Dwarven Kings

[Silent Surrender]

Hello all. Im writing a story about Chaos Dwarfs. I dont know much about Dwarf hierarchy thats why I am asking this question.

I know there is one High king. But what about normal Dwarf Kings? Do they have one dwarf king to represent each major population?

Thanks for any replies!

[m1acca1551]

All the dwarf holds will have a king as a ruler, under him is the obvious princes and then thanes. Runesmiths, lore masterscand engineers also make up the ruling hierachy.

[The bearded one]

All major holds, and probably almost every minor hold except for the very smallest, will have their own king. Each king owes fealty to the high king, but are otherwise independent monarchs. Thanes are nobles and appointed for the office by the king, and the king is helped to rule by a council of revered longbeards, thanes, guildmasters etc.

[Athelassan]

Note though that the same doesn't apply to the Dawi Zharr, who are ruled by the clan of Sorcerers and have no secular king. Other Chaos Dwarfs, like those of Karak Vlag (debatable whether they even are CDs, mind) will probably retain much of their pre-fall hierarchy.

[The bearded one]

Note though that the same doesn't apply to the Dawi Zharr, who are ruled by the clan of Sorcerers and have no secular king. Other Chaos Dwarfs, like those of Karak Vlag (debatable whether they even are CDs, mind) will probably retain much of their pre-fall hierarchy.

Yeah, that's fairly debatable, considering the entire hold vanished into thin air.

[Athelassan]

Yeah- Tome of Corruption, if I recall correctly, said they had become Chaos Dwarfs. But that's the only place that any definitive fate of the hold has been recorded, and I don't expect it's a line that'll be followed in future.

[The bearded one]

Other information concerning Karak Vlag is that the entire hold disappears through chaos magic. A clan of dwarfs was out hunting goblins when it happened, and when they returned it was gone. These dwarfs headed south to Karak Ungor, but underway they were attacked by a daemonhost. They managed to fight them off and get to an outer garisson fort of Karak Ungor, when the daemons attacked again. A few dwarfs fought the rearguard in the fort while the remainder of the Karak Vlagians and the fort garisson escaped, but then they were once again attacked later on by Slaaneshand Tzeentch daemons in a valley. They might have survived and won, but a second daemonhost appeared behind them, a khornate one, because daemons never play fair and dwarfs are punchingbags, and none of the dwarfs survived.

Where is Karak Vlag supposed to be located according to tome of corruption? Not in the same place right?

[Athelassan]

It's not clear (there's no map), but it seems to be in the same place - at the northern end of the World's Edge Mountains, guarding a pass into Zorn Uzkul. It has it disappearing during the first Chaos Incursion rather than the Great War, though. Re-reading it now, though, it suggests that the Dwarfs of Karak Vlag became the Dawi Zharr we know and love after migrating south: I'd thought it had treated them as a separate people.