Length57m
About this audiobook
Sixty years on Iron Pass taught Karda Flintvein one thing: boring keeps people alive.
Then the mountain awakes.
Hundreds of miners come fleeing down from Emberhollow with something following them—burrowing creatures in numbers the pass was never built to face, and behind them a monster larger than the gatehouse itself.
Karda has thirty soldiers.
Relief is sixteen hours away.
And the walls are already starting to crack.
Karda isn't a legendary warrior. She's a veteran Stonewarden who knows every weak joint, bad patch of mortar, and killing ground in Iron Pass because she's spent a lifetime watching nothing happen.
Now every boring year of gate duty matters.
As the brood tears the fortress apart and the System pushes Karda's hard-earned abilities somewhere they've never gone before, holding the line will demand more than strength. It will demand sacrifice, stubbornness, and one final decision every dwarven fortress is built for—but no defender ever wants to make.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Action and Adventure
Length57 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Author’s Note
65. Holdfast
21. The Boring Watch
76. Sealing the Mountain
32. What's Following Them
87. After the Dust
43. Thirty Soldiers
9Thank You
54. The Dhurrek
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