Death Pass is near Black Crag and is controlled on both sides by the Broken Tooth Orc tribe.[1a]
Death Pass is a pass through the Worlds Edge Mountains from the Old World to the Dark Lands of the Far East.[1a]
It is occupied on both sides by the Broken Tooth Orc tribe. It passes near Black Crag, a lost Dwarf hold formerly known as Karak Drazh.[1a]
In ages past, when the Dwarfs of the Old World still dealt and traded with the Elves of Ulthuan, a Dwarf-built road carried great wealth and finery from Tilea in the west, through the Border Princes and the Badlands, to the mighty Dwarf holds of the southern Worlds Edge Mountains.[2a]
Here, it passed beneath the towering might of Karak Drazh, past the Eight Peaks and rose into the unwelcoming heights of the Death Pass, the only clear route through the snow-capped mountains to the bleak and desolate expanses of the Dark Lands beyond.[2a]
Today, bold Human merchants occasionally brave the dangers of Death Pass in search of a route to distant Grand Cathay. Entire armies have been dispatched from the nations of the Old World, intent on forging safe passage through the Orc-infested Worlds Edge Mountains and across the blasted wasteland that lies beyond.[2a]