Confedracy of Niria

Confederacy of Niria
The Confederacy of Niria is a confederation of predominately dwarven city-states and minor holdings that formed in the region of the former thanedoms of Upper and Lower Niria. The country was created by the Treaty of Ard Ben in the year 674 TA, when the dwarves of the region decided to unify against the mounting foreign threats. The country stretches from the mountains of the Tall Teeth to the Plain of Verrne, a total land area of over 36,000 square miles. There were nine main cities in the Confederacy, the three largest being the cities of Ardben, Dunglás and Undstan. Although the Confederacy offically does not have a capital, the de facto capital is the city of Dunglás, which lies on the flat lands of the Plain of Verrne.

Threats from Outside
The impetus for the creation of the Confederacy of Niria was the events in the early and middle centuries of the Third Age. The first was the rise of orcish civilisations and realms in the south and east of Aeolia and their rise in power. The orcs of these regions, who had for long times had been falsely portrayed as poor primitive savages, had developed

The Kingdom of Lo'Hashan expanded so rapidally in the seventh century TA that the third Chief King, Xoros II, besieged, sacked and razed the city of Faoislibh in 667 TA. The second threat came from the men of Elenlaurnia, who sought to

The third Cheif King of Lo'Hashan, Xoros II, expanded his domain rapidally and in 667 TA he besieged

in the southern Aeolia and the sudden

The later centuries of the Second Age