Burning Mountain

The Burning mountain was the tallest mountain in the southernmost range of Winterspine Mountains, notable also for the smoke that rose from its many perforations along its slope. Unknown to most, this smoke was from Dwarven forges, but the name stuck even after this fact was brought to light.

The dwarves that lived in the burning mountain were reclusive and wrapped up in their internal politics and quarrels within their caste system to cater to diplomatic ties with outside races, so they were largely ignored by most for hundreds of years, until the Sundering happened.

The Sundering split the mountain in half, and the dwarven city was mostly reduced to ruin. The dwarven clans scattered as a great Red dragon awoke in the earthquakes and terrorized the dwarves in their weakened state. They withdrew for years, before Borgod the Brawler rose to fight the Dragon, defeating him and enslaving him for use in the dwarven forges. After which time, the city was rebuilt and named Burningbor in the common tongue, named after the hero Borgod himself, and the red dragon's burning mountain which he tamed.