Drozmere

Drozmere is a prominent Duergar city found below Titanbath. The city is built around a lake stemming from an underground spring, also called Drozmere. Drozmere enjoys cordial relations with Titanbath, and a culture of tolerance between Dwarves and Duergar has developed in the years of their alliance.

Origins
'Drozmere' means 'dross lake' (referring to scum on molten metal), or, more directly, 'scum lake'. The city was origianlly a penal colony for exiles from Duergar society, found far deeper in the earth, and the lake it was based around was corrupted with salt water and garbage from above. Hence the name 'Drozmere' referred to both the lake and the people who lived there.

It was Titanbath's garbage thrown down which blighted the lake. So when civic surveyors from Titanbath inevitably came down, they found the city. Seeing it as an emblem of Duergar injustice, they armed the prisoners held there and fought alongisde them, freeing Drozmere from its Underdeep influence. Over the following years, the lake was cleaned, Titanbath found somewhere else to throw its waste, and the two cities have lived closely with one another.

Drozmere and Titanbath
Duergar are a frequent sight in Titanbath, and House Steedmaster - a Duergar house responsible for Steeder mounts - is one of the most powerful Houses in the city.

There are still some who feel like Duergar are unwelcome, however. Drozmere is sometimes called 'the Dregs' by those who would disparage them.