Dwarves in Ethengar?

Now to explain to you the reason why you found dwarves in the Ethengars and why they were considered to be citizens of the Ethengars.

Now, me, the DM, knows more about the history than what I am about to tell you. It can be considered that this information is stuff that your characters have dug up. I will tell you first story from a Rockhome Dwarf, next from a Glantrian mage, then from an Ethengar, and finally from a Darokin.

(From Glolum, son of Bofin, of Hurwarf Clan)
Yes, we are "allies" with the Ethengar Khanates. I would more rather use the term "contracter" rather than "ally." I think we are the closest thing to an "ally" that those barbarians have. I met a few. Though they have a genuine interest in worldly affairs, they seem to think that all non-Ethengarians are lesser than them. Well, it does not do well for buisness to talk poorly of the Ehtengars. After all, they are paying us well for those roads that we are building over there. Futhermore, they give all dwarves full protection while traveling through their lands. Which makes it easier to make raids against certain bastard wizards. We are cautious about building roads that could later be used as invasion routes. Roads that can lead to our homelands. It is not likey that they would invade us, we know. Our lands have nothing to offer those horse-lovers. We got mines, but those Ethengars have shown that they care little for material goods. It is because of this and because of our mutal hate towards the Glantrians why we can be on such good terms. Our hatred of the Glantrians is as long as Glantrian as it is known today. Before Glantri became an offical nation, there was a rumor that hit our land in AC 802 about rich gold veins being found in the Glantrian mountains. It would seem likely for such riches to be found in those mountains based on the size of those mountains. Some of the tallest mountains in Eastern Brun can be found in Glantri. Many young dwarves gathered their things and migrated towards Glantri to make a name for themselves. The road was not an easy one. There are three major ways into Glantri. One lays in the west, and no mortal can live long in those areas. Not to mention it would take years getting to the west side of the mountains. The other way was through the Ethengars. Back then, the Ethengars were not united and travel through that land was vastly more dangerous than it is now. The third route was through the Broken Lands, which can be more dangerous than the other two routes combined. Regardless of the dangers, those brave young dwarves managed to make it to Glantri. They hooked up with dwarven ancestors that were already there and started digging. The Glantrians were at war with each other, and did not take much notice of the new dwarven neighbors until they got themselves hit with a plague. Those wizards believed that the plague came because of us dwarves. For some reason, they felt that purging the land of dwarves would get rid of the plague. It was complete nonsense. Those dwarves had to fight for themselves against the wave of genocide that the Glantrians suddenly presented to them. To make matters worse, Glantrians became interested in our bodies and started to perform tests on us. These tests would go from simple spell casting to outright tearing our bodies apart and labeling the organs. Wizards are suppose to be men of logic, but I fail to see the logic in these Glantrians. We call those years the Years of InfamyThe Ethengars did not recieve a friendly reception from the Glantrians either, apparently. The Ethengars make constant raids against the Glantrians. Sometimes we send a couple dwarves to help them and get a share of the loot. I believe that the Ethengars wish to wage war against the Glantrians, but they are just biding their time for now. If they ever declare war against Glantri, I am sure all dwarves would unite to side with the Ethengars against Glantri. We hadn't a major conflict since the Years of Infamy. It is about time for vengance.

(From Streva Mordian, archivist in the City Library in Glantri City)
The Principalities of Glantri does not do buisness with those human trash in the east in the Dwarves in Rockhome. For the human trash, who have the nerve to call themselves a nation, they attack our nation out their hatred for any kind of law and order. No leader among them last long because they do not want any leaders. Or because any leader would see quickly that they are leading. Thus they would follow the proper action of ending their own lives in site of such disgracement. We have no proof of any kind of assassinations that had been said to of happen in the rotting past of the trash in the east. The trash encroches on our land from time to time and it gets burned with the rest of our trash. It is proper that they would go on believing "Gods" and "Goddesses" or that nonsense as they are not educated enough to realize that magic is the only rule of the Universe. When garbarge speaks, just burn them as their words they shit out would do nothing but rot your brains. For those dwarves, we do not wish to speak to them again after they brought their plague to our lands during the Forty Years War. We were at on of our most crucial moments in our history, and these dwarves crawl onto our lands begging for our aid and setting up their camps upon our lands behind our backs. They attempted to swipe our lands away from us during that period of chaos. Despite the troubles at hand, we decided it would be no challenge to destroy these creatures. They later proved to be ancestors of cockroaches in that they were resistant to our magic naturally. Such properties in living sentient beings have not been encountered before. Well, it has, but not by sentient beings that could be called a nation. While pesticiding these cockroaches, we decided it would be a good chance to study them for future protection incase they decide to attack us again in the future. The more I think about it, the more relations I can find with cockroaches and dwarves. I can see why the elves have no love for dwarves. Of course, being cockroaches, they found a new home with garbage. I wish the ban of garbage in the east would extend towards the cockroaches in the dirt.

(From Nayan, a Keshak for the Great Khan)
We let the dwarves live in our lands so that they can do their work easier. The dwarves are under the protection of the Great Khan. Let all those who would do harm to a dwarf on our lands find a swift death. We look to the West. The lands that by all rights should be ours. Those godless wizards do not deserve the grazing lands that the Spirits and Immortals gave to us. With only the word of the Great Khan can we purge the world of all Glantrians. Until that day, we must do with little pokes to test the abilities of the Glantrians. I do not doubt our abilitie to take them, but it would not be wise to hunt down all Glantrians until we know how to trap them and destroy them fully. We, the Ethengars, will be known worldwide was the heroes who removed the Glantrians from the world. We would gladly let the dwarves ride with us in the purging of Glantrians lands. They felt the wrath of the Glantrians many years ago. All dwarves in Glantri were either killed or pushed out making Glantri a dwarf free land. The dwarves have shown their usefulness to the Great Khan. This armor I have on now is dwarven made. They deserve to live side by side with the Ethengars. They need to remain loyal to the Great Khan, though. For at the slightest word from the Great Khan we will show the dwarves the power of the Great Khan. Right now, we allow the dwarves to live among us, and we will give them full protection just as though they are one of us.

(From Trefeld Durobois, a Darokinian merchant)
From what I gathered, it seems as though both Ethengars and Rockhome dwarves have a general hatred of Glantri. The Glantrians need to pace themselves if they want to tick off their neighbors. For the Ethengars and Glantrians, it just seems to be a simple case of Glantrians being a little to harsh against the Ethengars for all their raids. If the Glantrians would just see this, I am sure that they could come to a diplomatic solution together. After all, all the Ethengar raiding came around the time when the Ethengar Khanates could not be called a nation. Now that the Ethengars are united together as a nation, they are becoming peaceful and pleasant. No where on my trade route can I find a safer passage than in the Ethengar Khanates. This goes to show just how peaceful the Ethengars can be if you give them half a chacne. It is amazing to see such saftey in the Ethengars when other locations, even in my own homeland, can promise such protection. I have never heard of a problem of Caravan attacks in the Ethengars ever since Moglai Khan came into power. I am certain that there will be peace between the Glantrians and Ethengars. I even had the privilege of transporting Ethengarian missionaries attempting to aid those in Glantri. They had to go by my caravan as the Glantrians currently turn back any Ethengars found on their borders. I think they do this out of fear of Ethengar old habits. However, if they would just see what I saw in Moglai Khan, then they would realize that they are not dealing with uncivilized people anymore. I mean, look, one of the Princes in Glantri is an Ethengar decent. Now, the situation between Rockhome and Glantri is a little more complicated. The Glantrians were in the middle of a internal war when the dwarves came to their lands in search of gold. The war of that kind sought all sort of mercenaries, and I believe the dwarves were misinformed about the availability of gold in Glantri. Dwarves have, in the past, a way of appearing in mountains and areas were precious metals and gold and such can be mined. Dwarves haven't shown any agressive tendencies when they do this, and they always are willing to work with the rulers of the land, so it is very benefitual to both parties. It is like a ladybug moving in a farmer's farm. Unfortunately, the Glantrians were in a pretty serious situation where they could hardly trust anyone, and right when the dwarves showed up, a plague broke out in Glantri. The Glantrians, in admist of all the chaos, became afraid of the dwarves and lashed out bit hard against the dwarves. The dwarves had to flee for their lives when the Glantrians started to strike at them like this. Some of them found their way into Darokin to settle in since they were too tired from all of their travels and running. I think for both sides, this situation would be hard to forgive. For the Glantrians because they have a strong sense of pride and are unwilling to admit their mistakes from time to time. For the dwarves since it was their last real conflict with anyone on the outside. We have been trying to mediate the elven and dwarven problems for a while, and I think that actually might be souring the relations between Glantri and Rockhome since they have no knew war to settle on their minds. Sometimes I wonder what the future will bring.

I hope you feel informed and not confused.