Dôlmuzûn

{
  "aliases": [
    "the Vein-Hold",
    "the Paying Hold"
  ],
  "content": {
    "culture": "Practical, acquisitive, and comparatively open \u2014 D\u00f4lmuz\u00fbn takes apprentices from outside Namuzdus, which Kurnumgrath considers close to sacrilege. Status attaches to output and to the quality of a vein-read. The holdfast\u0027s craft-work is excellent and unromantic.",
    "description": "D\u00f4lmuz\u00fbn is the working heart of Namuzdus \u2014 a holdfast built around the Kori-resonant alloy veins rather than around a hall, and expanded so often and so pragmatically that its plan is notoriously incoherent. It is loud, hot, crowded, and by some distance the wealthiest place in the mountain, and its galleries run further out toward the passes each generation.",
    "economy": "Deepmetal extraction above all, with the associated crafts: assaying, resonance-testing, the grading of stock, and the preparation of raw alloy for carriage. The holdfast maintains the export register and the standing contracts with Izheim, and the traffic that leaves through Varkgrum and down the Tuzraag relays is scheduled here.",
    "politics": "The seat of the trade faction and the architect of the Stonecrown Schism\u0027s resolution in favour of the gnome alliance. Its standing argument is unsentimental: the mountain has never fed itself, it did not feed itself before the Accord either, and independence that depends on nobody wanting what you have is not independence but obscurity. D\u00f4lmuz\u00fbn regards the isolationist revival as a luxury belief held by a holdfast that no longer has to make payroll.",
    "relation_to_namuzdus": "One of the three founding holdfasts of the Triple Spire pact, Fifth Age 721 (MV 10327). Holds the largest single bloc of Council seats by master-crafter count.",
    "significance": "The source of the Deepmetal on which the Dominion\u0027s economy, its alliance with Izheim, and both of its wars with Revakgol have turned. What D\u00f4lmuz\u00fbn decides to dig, the Council eventually ratifies."
  },
  "id": "settlements.dolmuzun",
  "meta": {
    "note": "Named in history.events.the_gathering_at_three_spires; carries the Deepmetal economy established in the_deepmetal_accord.",
    "status": "proposed"
  },
  "name": "D\u00f4lmuz\u00fbn",
  "native": "",
  "relations": {
    "geographic_location": [
      "Namuzdus",
      "Silgolt"
    ],
    "related_organizations": [
      "Stonecrown Council",
      "Namuzdus Dominion",
      "Republic of Izheim"
    ],
    "related_species": [
      "Kaetijul"
    ]
  },
  "sources": {},
  "subtype": "holdfast",
  "summary": "The richest of the three founding holdfasts of Namuzdus and the one that pays for the state: D\u00f4lmuz\u00fbn sits on the Deepmetal veins whose discovery made the Deepmetal Accord possible and whose export makes the Dominion solvent. It carried the internationalist side of the Stonecrown Schism and won it, administers the Echoforge Compact with Izheim, and has never entirely stopped being told by Kurnumgrath that wealth is not seniority.",
  "tags": [
    "namuzdus",
    "kaetijul",
    "holdfast",
    "deepmetal",
    "silgolt",
    "echoforge"
  ],
  "timeline": {},
  "type": "settlement"
}