Red Larch, Day 6 Evening
Haeleena looks somewhat disappointed that the books were unlikely to be found, "That is a shame."
As the group starts to assemble in the inn, Illvilious mingles with any dwarves he can find. The dwarf kingdom of Beslimir was established some 6000 years ago and did not stand long. It taxes even the long memory of the dwarves to remember back that far and it quickly becomes apparent that most of what you hear is myth and legend. Some noble houses suggest a lineage to the city of Tyar-Besil but rarely is this claim backed by proof.
It seems well established that the kingdom was overrun by trolls and many of the legends speak of trouble from below. The Beslimer dwarves never mined very deep, strange for dwarves, and much of the trouble of Tyar-Besil is attributed to a curse coming from deep below the earth. Some of the legends blame the drow, with conflicting accounts of the drow coveting the city or the drow being driven out and trying to reclaim it, or even that they were long dead before the dwarves came, victims of the same evil that afflicted the dwarves.