Dwarves

Mountain dwarves (Mordanic) are separatists, oppressed by Hill Dwarf (Riklander or Rikkish) unionist/loyalists. Mordanics hew to the worship of Moradin, held since time imemorial to be the creator of the Dwarven race. However, some centuries ago, Hill Dwarves from Rikland invaded and conquered the subterranean cities of the Mordanics and imposed the worship of Balfenur and the government of Rikland. Rikland quickly went about the settlement of Balfenic families and installed them as nobles in the previously Mordanic cities, and enshrined them in law as privileged citizens over the Mordanics, who were treated as little better than serfs. The Mordanics, oppressed though they are, oppose this system by clinging to the worship of Moradin and forming paramilitary and terrorist groups to oppose the Balfenics. The Balfenics, in turn, oppose the Mordanics with the full power of the state, and with Loyalist paramilitary groups of their own. Lots of hatred on both sides with guerilla tactics on the Mordanic side and brutal security crackdowns from the Balfenics.