Dwarven Liberation Front

The Dwarves have been a client race to the Angharad Empire ever since 1A125 during the famous Subjugation of the Dwarves. Many Dwarves loyally serve the Empire as skilled craftsmen and powerful warriors, but even in modern times there exists a large group of these folk who refuse to forget what was stolen from their forefathers. This is the Dwarven Liberation Front (DLF), an organization comprised almost wholly of Dwarves that operates in small, mobile cells. The center of their power is a series of underground fortesses hidden among the inhospitable peaks of the Astral Mountains in the Imperial Province of Elinhir, but their threat extends across the Empire and even into the capital itself.

Subjugation of the Dwarves
The Dominion Wars were already raging during the mid-First Age of Kyros. For a long time the Empire had coexisted with the Dwarven population of Elinhir, but no longer. The region stood between Heidrhûn and Feratûm where the Imperial armies desperately required reinforcements. Out of necessity the Angharad Empire annexed Elinhir and began the work of granting it provincial status. The Shifter tribes of Elinhir welcomed this increase of status, but the Dwarves who already had established themselves as masters of Elinhir were more weary of Imperial domination. Tensions were at their highest in 1A125 when the Dwarf Lords refused to hand over the ancient city-fortress of Vermynal to Imperial control. Dwarves from the entire region rallied to defend their city and the holy Mount. Arkngthand, but by 1A127 they had no choice but to surrender. Since then, citizens of the Empire are generally mistrustful of Dwarves. However, not all of the rebellious Dwarf Lords were captured during the Subjugation and the remaining few went into hiding and created the Dwarven Liberation Front.

The Modern DLR
The group of Dwarven freedom fighters established by the last Dwarf Lords two ages ago still exists today. Information on the headquarters of the DLF is tightly guarded, but it is known to be somewhere high and well-secluded in the Astral Mountains. Over the centuries there have been several large-scale Dwarven Rebellions (There is no doubt the DLF was involved in these uprisings), but the liberation front usually limits itself to single target eliminations and small-scale strikes against Imperial targets. It is not uncommon to find a Dwarf who truly supports the Empire mysteriously killed. The DLF leadership is quick to punish "työtoveri" (collaborators) as harshly as a Human or Dragonborn who falls on the wrong side of this shadowy conflict. The DLF is constantly on the run from the Duvakaar, secret police of the Empire who relentlessly hunt and ruthlessly eliminate their enemies.