The Black Vein Basin
Once the richest industrial mining region outside the Thundering Heights, the Black Vein Basin supplied enough raw material to feed refineries across several nations. Its loss was one of the moments Diesel Dwarves understood that Xanaras threatened not only territory but the physical substance their
BEYOND THE SHIELD
Once the richest industrial mining region outside the Thundering Heights, the Black Vein Basin supplied enough raw material to feed refineries across several nations. Its loss was one of the moments Diesel Dwarves understood that Xanaras threatened not only territory but the physical substance their civilization depends upon.
Prospectors can still see exposed mineral bands from shieldline observation posts. Entire dwarf families retain legal claims to mines they cannot reach. Maps of the basin are treated less like history and more like promises.