I thought they found some people who had been living behind the mountain for 6,000 years and nobody spotted them before.
Community living in isolation under a mountain for 6,000 years.
I bet they’d be rather surprised at what humanity has become in the intervening years; I wonder how humans would adapt to an underground lifestyle in 6,000 years.
They call themselves Belters and are uncannily tall and lanky and speak in kind of a Creole mash-up accent and language
Er, I suspect you’ve got that exactly backwards.
They call themselves Dverger and are uncannily squat and heavily built and speak in a kind of German/Mongol mash-up accent and language.
And carry picks and axes and wear helmets and beards.
Even the women have beards
Under a mountain? No, clearly their entire society revolves around digging for gold while dodging dragons and balrogs
