Khedez

Khedez is the home of the Lockwood dwarves, a proud and wealthy city, one of the few Dwarven cities built wholly and intentionally above ground. Unlike their earthbound cousins, the Dwarves of Lake Lockwood rely on seemingly impossible tools, vehicles and strategies to extract gold and gems from beneath the waves. Though they are territorial and care deeply about patents and copyright law, their reliance on the Lockwood Guild Union for converting their resources into to wealth has led them to be less isolationist than some of the other Dwarven cultures around the world. As a result, some of their technology, boats in particular, can be found floating around the black waters of Lockwood Lake under human or, in exceedingly rare circumstances, Elven control.