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Under the power of the gem, the gnomes changed. Those
who coveted wealth became dwarves. Those who were curi-
ous became the first kender. These new races spread quickly
throughout Ansalon.
As their mountain and hill dwarf cousins were always
quick to point out, gully dwarves were the result of inter-
marriage between dwarves and gnomes. Unfortunately, the
members of this new race lacked all the better qualities of
their ancestors.
Seeing the result, dwarven and gnomish societies banned
this sort of intermarriage, and members of the new race
were driven out, most vehemently by dwarves. Forced to
grub for existence among abandoned ruins and the refuse
piles of cities abandoned after the Cataclysm, the gully
dwarves were free to develop their own culture - or lack of
it. Named Aghar, or "anguished," humans later nicknamed
them "gully dwarves," noting their poor living conditions
and the general disgust felt toward them by nearly every
other race on Krynn.
Such was the lot of some three hundred Aghar living in
Mudhole. Before the Cataclysm, Mudhole had been a thriv-
ing, productive mine, supplying the forges of Thorbardin
above with rich iron
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