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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Mott Caridin and the Dwarven Holds}}
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{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; width:23em; margin:0 0 1em 1.5em; font-size:90%;"
|+ The Dwarven Holds
|-
! style="text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;" | Type
| Independent dwarven city-kingdoms
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! style="text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;" | Foremost seat
| Mott Caridin
|-
! style="text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;" | Ruler
| The preeminent dwarven king (precedence over the lesser kings)
|-
! style="text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;" | Faith
| [[Pelervar/Durroch|Durroch]]
|-
! style="text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;" | Relation to Free Cities
| Independent ally
|-
! style="text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;" | Location
| Mountains above the [[Pelervar/Western Marches|Western Marches]]
|}
In the mountains above the [[Pelervar/Western Marches|Western Marches]] lies a separate people and a separate power: the '''dwarven city-kingdoms''', independent of the [[Pelervar/Council of the Free Cities|Free Cities]] and loosely allied with them.

== Mott Caridin ==
'''Mott Caridin''' is their foremost seat — a great mountain-hold of royal halls, deep roads, and craft districts, and the seat of the '''preeminent dwarven king'''. Each dwarven city keeps its own '''lesser king''' and rules its own affairs; Mott Caridin does not command them, but holds precedence in tradition, in disputes between cities, in high diplomacy, and in the shared concerns of all the holds.

== Law, Oath, and Debt ==
Dwarven life runs on law, oath, and debt. Their society is built of craft houses and debt-keepers, stonewrights and lesser courts, all answerable to dwarven law and the royal judgement of the king, and all shaped by [[Pelervar/Durroch|Durroch]] — the weight beneath the mountain, the god of stone, debt, and the honest account. To a dwarf, a debt is sacred and a thing made carelessly is a kind of sin; this is why their bonds, their craft, and their word are trusted across the region.

== Alliance with the Free Cities ==
The two are not one realm — the dwarves answer to no council and fly no charter — but the ties are old and warm. Dwarves live and work openly in the cities, most of all in [[Pelervar/Ashford|Ashford]]; dwarven craft underlies the very stonework the human guilds practise (see the [[Pelervar/The Stonemasons Guild|Stonemasons Guild]]); and there is a deep kinship between dwarven debt-keepers and the human keepers of oaths and ledgers (see the [[Pelervar/The Quiet Ledger|Quiet Ledger]]).

== The Old Grief ==
The dwarves carry an old grief they rarely name to outsiders: that the greater part of their people long ago moved upward, out of the deep places where Durroch's presence is strongest. Dwarven faith regards this as a slow turning-away that no one ever chose, and the deepest holds are still kept by a dwindling number of those who remain below. ''What'' they keep vigil over is not a thing dwarves discuss with anyone who is not of the stone.

== See Also ==
* [[Pelervar/Khazdrakar Mines|Khazdrakar Mines]]

[[Category:Pelervar/Regions]]
[[Category:Pelervar/Free Cities Region]]

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