Verdis

The Verdis tribe were a society of subterranean dwarves and gnomes from northeast Lakay, living in the city Mantle.
They were incredibly rich and extravagant, and technologically advanced. They were decadent and knew no humbleness, for Mantle was an amazingly advanced bastion of Dwarven knowledge, perhaps as great as Kol Darim and twice as rich. 
Verdis dwarves had gold-toned bronze skin, often marked with calloused hands and the beaded perspiration of the intense heat of deep Mantle, and their beards were magnificent, rich and rolling, much like the Nethir peoples.
In their capital, Mantle, gold flowed like water, and the city went down to the mantle of the earth. They were great metalworkers and smiths, inventors and masons alike. 
== In the 1510s and 20s ==
They were led in the early 1500s by King Ehrouk the Handsome, His Eminence, a very large dwarf. His council was made up of his son Prince Nadir, and his advisors Vice Regent Fanakhati and Minister Ahmad. The king also had a young Luskan woman, Phoenicia Farthington, as his translator. 
 
The Lakayan Liberators visited the Verdis in 1513 to appeal for their help in overthrowing Fort Helena, which the Verdis replied with a generous donation of weaponary and The Crustaceous Apparatus.
When The Lakayan Federation was founded, they eventually joined. King Ehrouk ruled over the state of Verdis, with Vice Regent Fanakhati as his representative in the Fort's dealings.
In late 1520, the Verdis struck a natural vein of Coaxite deep beneath the lithosphere. In early 1521, Chek and the West Marchers travelled to Mantle and convinced the court that the ore was worthless. They then bought most of it off the Verdis.
== In the 1550s ==
By the year 1560, King Ehrouk had passed away from a disease contracted whilst eating jellied mantis shrimp. He was succeeded by his son, now King Nadir the Sly, his Eminence. The Vice Regent was still the gnome Fanakhati, but since the old minister's retirement, now the court's finances were overseen by Minister Chu. Phoenicia had also left on some travels of some sort...
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