[Khazâd-dûm] Nogrod Raiders image - DCI: Last Alliance mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

The Khazâd delved for themselves great halls and mansions, after the manner of their kind, in the eastern side of Ered Luin before the First Age begun: one of them was Tumunzahar, by the Elves named Nogrod, the Hollowbold. Early the Sindar had their deep armouries filled with great wealth of war gear: chainmail, swords and axes, shields and helms, often bought from Nogrod, sometimes wrought by the legendary smith Telchar himself, or by his master Gamil Zirak the old.
When the Sindar High King, Thingol of Doriath, got a Silmaril in his possession it was to the smiths from Nogrod he turned to make a necklace for it. Thingol died when they quarreled over the jewel and so did most smiths in return, but in Nogrod it was spoken how treacherous Elves had cheated and murdered their kin.
That started a wrathful and bitter war of revenge, where the Nogrod Dwarves sacked Doriath, but they were all killed in the end by Nandor Elves and Ents, during the march home. Many Elves and Dwarves were slain in this war and it has not been forgotten, especially the lords of Eryn Galen hold this against the Dwarven race even after an Age has passed.
Many Dwarves left their ruined cities in Ered Luin to go to Khazâd-dûm and swell its numbers after the First Age, and the warriors of the Nogrod people now aid the armies of Durin's folk. They remain a fierce kindred, who delight in assaults rather than defence even if they are well protected. For this purpose they wield dual swords, and there are always old wrongs to avenge.

Unit by Curufin.
Credit: KK, Taro_M