Two centuries ago, the great Dwarf smith Durgeddin the Black and his clan were driven from their home in Mountain's Meet by a horde of Orcs. The horde plundered the dwarves' ancestral halls and slew all they could catch. Fleeing his enemies, Durgeddin led the destitute remnants of his clan in search of a new home. After years of wandering the Dotted Plains, the dwarves discovered a great cavern system beneath the Stone Tooth: a rugged, forested hill crowned by a bare rocky crag. There, Durgeddin and his followers founded the stronghold of Khundrukar, and used the fort as a base with which to wage decades of raids on orc tribes to the mountains north of them.
In the midst of these assaults, a member of Durgeddin's clan was captured by a powerful orc tribe during a raid, and the orcs learned of their enemy's hidden stronghold. Their chieftains raised a great army and marched on Khundrukar. In a hard-fought siege lasting months, the orcs tunneled around the dwarven defenses. When they finally stormed the place, they put all within to the sword, then carried off wagonloads of booty; this became known as the Smith's War.
In the years since the great battle, various creatures occupied the fort and used the place as a base for their raids. At other times, the caverns remained empty, save for the mindless and bloodthirsty monsters that haunted such places. Legends of the extraordinary blades forged in anger still surfaced from time to time in the lands near the Stone Tooth.
One such legend reached the ears of Yannick Azizi, the young Third Rider of Khazalet. He received word that orc raiders had been pillaging isolated farmsteads and camps in the hills north of the town. His squadron captured an orc warrior left for dead by its comrades and brought it back for questioning. Under the influence of enchantment magic, the orc divulged the location of the monsters' lair, a lonely hill called the Stone Tooth.
Now knowing its location and the possible magic within, Yannick put out a call for Adventurers to oust the orcs from Khundrukar.