Fjorlosia

Fjorlosia is a primarily dwarven Realm that occupies the northwestern edge of the Virosian Continent. Fjorlosia is one of the elder homes to sentient life on Virosia, and hosts a diverse populace of the various dwarven peoples. Vulkjornn also finds their home here, far to the north in this realm, at the caldera of Mt. Vulkjornn. This Realm has its seat in Fjorladdr, by the Mythrokar council.   The Realm formed primarily as a way to prevent further in-fighting and civil war, and to protect itself first and foremost from invading forces. They could not possibly prevent their common enemy from invading whilst bickering with one another, and so the clans of what is now Old Fjorlosia bound together at long last. The name, however, has technically never changed, but the feeling of patriotism that a dwarf would feel used to be more strongly attached to their own clan rather than Fjorlosia. The Veldin Pact, or what humans call "The Welding" was an instrumental cultural milestone for the dwarven people that aimed more cultural identity to Fjorlosia than for what clan they are born into.   The Fjorlosian people are extremely isolationist, though not necessarily opposed to visitation and outsiders. On the contrary, they are often overjoyed to engage with frivilosities with other cultures, but there is almost always a wall. They do not speak their own tongue in the presence of humans or elves. Rarely they will with the Talii, as their disposition is less disparate and only when properly intoxicated, though still never to teach them. What they truly gatekeep are their crafting techniques. A dwarf would be hard pressed to take on an apprentice from outside of their own family, much less from outside their culture, and so the ways they mine, with what technique they create steel, and the creation of the tools therein are exclusively guarded secrets.