What is "northgate"

Usage examples of "northgate".

The ruins of Northgate, destroyed during the Cataclysm and now only a slim, five-foot ledge above a valley one thousand feet below, warded the way to Thorbardin from the Plains of Death.

As the dragon slid along the currents, Stanach was able to make out the still shadowed defile that led to Northgate, shattered and ruined three hundred years before in the Dwarfgate Wars.

Even now, listening to the dragon breathing, Stanach only remembered the few moments after Darknight set down in a deep ravine below the Northgate ledge.

Darknight would stand ready to back up his attack on Hornfel and then on Gneiss’s guards at both Northgate and Southgate.

Behind him, in the wide empty place where once the Northgate had warded this entrance to Thorbardin, four strong dwarf warriors stood, two facing the Hylar thane, two watching several yards farther into the gatehouse.

He and his warband can hold those who remain, but he fears that the squads making for Northgate are acting on some order.

Hornfel had heard the story in the gatehouse, Lavim’s fast-talking explanation as to how he came to be entering Northgate by a five-foot ledge a thousand feet above a burning valley.

They just banged on Northgate for a while, then gave up and went away.

They say Hammerhand will make camp below Northgate, and invites the trade wardens out to inspect his goods.

A growing crowd had gathered on the Northgate ledge, watching the strangers curiously and listening to the haunting music of the drums.

At evening, as the sun of Krynn sat upon the western ranges, they gathered with their guards and returned up the ramps to Northgate to disappear inside.

Guards saw them safely in, then wheeled to follow them, and the great plug of Northgate closed as the last rays of sunlight crept up the high peaks.

A delved chamber near Northgate that usually served as a storage barn had been hastily refurnished the night before as a situational head­quarters.

Like its twin on the south face of the mountain, many miles away, Northgate was a monument to the stubborn refusal of the mountain dwarves to be troubled by outsiders.

Broad delv-ings beyond had once been a construction camp for Northgate and were now used as warehouses.