Snowpeak is both the name of the tallest mountain in the Snowfell Mountains, and the name of the dwarven capital city. The dwarves settled Snowpeak long before any other permanent settlements in the Twin Crescents were formed.
Snowpeak is a wondrous, beautiful place, said to have “great seams of gold running like rivers through the stone”. Its halls and tunnels stretch up, down, and side-to-side. Massive caverns form different sections of the city. Elaborate chambers tunneled out over generations serve as homes for the dwarves who live underground.
The dwarves are well known for their defensive, isolationist nature. The mountain is entirely self-sealing. If the dwarves wished, they could close the gate to their kingdom and it would take a monumental effort to carve into the mountain to get at them.
Inside the mountain, they have large amounts of housing reserved for times of crisis, and food stores. Their military government has arranged that all disastrous contingencies are planned for.
Snowpeak Today
After Armageddon, Snowpeak had to be rebuilt as most of the city caved in on itself from massive earthquakes. It is still in the process of being rebuilt today.
Inside the City
From the outside, Snowpeak appears to simply be a series of great gateways and towers tucked into the snowdrifts among icy crags. On the inside of this subterranean metropolis lives a considerable population of Snowfell Dwarves. Snowpeak is full of forges and foundries that shoot sparks into the air day and night. The dwarves who live there are a hardy folk, used to toiling in the dark depths of the earth. The sound of hammers ringing out is never far away.
Outsiders have seldom seen Snowpeak’s great halls and the dwarves keep it that way. In Snowpeak’s outskirts and the above-ground dwarven forts, dwarves live in simple but practical stone huts whose interior space expands underground. Often, bedrooms and private rooms are tunneled beneath surface-dwarves’ homes.
Dwarves who live within Snowpeak are just as well-respected as dwarves who live outside. There is no social stigma against surface-dwarves. However, most dwarves wish they could live in their ancestral home.
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