While the Order returned to Lakeshire to partake in a tournament, to further their image and cause, the Ninth Thane of Kol Ungor did not rest. His cabalist allies tracked the five orcs which had departed the Charspear stronghold on the mountain slopes, and he personally descended upon the ashen wastes to send them to their vile makers. The day after the tournament had finished, the Order was once again approached by Angrune, who brought with him one of the runic keys of his ancestral home, taken from the bodies of the orcs that had been tracked.
With the key to Kol Ungor in the possession of their Dark Iron associate, the Order traversed the fiery cavern of Blackrock Mountain and made for a secluded crag on its northwestern slope. Fighting their way through the Charspear Legion's scouts, they came upon the entrance to the Blackchar Caverns, a system of winding, deep lava passages running to the roots of Blackrock itself.
Angrune led the way through those passageways, recalling better times when they would be travelled, and soon the blackstone tunnels led to a wider and more open expanse, situated outside a solid stone bunker. Here the Order rested, but not before encountering a citrine fury of the earth itself, a towering, monolithic elemental of granite and crystal-stone. With its defeated, they stood at the brink of Kol Ungor - a short distance from the outer reaches of the stronghold, where it was unknown what would lie in wait for them...
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