Fortress is the best protected mine in the entire world. Six hundred soldiers guard it (the Fourth Brigade of Rock Cove), and each of its miners receives intensive combat training. This excess is due to the fact that it is the only full-scale mining operation of one of the component metals of dwarven steel. All other sources have proven to be short lived. The location of the mine, and any information about the metal mined there is considered a state secret. Betraying state secrets is a traitorous act punishable by hanging. Smelting of the ore is done within the mine, and only the actual metal is transported back to Rock Cove. (Although many of the mine’s workers do not know it, the mine is located south of Rock Cove along the ocean cliffs.)
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