frost Hills, part of the Spine of the World. Its mines once made Clan Battlehammer rich, until the dwarves were driven out by a shadow dragon and its servants. Generations later Bruenor Battlehammer, with companions including the drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden, retook the hall.
Since then Mithral Hall has fought several wars against the orcs of the Spine of the World, who later founded their own Kingdom of Many-Arrows close by.
In adventures
The hall makes a good ally or patron for a party in the Silver Marches: the dwarves trade in mithral, need help on their frontier and know the tunnels of the Underdark beneath the hills.
On the map
Roads from Mithral Hall
- SettlestoneRoad · 10 mi
Regions nearby
- Cold WoodForest · Mithral Hall lies within it
- The Spine of the WorldMountains · ~4 mi south-west
- The EvermoorsMoor · ~45 mi south-west
Nearby places
- SettlestoneTown · ~9 mi
- MenzoberranzanDungeon · ~18 mi
- NesméTown · ~44 mi
- One StoneTown · ~73 mi
- SilverymoonCapital · ~91 mi
- EverlundCity · ~150 mi
Distances as the crow flies, measured on our map.