Editing Daily Life Under the Shadow (section)

====The Kaladruns====
Unlike the war against the elves, in which orc armies
march en masse and the smoke and fire from the Burning
Line can be seen as a never-ending stain on the horizon, the
war against the dwarves is largely unseen. The orcs move
directly from the frozen north through the Icewall Mountains
and into the subterranean labyrinths of the Kaladruns. The
under-mountain rings with the clash of vardatch and spear
against axe and shield. Individual dwarven clans fight desperate
but hopeless holding actions against the uncountable
Shadow hordes. Some dwarven clans have survived by collapsing
every tunnel into their clanholds and praying to their
ancestors that the Shadow will pass them by.
Above the surface, the often impassable terrain has
allowed the Kurgun dwarves and their human allies to avoid
the worst ravages of the war. In the heights above Low Rock,
Dorn and Erenlander refugees have been able to carve homes
from the cliff sides, surviving thanks to their herds of boro
and goats. They watch in fear as the Night King Jahzir forms
a new army to strike at the dwarven clans from the south and
deny any hope to the former dwarven capital of Calador. The
southern Kaladruns and the foothills along the White Desert
have so far been mostly spared from the fighting. The clanholds
there are few, however, and have been so secluded that
they are unlikely to learn the lesson from their northern kin:
that uniting as one is the only hope in facing the orcs, who
gather even now near Drumlen.