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Inner Sea Guide came out. New questions! ;)
1. Are the only sizable dwarf settlements in Nirmathas located at the edge of the region, along the Mindspin Mountains? I had assumed Skelt was primarily populated by dwarves until someone mentioned this wasn't exactly the case.
2. Do dwarves have any pull in Nirmathi matters(such as the selection of the Forest Marshal) beyond being important sources of trade?
3. Has there been anything else on the dwarves of Kraggodan in other sources not already in the Inner Sea Guide? Specifically anything that might cast a light on their attitudes towards two lands(Nirmathas and Molthrune) that each welcomes a traditional racial foe of dwarvenkind(assuming good/neutral orcs in Nirmathas, respected hobgoblin soldiers in Molthrune) and their status as a neutral party in their war with each other.
4. Is there any more info about the dwarf Kaltia(mentioned in Hallein Town's description in Lastwall's entry) and her attempted peace talks with the orcs of Belkzen? Specifically when this attempt may have taken place and whether it was rooted in good intentions or treachery?
5. Have the mountains and plains in the northwestern corner of Nirmathas been tagged as being populated by any particular people in other sources?
6. Is the blight in the Fangwood still the Darkblight, or has it been shifted to something more vague and ambiguous?
Thanks!
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1. Are the only sizable dwarf settlements in Nirmathas located at the edge of the region, along the Mindspin Mountains? I had assumed Skelt was primarily populated by dwarves until someone mentioned this wasn't exactly the case.
2. Do dwarves have any pull in Nirmathi matters(such as the selection of the Forest Marshal) beyond being important sources of trade?
3. Has there been anything else on the dwarves of Kraggodan in other sources not already in the Inner Sea Guide? Specifically anything that might cast a light on their attitudes towards two lands(Nirmathas and Molthrune) that each welcomes a traditional racial foe of dwarvenkind(assuming good/neutral orcs in Nirmathas, respected hobgoblin soldiers in Molthrune) and their status as a neutral party in their war with each other.
4. Is there any more info about the dwarf Kaltia(mentioned in Hallein Town's description in Lastwall's entry) and her attempted peace talks with the orcs of Belkzen? Specifically when this attempt may have taken place and whether it was rooted in good intentions or treachery?
5. Have the mountains and plains in the northwestern corner of Nirmathas been tagged as being populated by any particular people in other sources?
6. Is the blight in the Fangwood still the Darkblight, or has it been shifted to something more vague and ambiguous?
1) The only sizable dwarven settlements in Nirmathas are located along the mountains, yeah. Nirmathas, like most other regions in the Inner Sea, is primarily humans. Dwarves certainly live among the humans, but if you want to find communities made primarily of dwarves, you have to head into the mountains.
2) Dwarves are trading partners, but as a whole don't have any real weight in Nirmathi politics at all.
3) Beyond "Dwarves of Golarion," no, not really.
4) Not much, no.
5) The mountains and plains in northwest Nirmathas are very lightly populated. Humans remain the primary inhabitants of the plains, but once you get into the mountains that mix switches to dwarves, giants, fey, and monsters.
6) The blight in the Fangwood has ties to the demon lord of fungi, Cyth-V'sug. It's called the Darkblight by some, sure, but not by all. I backed off of the more specific descriptions of what's going on in there because we didn't have room in the book to really talk about what exactly a "blightspawned" creature was, rules-wise. If we ever do a Nirmathas book or adventure set in the Fangwood, there'll be more info there.
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Thanks! Clears some things up. :) There's a lot less to shift around to homebrew than I thought after the update.
The parallel between the corruptive forces in the Fangwood(Cyth-V'sug) and Kyonin(Treerazer) are going to be fun to play with.
Can't remember much from Dwarves of Golarion on the race issue beyond "they generally hate orcs and goblinoids". I'll have to give it a reread...
Inner Sea Guide came out. New questions! ;)
1. Are the only sizable dwarf settlements in Nirmathas located at the edge of the region, along the Mindspin Mountains? I had assumed Skelt was primarily populated by dwarves until someone mentioned this wasn't exactly the case.
2. Do dwarves have any pull in Nirmathi matters(such as the selection of the Forest Marshal) beyond being important sources of trade?
3. Has there been anything else on the dwarves of Kraggodan in other sources not already in the Inner Sea Guide? Specifically anything that might cast a light on their attitudes towards two lands(Nirmathas and Molthrune) that each welcomes a traditional racial foe of dwarvenkind(assuming good/neutral orcs in Nirmathas, respected hobgoblin soldiers in Molthrune) and their status as a neutral party in their war with each other.
4. Is there any more info about the dwarf Kaltia(mentioned in Hallein Town's description in Lastwall's entry) and her attempted peace talks with the orcs of Belkzen? Specifically when this attempt may have taken place and whether it was rooted in good intentions or treachery?
5. Have the mountains and plains in the northwestern corner of Nirmathas been tagged as being populated by any particular people in other sources?
6. Is the blight in the Fangwood still the Darkblight, or has it been shifted to something more vague and ambiguous?
Thanks!
Glimmerhold and Kraggodan definitely dwarven settlements. When it comes to Skelt, there are both human and dwarven population, and Skelt is ruled by a "Council of several Guilds". I am sorry that still there isn't any Pathfinder Chronicles book about Nirmathas, since Nirmathas is definitely my favourite kingdom. Only important I can say when I was GMing to my friends is that when they got to the point where Forest Marshall Weslen Gavirk wanted to take his nation to war with Molthune, he asked the PCs to ask for aid from the dwarves of Glimmerhold and Kraggodan, and of course, the PCs have done a favor for the dwarven King and the dwarves had joined the forces of Nirmathas. When it comes to politics between dwarves and humans, in my campaigns dwarves where independent, but when asked to help (since Molthune was also the enemy of dwarves), they go to war :)