This a dwarven fortress in the hills south of the swamp hag Grysella’s bog. Some say these hills “have eyes”. You can find big iron lances impaling a giant bronze heart every now and then in these hills. These lances mark the Red Heart Territories.
There are five clans: Fist, Ring, Axe, Pick, and Bolt.
These dwarves used to be ruled by the Arul Kings but their current king Rilog has disappeared. Shortly thereafter the chain devil Ygrorin came with presents and powers. He gave them the Halberd of the Night and tricked them into a thirty year war with the fish heads. The chain devil took council with Greknor of the Ring clan, also known as the eye council. He was a wicked dwarf with six eyestalks growing out of his neck. He was called an Emissary of Vazkhan.
The fortress was commanded by captain Feznior of the Bolt clan, a mighty warrior who wielded the glaive Marduk’s Betrayal. A weapon of great significance to Marduk. When he was killed the glaive was renamed to Marduk’s Hope and given to the new captain of the fortress, Rilfor, lord of the Fist.
All three were killed when Brónach of the forest and his friends arrived.
The slaves also mentioned the dreadful Whipmaster, a dwarf named Remboruk of the Pick clan. The party has seen this slaver before. At the time he was carrying a whip and a spiked chain leading ten new kobold slaves to the Red Heart fortress. When the fortress was freed, no sign of him was found.
When the chain devil came to power, some dwarves fled west and build a new city under the protection of the mighty Lammasu. They named this new city Perkozhod, or High Fastness. The dwarves had been living here for fifty years. They didn’t want to return to the Red Heart when it was freed.
The dwarf guard Piezka of the Fist clan had lost a son in the hills when the dwarves were looking for their lost king.