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- Hildiah Eddapon, a wily man and a racist, believes dwarfs all come from a group of human criminals condemned to work in a gold mine who ended up trapped underground due to an earthquake. After thousands of years of inbreeding and cannibalism, the modern dwarf began to emerge
- Scarlaley Karmmir wanted to be a master jeweler but ended up a fisherman
- Aelfmaer wanted to be an empress but ended up a girl
- Ainsladia Malbìn, an angry duke, recently inherited a dockside warehouse in Highshaws from their distant relative, a notorious treasure hunter
- There are strange things happening every day. For instance, a fisherman’s child was caught in an enormous spider web; luckily the spider was no where to be found