The third-largest city in the Reign, Dunmore is a recent arrival to the list of powerful cities, and it's might derives almost entirely from proximity to the North Seas, where the lucrative whaling trade hunts down the massive Iceberg Whales for their oil.
Seated atop a high cliff about fifteen miles south of the mouth of the River Titus, Dunmore was originally a druidic holy site. Conquered during the last years of the Wildborn Wars, it was then converted to a military fort for the duration of the Wars, and then ultimately to the sprawling industrial hub that it remains today.
Prior to its discovery by First-Empire traders, a druidic religious center, known in the Wild-Tongue as Doenmarach (literally, "Cliff-of-the-Gods"), existed on the site of modern-day Dunmore.
During the First Empire, it is believed that little changed in the use of the Doenmarach site.
During the early years of the Reign, Doenmarach became a hub for uprooted Druids being slowly pushed north as the armies of the Church, led by the Hierophants, slowly marched further and further up the Continent.
After the Battle at Doenmarach, the Wildborn forces were broken and they scattered throughout the Northern Holds. Once the refinement process for whale oil was understood, Fort Doenmarach became Dunmore, Pearl of the North.