The Eccentric Dwarves

The Tieflings' request was simple, and Solam readily agreed. It had been within his rights as lord anyway. Besides, the council probably had no interest in how Solam recruited his subjects. Even if he registered a million people, it would have nothing to do with the council—at least not for the next two hundred years.

After all, those people on the council had directly exempted Solam's territory from taxes for two hundred years. And that exemption covered everything. It could even be said that, aside from appearing on Amn's map, Solam's territory basically had nothing to do with the Council of Amn.

After seeing the document Solam wrote out on the spot, the Tieflings finally relaxed and cheered. While they celebrated, Solam settled the dwarves' issue as well.

The dwarves' problem was even simpler than the Tieflings'. These poor fellows had been enslaved by Klauth for a full three hundred years. They had already been his slaves before Klauth ever came to Dark Fort.

Dragons and dwarves could absolutely be considered mortal enemies, in a sense. Dwarves were a race that loved accumulating wealth—very, very much. They did not hoard wealth for enjoyment. In fact, aside from alcohol, most dwarves did not have particularly high demands when it came to food or clothing. They simply loved gold, silver, and treasure. They liked piling it up in vaults, and a dwarven city would often spend centuries doing nothing but adding more treasure to its storehouses, never once thinking of using it.

And it was precisely this peculiar hoarding habit that made dwarves the dragons' favorite targets for plunder. The wealth contained within a single dwarven city could rival that of an entire human kingdom.

For dragons, the best way to get rich overnight was to rob dwarves...

So dwarves had always