Two hundred forty souls were lost in Akmanathel.
The baron extended about all his wealth to claim this spot on the far away mountain. The first seven and the 23 that followed them soon after all died of thirst when the initial booze stock ran dry. The first reclaim attempt, with seventy brave dwarfs were harassed by the awaken horrors of the chasm, causing several deaths and the frozen memories of those before drove them mad.
The baron pleaded with the King, he knew for certain that there was adamentine in that site, the most precious metal. Nother seventy were sent soon afterwards, from what records we could recover, they managed to get the glacier to partially melt and fill a cistern then irrigated a farm aware, but the vile monsters and hundred that came before weighed heavily on them, and seeing the corpse line the halls, blood of forlorn attempts staining the stairs, it drove them mad faster then the group before.
The Baron persuaded two dukes to offer the financing for nother reclaim attempt of the site, without the kings knowing, with temptations of adamentine. They saw the place soon after a winter storm, supplies were strewn through the area and the records for this shadow reclaim were not kept, we do not know what happen to them, except for a message on the entrance Krackatoen.
The King learned about the third attempt, and through the baron, and two dukes into the stockade for their wanton waste of dwarven life.
He dispatched a one group of heavily armed dwarfs, to learn what happen to the last seventy and to recover everything they could. The arrived at the spring of the next year, when the passage was clear. The horror they say as that the batmen, antmen cave swallowman were dragging corpes to the dining hall, and devouring them. They engaged with combat, and lost several members, to injured to walk, the commanding officer made the choice to stay their until the injured were well enough to walk. Though it took less then half the spring for the madness that weeps from the walls to drive them all insane. The first to go was a an ax dwarf that grew memorize from the ember glow of the magmaduct, and dived in after his own happiness. This drove other to depraved acts.
And two hundred forty lives were lost to Akamathel: The Glacier of Souls.
My first attempt at a extreme temperature map. Four reclaims, and I am giving up on this site, and its an excellent site.
Flux, iron, Chasm, magma pipe, HFS and at least one GCS for capture for the tenacious.
Each reclaim grew insane faster then the one before it. The place doesn't seem to have any buaxite, though there is aluninite so I wouldnt be surprised is there was buaxite somewhere in their.
No trees, no plants, lots of wildlife, not just the man creatures.
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