Suðri

Suðri (South City) is the southernmost city of Dwarven society on Hyperborea and one of five major Dwarven cities. It is the southernmost Dwarven city located within the Everlight. The other three cardinal cities, Austri (East City), Vestri (West City), and Norðri (North City), are an equidistance away from the central Dwarven capital, Hjálm (Helm), in their respective directions. (All five cities are named after an Old Norse kenning for the sky.)

Formerly the mining epicenter of Dwarven society, Suðri is now but a memorial to its halcycon days. It is the oldest of the five cities, and at its highest point, surpassed even Helm in terms of advancements. During this time, the South City was better known as Ratatoskr's Rest—named for the first Dwarven drill ever invented and still enshrined at the city's center. Nowadays, however, the city is better known by names like Fólkvangr and Valhalla for the innumerable Dwarven lives lost while trying to defend it from the Fey. 

The South City was leveled by the Fey not long after they realized the literal and figurative goldmine it guarded. All resources, including the land's Anima, were completely stripped from the area, leaving it a bleached and barren wasteland nearly bereft of life. This attack propelled Dwarven technology forward, leaving them able to defend against later assaults on the North City and other areas. Thankfully, Hyperborea's overflowing Anima means that vitality is slowly returning to region, with some Dwarves making the journey to Suðri try and stubbornly eke out an existence in honor of their ancestors.

Current Magitechnology has revealed an untouched network of chasms far beneath the city. As promising as they might seem, explorations into these caves have thus far yielded little beyond perilous conditions, earning them the name Hel.