The Dwarven Forges of Molina de Aragón
📍 Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara
The Hammer That Never Cooled In the year 874, when most of Christian Spain was still locked in the long struggle of Reconquista and the caliphate of Córdoba dominated the peninsula, a lone traveler came to the limestone canyons of Molina de Aragón. He was old beyond measure—some said he had walked the earth since before Rome, others whispered he was Tubal-Cain himself, the first smith mentioned in the Book of Genesis, cursed to wander for teaching humanity the secrets of metalwork. His name, he said, was Durin, though whether that was truth or simply a name adopted to fit human expectations, none could say. What was undeniable was his craft. The blades he forged never dulled, never broke, never rusted. Armor beaten from his anvil turned aside the fiercest blows. Bells cast in his furnace…