Subject: What's going on

OOC: I think the name of the main mountain range up there is the White Fang Mountains.

Galeheart sits down at a table across from Ragnar, looking at the other dwarf. "So you're from the White Fang Mountains, Huh? Never been up there. They say its alot colder out side than it is here, or at least it is in the lowlands."

"But to your question, I guess what I can tell you is well enough known to the dwarves. You're right, we're a tight lipped people when it comes to outsiders."

OODM: I will write more after lunch.

Subject: What's going on

"Ok you know that the old king died a few months ago. The king was young, as dwarves go, and did not have a wife or an heir yet. I'm not going to bore you with the details of dwarven clan relationships and such, but Barden, the old king's cousin, was next in line to the throne. Barden's a good enough fella, but he lacks vision and is a bit vain. But he's a dwarf through and through and no way he would do what some of the rumors say. Some of those idiots out there think Barden had something to do with the old kings death. I don't hold to that. There's no way he'd do a thing like that. Rumor is that the head cleric of Moradain did the truth thing on him and he passed."

"Now that's not saying he was too upset at being king. The worse I can say about him is that he was none too interested in exactly how the old king died. I mean they never found his body. Found his Axe , but not his body. Good thing for him they found that axe. He'd have tough time making the claim without the axe. He's got the crown for sure. The Crown never leaves the main vaults except for affairs of state and such, but the Axe, that's a different story."

"The King always carries the Axe of the Deep, it is one of his badges of office. No King has had to actually use it in over 100 years but it goes back centuries search parties found it at the bottom of a pile of rubble but not the body of the king. Barden said that for the king to be separated from the Axe meant that he was dead. There was some grumbling but Barden was able to convince the thanes of the clans that the old king was dead."

"What else would you know?"

OODM: Any other questions?