Tsardom of Norsengrad

Originally an underground empire, the Tsardom of Norsengrad was consumed by internal strife due to them having no external enemies that they could unite against. That was until an expedition that was exploring the farthest tunnels known to dwarfkind was found to be connected to what at the time was thought to me a ver big cavern.

When the Tsar heard of this, he thought that this would be the best chance to unite the dwarves as one to explore this never before seen biome. What they had thought to be a big cave turned out to be the surface of their world, long forgotten by their kind. And at the mouth of the cave they established the first city to be build by a united dwarf race in centuries. This came to be the city of Azmut.

The first race the dwarves made contact with were the orcs of Madenia, a culture made only for war. After a few battles with casualties on both sides, they found that there were more races than just the orcs. What they discovered was that they had come up from the Azul mountain range, unclaimed by the other races and nations.

Though this would not stay peaceful for long, for the elves of oakenland had gone through a bloody civil war years ago that tore the race of wood elves in two. With the traditional Wood Elves staying in their forests to the east of the Tsardom, and the changed race of Snow Elves to their west, the newly established surface Tsardom was stuck between two nations that could go to war at any second with them stuck inbetween.