The Landhold of Ano is the largest Dwarf-ruled domain in
Boriya, encompassing five of the old Thegndoms under the auspices of three great cavernholds and the city-port of Harbouring.
The capital of the Landhold is Cavernhold Rising, seat of the King Under-the-Mountain of Ano , who is the Eldest of the ZinRuk Dynasty, ruler of Ano, and Sacred Spouse of the chthonic deity called the Iron Throne. Cavernhold Ironheart is ruled by a cadet branch of ZinRuk under the King-on-the-Mountain of Ano. Between them, these two highly conservative holds control three out of the Landhold's five Holdings: Riverhead, Iron Deeps and the broad gulf of Bannervale between the Wilderpeaks and the Ironspine Mountains. The folk of these holdings are almost exclusively conservative dwarfs of the mountain kin.
The Holdings of Riversmeet and Steelshore, below the Ironspines, are home to modernists and 'outsiders', many of the latter being non-dwarfs whose families have lived there for generations. Riversmeet, around the confluence of the Giltwater and the Rustrun, is the industrial heart of Ano, home to the great watermills of Shipsreach - a lowland Cavernhold - which turn Ironspine steel and Wilderpeak gold into blades, tools, armour and constructs. It is run, not by a king, but by a Guild Council. Steelshore, meanwhile, answers to the Harbouring Commercial League, and is the place where Ano's goods are traded with actual outsiders.
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