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Disaffected Artisans

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Disaffected Artisans

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Description

A group of individuals one is likely to come across in The Dwarrow, either singly or as a group, is the disaffected artisans seeking to increase their role in the political life of the city. They can frequently be encountered together at The Delver’s Trove tavern, or in one another’s shops. They are also The Dwarrow residents most likely to be encountered abroad in Haven, pleading their case with other interest groups unhappy with the current pattern of Guild rule.

Depending on the player’s affiliations, encounters with the artisans will take one of three forms (regardless of the particular artisan encountered):

  • If the player character is a dwarf from a Guild or Merchant background, he will be asked to join the group at their next get-together to discuss their common problem.
  • If the player character is known to be affiliated with the Guild leadership, the artisans will levy some sort of verbal attack at him - ranging from cajoling him to switch sides to threatening his continued safety if he does not.
  • If the player character falls in neither of the above classes, the artisans will try to rally him to their cause, and to convince him to contribute any monetary or political clout he possesses to this struggle.

What will differ in these encounters, depending on the particular artisans being spoken to, is the actual course of action being proposed, and the degree of risk to which the player-character is expected to subject himself.

If the player encounters Duumin (Apex Metalworks), Borin the clockmaker, or Malakki the jewel smith, the artisan’s ire will be directed exclusively at the Cellini family, and the support requested will consist of some sort of direct action against the Cellini’s (anything from a boycott of his products, or to defeat of one of Salvatore’s pet political initiatives, down to downright vandalism or sabotage; the more these dwarves feel they can trust you, the nastier the suggestions get).

If the artisans encountered include Konig the Master Armorer, Zaubel the jeweler, or Vassig the metalworker, their objectives will be to raise support for the return of the aristocracy to power in the city. The player character may be asked for either overt (participation in a rally, signing a petition) or covert (financial contribution, and invitation to a secret planning meeting) support of this cause. If the player-character is himself of noble blood, any NPC encounter initiated by the artisans would almost certainly be made by members of this royalist group.

It is possible that, if a player allows himself to get involved in the more violent schemes of the unhappy artisans, he may be contacted shortly thereafter by Tacobur the artisan or Bethli the smelter owner. Both of these wealthy dwarven merchants take a neutral stance in the Guild-Noble conflict, and seek to keep matters peaceful. Both dwarves have well-placed connections around town which make it worth a player’s while to disengage himself from such illicit activities, if either feel the contemplated action is important enough to pose a real danger to the city’s political stability.

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