In a shallow bowl of a valley lies the Mines of Pain. This cavern opens to a large natural void under ground that plunges in to bottomless depths. Here the goblin king Barrabas and his Gore Shroud tribe force numerous slaves to mine the different viens of metal with in.
Barrabas is a particularly cruel goblin, taking delight in torturing both his slaves and underlings. However malicious he may be, the rest of the Gore Shroud tribe fear him and the Dwarven sword he wields.
Before claiming leadership of the Gore Shroud tribe, Barrabas was nothing more than a common, backstabbing goblin. As all goblins, Barrabas sought to rule the tribe and when he saw the chance to assassinate the king, Nog Dreadfang, he took it. However, Nog was not so easily double crossed and Barrabas found himself on the wrong end of a blade. Nog had Barrabas tortured for a fort night as a source of entertainment. When this grew boring, the broken and mangled goblin was thrown in to a deep natural fissure and forgotten.
It was down there at the bottom of this dark crack in the earth that Barrabas was reborn. He returned to the Gore Shroud tribe two years later. Wielding a magical Dwarven blade, he slew Nog and his lieutenants. As one of his first acts as king, he lead the tribe to the place now known as the Mines of Pain. Barrabas claims that he was told by "The Unclean Maw with a Thousand Eyes" to bring his people here and strip the minerals from the rock.
The Goblins began gathering slaves to work the mines and the ore was transported to the great forges of Azgarrott where the Barrabas had set up a deal with the titan. In the first exchange Barrabas was given two mechanical dogs, forged by Azgarrott himself, to act as personal bodyguards to the Goblin King.

However, things were not meant to last for Barrabas and the Gore Shroud tribe. Shortly after picking up a new batch of slaves from a caravan, the goblins found themselves under attack from the brave adventurers of Greenvale. After several skirmishes and battles, the heroes attacked the Mines of Pain and finished off the Gore Shroud tribe. In the battle, Barrabas was slain and his body fell in to a deep dark pool. His guard dogs disabled and his followers either killed or scattered, the mines were now free of the goblin tyranny. In the following months the heroes set up a small camp outside the mines which quickly became a trading outpost and mining camp. Now called Deepwell, the mines are being explored once again by Dwarves and intrepid spellunkers who seek to make their fortune in this world through digging in the dark expanses that once were called the Mines of Pain.