Editing Setting:Unified Setting/Everoc (section)

===Diadem Vosterus===
The Hearthlands, heart of the Dwarf land. Diadem Vosterus is less a single coherent kingdom and more a collection of individual fortressholmes and their surrounding farmlands, each with its own lord. They rarely have any need to interact with one another except for trade. 

Dwarves live underground in vast mining complexes called fortresses, usually with small farming plots outside. They care surprisingly little about the surface of their territory and allow other races to settle freely. These villages and farms are technically tenants living under the reign of the nearest lord. In practice they are ignored as long as they don't interfere in dwarven business and provide food for rent. Settlements without a nearby lord are free to live as they see fit, but often trade with nearby fortresses to obtain manufactured goods.

Not all races live in harmony with the dwarven lords. Wild goblins and human bandits are known to haunt the wilderness, raiding settlements and caravans for plunder. Despite the protestations of the Nodrak merchants the dwarves have done little to reign in such activity, only launching punitive raids when their own fortresses are threatened or disturbed.