#title:Lore of the Petty Ones II
#author:{name:dwarf_male}
#types:durins_folk,blue_mountains
#
...and so many exiled ones journeyed over the mountains and settled in the western lands before any others arrived. Of smaller stature they were, and their skill in smithing and crafting was diminished. The Elves in their arrogance saw our petty kin as beasts to be hunted. So they dwindled in the West, until the true Khazâd passed over the mountains, and the Elves, meeting them, at once realised what they had been hunting, and tried to atone for their terrible mistakes. Little is known of the Petty-kindreds in after days, but the lorekeepers believe the last of their people disappeared in the Great Drowning...