After the letter to the king was ready and the child sent on her way Kilik gave the order to begin the flooding. And so the door separating the fortress from magma was removed and slowly the hot, red liquid begun to pouring inside the fortress.
Also the section of the wall that separated the magma from the rest of the front yard was teared down and the pumps were started one last time.
Slowly the magma filled the fortress, first the lower sections but eventually the upper sections as well. To this day there is no known survivors from the death-trap that was once called Evercage, except the one lucky child who was sent to the mountain home with the letter to king.
Now then, what happened to the child? The king felt pity towards the poor child, just above four years old, and took her as his own child. One day, after several dozens of years, this child became the Queen of The Faithful Furnaces. She was respected among her subjects, but every night through rest of her life she was haunted by the dreams and visions of Evercage and the chaos there was during the last months before she fled the fortress. She was also heard to be babbling something about the ghost of his father who happened to be nobody else but the count Stronghammer, the great ruler of the Evercage.
One day, 1st of Hematite, year 157, the Queen Urist Stronghammer killed herself. The last words she gave were the words of hope of meeting her father once again. That day was also the day when it had been exactly fifty years since the fall of Evercage by the order of mayor Kilik Tradedbanners and by the hands of Lecktor Seabanner, who was the one removing the door.
Even to this day the memory of Evercage lives on, with the help of statue garden established by the Queen herself. The statue garden contained a statue of each and every dwarf who lived in Evercage and died in there. And even to this day the rumors of treasures possibly still remaining somewhere in the depths of Evercage as well as the rumors of few lonely dwarves living inside the flooded fortress in some remote corner which survived from the burial, trapped and disconnected from the rest of the world, lives on. Several attempts to reach the inner sanctums of the fortress which were believed to still exists were done, but there just was no way to get past the great sea of magma which was formed inside the halls of Evercage.
And so ends the sad tale of Evercage, the dwarven prison fortress. May the dead rest in peace!
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