Oh, I did leave for a bit. Dinner guests and whatnot.

Um, I would like to play out the crime thing. The warrior could just know she killed someone, or even just a deserter. Whatever. I like the first though. She could be a former soldier or even just a normal elf that happened into a bad situation, then got blamed. I like the idea of her being a normal elf in a bad situation though, accused of murder.

As for the dwarves...we could have most of them just trying to survive under the surface except for a few companies of warriors that keep people away from the entrances or just to kill creatures up top for food. Something different than bats and rats and whatever else lives inside mountains...monsters.