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The New Compact
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The powerful celestial meadowlark had driven the dwarrowfolk to their deeps, and the yak king, the most skilled meadowlark, demanded tribute.
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The dwarrowfolk burrowed deeper until an Elder (mountain goat of the Fifth Race), came to their aid.
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The goat used her power to safely hide the dwarrowfolk in the earth and asked the insects to arrange a summit with the yak king.
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There, the goat pointed at the dead dwarrowfolk and yaks and asked the yak king for an accounting of the lost lives.
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Guilt beat his brow and he abdicated on the spot.
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A peace was proclaimed, the dwarrowfolk created a circlet of their secret metal which looked gold silver and firered in turn, and was worked so fine as to be a wig of metal hairs, such that the yak who wore it would always look with open face but have a stronger circlet than any helmet.
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In exchange the yak priests gave the dwarrowlord seeds and carefully prepared earth, which gave the dwarrowfolk wood, grass and oxygen. The magic wood that grew from the soil of the Trust was incredibly light and powerful.
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