The illithids had no trouble overwhelming the remaining dwarves with their psionic power and soon put them to work. The monsters had sent out a psychic lure that played on the dwarvesвЂ™ greed, and the never-ending work schedule that was the product of their obsession weeded out all but the best specimens for their slave pens. A great elder brain and its mind flayers waited there, ready to take the next step in the subjugation of clan Duergar. When their delving finally broke through into a cavern, the dwarves found the cause of their obsession.

Only the hardiest and most iron-willed individuals of the clan survived this brutal campaign. The weakest among them fell dead from exhaustion, the rest pausing only long enough to push the corpses aside so they could continue the digging. The dwarves relentlessly dug, hacked, and tunneled. Every dwarf old enough to hold a pick or shovel worked the mines. Soon, all other activity in the community ceased the forges grew cold, and the temples to Moradin stood empty. This obsession took root and spread throughout the clan. The next strike of a pick, they said, could reveal wealth beyond imagining. The clanвЂ™s miners continually insisted that a great trove of gold and iron lay just beyond where the clan had explored.

The dwarves of clan Duergar, however, became obsessed with delving deep into the Underdark. Almost all the dwarves were more than content to make their homes inside the mountains and hills that were filled with ore and other valuables, not digging too far beneath the surface. The conflict began in ages past, when the world was new. Duergar assassin Vozala Spikefist, before slaying the dwarf king Umbrag Hammerthorn Take this message to your doddering fool of a god.

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