Hammer of the High King

The Hammer of the High King (also known as Modimus's Hammer) was the hammer of Modimus Anvilmar, the last high king of Ironforge. After his death, during the War of the Three Hammers for control of Ironforge, the hammer had mysteriously disappeared. A parchment scroll was recently found in The Library, which stated that the hammer had been broken into three pieces. During the chaos of the war, each clan had, in one way or another, supposedly managed to obtain one of the fragments:
 * The Wildhammer clan may have obtained the handle, taken by one of the clan and reforged into a scepter carried by Thane Kurdran, and before him, Thane Khardros.
 * The Bronzebeard clan seemed to have had obtained the hammer's head, damaged beyond recognition in a fire during the civil war and tended to in the city's library along with other debris gathered in memory of the conflict.
 * And the Dark Iron clan seemed to have had obtained the once-golden-hued crystal that had been set into the head of the hammer, found by one of the clan's sorcerers and altered in color to hide its identity.

The hammer would later be reforged as an act of unity between the three dwarven clans, under decree of the Council of Three Hammers (although Kurdran was loathe to give up the scepter in the first place for personal reasons). It was decided that a Dark Iron smith would reforge the hammer. The day before the reforging however, Advisor Belgrum discovered that the parchment was a well-made fake and had probably been planted in the Library. At best, the three pieces may have come after the civil war, and at worse the head and crystal were also fakes. Yet the majority of the council agreed to continue with the reforging without the public knowing about it being a fake. Kurdran however, disagreed with the lie. Later that night, Kurdran would come to where the pieces were stored, and removed the Wildhammer scepter that was to be used as the hammer's handle. A confrontation with Moira revealed that she was ultimately responsible for the whole plan. It is insinuated that the Dark Irons planted the scroll under her orders. On the day of the reforging, it was discovered that the scepter was missing, and Kurdran admitted he had stolen it. But instead of letting it be reforged (which would allow the lie to continue), he smashed the scepter with his stormhammer, and it shattered to pieces. Kurdran declared that the union of the dwarven clans shouldn't start with reforging a hammer that could be fractured again. Instead, Kurdran proposed that the dwarven clans move forward from the past and unite with a fresh start. Muradin Bronzebeard gladly joined him, and Moira Thaurissan (in front of the public) had no choice but help in fracturing their fragments.