Torkaas

Torkaas
Torkaas is a prosperous industrial town in northern Haerglayde. Situated just off the prominant trading route between Tol'Helkar and Haerglayde City, Torkaas enjoys a healthy import/export based economy.

Industry
The heart of Torkaas are the mines of mysterious bluestone and rich iron. Combined, these two metals blend to make famed Haerglaydian Steel, also known as Blue Steel, which is widely regarded to be the best in the Empire. Well over half of the towns inhabitents work in the mines, either directly mining or smelting the raw ore into steel ingots for shipment around the continent.

Trivia
In Haerglayde, Dacura and the Vo Kang Islands, the first two years of any Smith's apprenticeship are spent in the mines and smelters of Torkaas. That is why most Elven smiths distrust the quality of the Eastern nations' goods - a Smith without Torkaasian smoke in his lungs isn't fit to forge a table-dagger, or so the saying goes.