Currently due to Sylvanost’s leadership closing their border to the Lesia Realm, The Dwarves have also closed their border and ceased their trade agreements.
Population: 1100 (65% Dwarf, 30% Human, 5% Orc/Green-skins)
Anvil is Lesia’s main producer of metals and cut stone. Most of the populations are miners, masons, blacksmiths, or warriors.
Though less than a third of the population are Dwarves, the tough and gruff mentality resounds through the entire population giving it a very Dwarven feel. The small population of Ogres, while controversial, is extremely useful in the mines. Anvil is famous for Anvil Roc, the Sky-Lift, the Octasm, the Stone Table (an ancient ritual table now used for feasts), the Iron Bar (a pub). Many different clans live within the City and co-exist together. The weapons the Dwarves can produced cannot be matched in quality and power. Many named weapons the Dwarves have smithed and their clan name stamped before passing it on.
Ongoing threats to Anvil are the Ogres from Oargrim-Tor, Harpies from Hark-Korbin, Spiders from the Dark Forest and Gnolls from the Marble Hills. In the winter there are also some creatures from the glacier maze.
Anvil is called Anvil because it is built on Anvil Rock. Anvil rock is a huge anvil-shaped rock that sits in the middle of a glacial valley between two mountain ranges, the Marble Mountains and the Boulder Mountains. Glaciers eroded both sides of the plateau until it became a long strip of rock with overhangs on every edge. There is a huge central octagonal shaft that was cut out of the centre of Anvil Rock ages ago. The shaft has been called the Octasm, and goes deep underground before branching out into collapsed tunnels. Most of the town is built on the top of the plateau, with a small section of the city extending into the Octasm shaft for easier access to the underground mines. The town’s perch on the top of Anvil rock makes it extremely hard to attack, but also quite awkward to access. Currently the only way to the top is the Sky-Lift, a crane mounted on the tip of Anvil Rock that carries everything up and down. Understandably, once a Dwarf has suffered the trip up, they never risk the trip back down. The Dwarves are currently building a stone door at the base of Anvil Rock and a great stairway that climbs up the edge of the rock’s interior.