Sundabar
City in The Silver Marches · Citadel Sundbarr (its old dwarven name)
Sundabar is a fortified city at the foot of the Nether Mountains, built on an old dwarven citadel and long the rampart of the North, until orcs took it in 1484 DR.
Thick walls of ancient dwarven stone shrug off the mountain wind, and the clang of smithies mixes with the bellowing of traders in the crowded market squares.
Sundabar at a glance
- Also known as
- Citadel Sundbarr (its old dwarven name), the rampart of the North
- Type & size
- Walled trading city, About 25,000 (before its fall in 1484 DR)
- Allegiance & rule
- Allegiance: One of the cities of Luruar, the league of the Silver Marches
- People & culture
- Humans, with dwarves making up about a third of the people and some gnomes and halflings; vigilant and wary of strangers
- Key exports & trade
- Weapons, armour and tools
- Copper, silver and gold
- Lumber, furniture, pelts and clay wares
Overview
Sundabar lies at the eastern end of the road from Silverymoon, where the Nether Mountains rise just to the west and the vast High Forest spreads to the south. It began as a dwarven citadel, Sundbarr, and its double walls and moat made it one of the hardest cities of the North to take.
The city was a crossroads: caravans carried goods between Silverymoon, Citadel Adbar, Citadel Felbarr and the dwarven holds, and Sundabar's smiths were famous across the Silver Marches.
The fall of Sundabar
In 1484 DR, during the War of the Silver Marches, an orc army led by the warlord Hartusk took the city, killed its surface population and renamed it Hartusk Keep. Blamed for sending too little help, Silverymoon lost the trust of the dwarven realms, and the league of the Silver Marches fell apart.
At the table
- Dwarves who escaped the fall of Sundabar want the party to recover their clan treasury from the tunnels beneath Hartusk Keep.
On the map
Roads from Sundabar
- SilverymoonRoad · 140 mi
Regions nearby
- Nether MountainsMountains · ~4 mi west
- The High ForestForest · ~33 mi south
Nearby places
- Stone StandTown · ~59 mi
- Citadel FelbarrCity · ~65 mi
- EverlundCity · ~89 mi
- Hellgate DellRuin · ~114 mi
- SilverymoonCapital · ~116 mi
- One StoneTown · ~124 mi
Distances as the crow flies, measured on our map.