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The Black Spawn Dens
For one summer, the fastest road to power, garrisoned like mines.
- Region
- Across the Direlands
- Opened
- June 2000
- Prize
- Experience, fast
- Record
- Strong dates, partisan control
The Black Spawn Dens, dated
- Dated to the month
Open
Original-era evidenceVoices: Official
- Dated to the month
Spawn cut
Original-era evidenceVoices: Reference
- Dated to the month
AB den untieable
Original-era evidenceVoices: Official
- Dated to the month
GEN left with Black Hill
Original-era evidenceVoices: Blood-side
Three caves of tuskers that came back almost as fast as they fell. Monarchies counted their strength by how much of each they held.
Three caves
Original-era evidenceOpened June 2000, level 20 and up: near Ayan Baqur, near Fort Tethana, and on the Obsidian Plains, the one players called Black Hill.
Sources · Official, Black Rose-side, ReferenceThe Paths of DestructionBlack Spawn DenDarktide’s Past
Too fast to last
Original-era evidenceNine levels in two weeks of part-time play, one memoir remembers. The spawn was cut in July.
Sources · Black Rose-side, ReferenceDarktide’s PastBlack Spawn Den
Held by percentage
Original-era evidenceBlood claims about 70 percent of the AB den, then the Black Hill den once AB’s portal could not be tied. Its claims, unchecked.
Sources · Official, Blood-sideHistoryDeveloper Chat, 16 August 2000
Superseded
Later evolutionNewer dungeons replaced them in 2001 and 2002.
Sources · ReferenceBlack Spawn Den