That place was named Mark's Town in the past. Lord Mark of UDL controlled the mining cave and the miners had to pay a % of their ingots to get to mine there. He also controlled who he wanted to settle down there, I remember, I had big trouble with him, when I placed a log cabin there. It was also the place where UDL had their guild towers. They had a castle earlier but not sure what happens to it.
When TDO/TDM had guildhouses in Brit Bay Village, near east bank, where old NEW keep is placed, I had to traveling to the UDL castle and get a deal with their GM Lector. At that time, Luxor was running first NEW guild and at same time he made that guild, I made a sister guild to The Dark Outlaws, named The Dark Merchants. TDM was a newbie helping guild too. We accepted weak and poor, who had hard with surviving in this wild land. We was a kind of Robin Hood guild, demanding gold and gems from the rich to help the young, weak and poor.
I got my deal with The Undead Lords, UDL, that my TDM members was still to young and weak, their death God Myrkul needed strong souls.