Cracks Form in Eastforge

Cultural event

Tensions between the Dwarven Clans begin to cause trouble for the dwarven hope of a united kingdom.

As the dwarves of the south entered the city the kingdom began to grow at an exponential rate, but so did the friction between the different clans. Each dwarven clan is connected by a single trade that they specialize in. In a normal dwarven city that clan would have complete control over all aspects of that trade from education of crafts- dwarfs to the pricing and availability of production. However, in the now unified kingdom there were multiple clans that had previously controlled the same trade in different kingdoms.
    In a few cases this was solved by arranged marriages to unite the clans into larger, and more powerful, clans. But in many cases this caused the clans to resist working together and start competing with one another. This introduced a level of chaos in the dwarfs usually orderly lives that rapidly became a problem. With the amount of work now split between multiple clans there were more workers than the kingdom needed. In this competitive environment, the younger and less skilled clans were not able to get as much work as the more established clans, which lead to the fall of many smaller clans and the formation of slums where these broken families ended up. Naturally, this inequality soon led to the growth of crime within the city, and paralyzed the Council of Thanes on how to respond. The new kingdom was reaching a boiling point.