Vahtov

Vahtov was once one of the greatest cities of the High Desert of Zakhara.

Inhabitants
During the mid 900s DR a motley group composed of dwarf nomads from the Mountains of the Lizard's Tongue and human refugees from the House of Nasr joined together to excavate rumored gem and gold deposits beneath the Pit of the Ghuls. The settlement they founded became known as Vahtov, or "fated fortune" in the dwarven tongue.

Description
The early enterprise succeeded; producing a mountain of emeralds and turquoise and tons of gold. Much of this new found wealth was invested into improving the rapidly growing settlement. Palatial homes, streets of onyx, and silver watch towers soon dotted the city scape.

History
Eventually the dwarf/human relationship soured- the dwarves grew tired of doing all of the hard work, and the humans weary of protecting the dwarves all of the time. Civil war erupted when an emerald mine collapsed on the dwarves and the humans refused to help. This prompted the dwarves to purposefully collapse all of the remaining mines. In retaliation, the humans destroyed the dwarven temples by using sorcery. Constant retaliatory strikes reduced the city of Vahtov to rubble after one year of conflict.