Editing Crestlyn Isle Organizations And Knightly Orders (section)

===Continental Dwarven Confederacy===
Various dwarven mountainhomes across the Isle answer to the Continental Dwarven Confederacy. Each city is ruled by a different dwarven clan and there are few clans that are not a part of the confederacy. [[Crestlyn Isle Cities#Steinhelm|Steinhelm]] is the capital city and and it is ruled by the Ironbeards.

====Ironbeards====
While for as long as there has been a Steinhelm it has been ruled by the Ironbeards, they only gained control of it during the final stages of the old city's construction. The deepest halls that are now the Ironbeards' mountainhome and Steinhelm's inner sanctum were actually dug by the now-lesser clan known as the Goldbloods. In fact, the mysterious steel smelting technologies known only to the Ironbeard smiths of Steinhelm are said to have been stolen from the Goldbloods. The original purpose of Steinhelm was for it to be an outpost for the Goldbloods, that would use its rich veins of magnetite to produce a huge arsenal of steel weapons and armor. This would be used by them to gain supremacy over all the young dwarven realms, propelling the small empire of dwarves from its small hold of just three mountains to governing all of Crestlyn's subterranean kingdoms. Unfortunately for the Goldbloods, the Ironbeards, who were at the time a simplistic clan of nomadic hill dwarves, discovered Steinhelm before a single weapon was produced by it. The Ironbeards easily overthrew the Goldblood soldiers, using guerrilla tactics and barbaric rage to their advantage. The Goldblood smiths were enslaved and forced to use their secret techniques to forge steel goods of unmatched quality for the Ironbeards, who settled in Steinhelm permanently. Eventually, the Goldblood smiths all died out, and their methods were adopted by Ironbeard smiths, who are the sole workers of steel in Steinhelm today. The Ironbeards did not share the Goldbloods' dream of supremacy through war, but instead the Ironbeard clan leader Urist Trollflayer II established Steinhelm as the dominant dwarven trade city in all of Crestlyn (and some say the world). His complete control over the flow of steel across the Isle earned the Ironbeards their position as the most powerful and respected dwarven clan, which they maintain to this day. It also made Trollflayer II, as the leader of the leading clan, the first unofficial king of all dwarves, with Steinhelm as his capital.

*'''Magical Artifacts of Steinhelm'''

Over their millennia of economic dominance, the Ironbeards have built up, through greedy mining and copious exports of masterwork goods, an uncountable number of vaults, each filled with to the brim with precious metals, magical items, and expensive art. Each vault is defended by its own squad of guards, clad in masterwork Steinhelm steel. These guards are rarely Ironbeards, who are of too high status to grime their beards in combat, but instead are usually mercenaries from other clans (most often from the Gearhearts) hired by the Ironbeards to protect their treasure. The guards aren't given access to the vaults they protect, and rarely even know what they're guarding. Among these vaults, there is said to be one in particular that holds Steinhelms greatest treasures, that only the reigning Ironbeard clan leader has access to: the diamond strongbox. Although most of what is known about the vault is speculation and legend, it is said to be a one hundred cubic meter hollow cube made entirely of diamond, carved from one solid diamond. How it is entered or where it is entered from baffle even the most imaginative bards and gossipers. Inside are said to be five priceless and superpowerful magic items