Editing Free Dwarf Lands (section)

==Background==
The dwarfs of Mantica are said to have been created from the tears of the goddess of the underworld. It is said that she couldn't bear the thought that she would live forever without children of her own. As her tears fell on the stones of the underworld, they animated these rocks and begat the dwarven race. The dwarves are said to reflect this creation in character; they are as strong and enduring as stone and as passionate as the goddess who created them.

Like the other races, the dwarfs lived in unity until the God War. With the outbreak of that war, dwarven kind split into three major camps. The Abyssal Dwarfs in the northern lands of Tragar aligned with the Wicked Ones. The southern dwarfs of Abercarr remained unified, but did not align openly with the Shining Ones. Between the two lay the Free Dwarf Lands, a collection of independent dwarven city-states.

While the dwarfs of Abercarr fled underground, the free dwarfs remained on the surface. Unfortunately for these dwarfs their territory was located between Tragar, the Low Sea of Suan, and the High Sea of Bari. This left them surrounded by either water or the [[Abyssal Dwarfs]]. Their former allies lay across this small sea, but were now no longer offering aid. This led to their lands being under constant siege by their vile cousins, [[Orcs (Kings of War)|orcs]], and the undead.

In recent years these lands have come under siege by the necromancer Mhorgoth the Faceless. Mhorgoth's forces have decimated many of the free states, killing noble and commoner alike. On the heels of this ongoing siege, the dwarfs of Abercarr returned to the surface, now calling themselves the Golloch Empire. Golloch the Conqueror has offered aid to his beleaguered kin, but at the price of swearing fealty to him. Though reluctant to do so, many of the free dwarf cities have been forced to do so in order to survive.