Dwarves in Bryn Mawr

more notes written down as I think of ideas at random times

• Dwarves are now a xenophobic, bitter race, still shamed by the loss of capital in the Sundering War that destroyed the Great Empire.
• The actions of the archmage Borron during the war, which obliterated the royal lineage, the Great Library, and the holiest sites of Dwarvenkind, have made all dwarves deeply mistrustful of all humans
• The only dwarves who leave the Underkingdom are the traders and those who are desperate or misfits.
• Two main things drive these dwarves, the desire to obtain that which can not be grown or mined beneath the surface, or the desperate urge to earn glory and acceptance by recovering a fragment of what was in the Great Library.
• Finding a runestone or memory crystal will guarantee status for the desperate and acceptance for even the most undwarfish dwarf.