For Kaelonde, who had fallen into a frenzy of war, Xilan's emergence was truly untimely.
Everyone in Kaelonde, from top to bottom, was cheering for the recent major victory at the front lines. Now, not only had they recaptured the long-lost Helong Mountain Range, but they were also marching toward Golan. Soon, those humans who once looked down upon the Dwarves would grovel beneath the might of Dwarven machinery.
For the Dwarves, the submission of humans brought an indescribable pleasure.
The race of Dwarves had always revered human culture, learning from them technologies of textile, agriculture, trade, noble etiquette, and so on. The upper-class Dwarves took pride in wearing clothes woven by humans and Three-eyed Ape People, instilling the notion that closeness to humans equaled civilization, and distance from them equaled savagery.