It is a vast and inhospitable plateau where the air is frigid and thin, and the dusty ground littered with the wind-scoured bones of the ancient dead. The mineral wealth is rich here, but the earth and stone to some seem tainted and unclean. In the Age of the Ancestors, when the Dwarfs first colonised the World's Edge Mountains, many of them called the place accursed and turned aside from it, either retreating to the most established holds in the south or, if of more adventurous character, choosing to strike out into far Norsca or undertake the journey first east and then south to the rich lodes recently discovered in the Mountains of Mourn. Some however, refusing to be baulked, chose to remain in the Great Skull Land come what may, and founded Uzkulak. There the Eastern Dwarfs turned into