Kamde Harbor

Diederich Kamde was said to be an enthusiastic adventurer. Although he wasn't possessed of any sort of aptitude for the blade, nor did he practice magic, and he hadn't the faintest idea of how to properly operate a bow, Diederich was possessed of something entirely unique and impossible to learn, luck. Diederich was born in the insignificant hamlet known as "Tree Cross," so named due to the large and unnaturally sprawling tree that sat at the intersection of the two major roads that met at the center of town, located in the Eastern World in central Zabrun. And so, it was said that luck alone had guided his safe passage across the deep seas, aboard a merchant vessel which was said to have sunk only months after Diederich's voyage with the crew, and from the last harbor the ship, ironically known as "Lucky Rose," was seen in, the harbor known as Boulder Fall Harbor, and from there, the Avrarlum Dwarf harbor, where he learned of the trade of precious metals and weapons, he got the clever idea to search for dwarves in Arrotha. And thus, Diederich made his journey from the western shores of Straephus to to the eastern shores of Arrotha and spent several months, alongside a notable monk who was later known for opening his own monastery and having claimed "Diedrich's luck rubs off on people," Diederich happened upon a rather unknown group of dwarves known as the "Greystone" dwarves who had begun carving a grand mine in the southern reaches of Nin Thoram.

Somehow, perhaps with significant assistance from his traveling companion, the monk known as "Mao-Zan," Diederich was able to establish a friendship with the dwarves, even said to have worked in their mines for several long months until winter passed. The Greystone dwarf's mine would later be known as Bel Buldohr, and Diederich would later create a small tradepost on the shores to the southeast of Nin Thoram. He and his monk friend would often travel far along the western-reaching roads to kingdoms that once resided in the now desolate Voiceless Valley. Soon, word of the magnificent metals and weapons coming from a small tradepost on the southeastern ridge of the Nin Thoram mountains brought ambitious entrepreneurs, and the small tradepost soon flourished into a hamlet. Soon, a small harbor was built in town, sending fine weapons around to other ports in Arrotha and nearby harbors in the Western World, and little by little, the small trading post established by Diederich and Mao-Zan became a flourishing city.

Despite not being the most popular harbor in Arrotha due to its location, the availability of fine weapons and minerals from the Greystone Dwarfs led to formation of Kamde Harbor, a place that served for centuries as a connection between the dwarves in the mountain and the societies of man. Unlike the Avrarlum Dwarves who were known to do business with non-dwarf tradesman directly and with zeal, the Greystone Dwarves managed most of their trade agreements with the citizens of Kamde Harbor, a relationship long ago predicated by one lucky man, Diederich Kamde, who is still eternalized as a statue in the city square of Kamde Harbor.