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Stalgard and I have been corresponding, and he's been patient with my endless questions. I've learned so much!
Kal-Sharok's society is structured differently from anything I know. They abandoned the traditional dwarven caste system ages ago. Now you have people like Stalgard, a stonemason and also a midwife-in-training. I just assumed he was a warrior. Of course he's that too, because everyone in Kal-Sharok is a warrior, even Stalgard's sister, who is primarily a scholar. Everyone helps keep the thaig safe. Stalgard says he has a few more months of Deep Roads patrols before he goes back to his building projects. He gets really excited about mortar.
(l still don't know if Stalgard is his first name, or his last, and it feels a bit rude to ask at this point.)