Editing Dwarves in Polesia (section)

===Summery of Modern events===	

Around -1,200 CA the Kadazhem Empire began to decline. Centuries of plots and political intrigue started coming to a head, and the direct line of succession failed, leaving room for multiple claimants on the throne. With this instability many of the outlying settlements found themselves alone against the hostile races dwelling deeper in the Skydark. Drow and yallith began to prey upon them, tentatively at first and then in full force, invading and destroying the outermost strongholds and settlements. The successors of the Amazhekem Lag during this time reacted slowly, costing the lives of thousands of dwarves and depleting their armies so that they were spread too thin to offer resistance. Many golems were also lost or destroyed, weakening the dwarves further still.

	In the midst of all this turmoil the dwarves were also beset upon from an insidious threat within Radezhka itself in -1,130 CA. Certain dwarves had been converted to the blasphemous teaching of one Anzur HéNazhrek who brought the worship of the Old Ones. He was unusually charismatic for one of his people and gained a sizable following both amongst the common folk and the nobility. It was later found that Anzur was in fact an illithid, one who had gained the service of his race’s degenerate yallith offspring which he used to launch a coupe and actually succeeded in assassinating the Amazhek Lag at the time, nearly ending Kadazh’s line entirely. For nearly five years he ruled Radezhka and the dwarves were in turmoil, divided and leaderless. Then in -1,059 CA a distant descendant of Kadazh (Korzhek HéBorukh) was discovered, and under his leadership Radezhka was retaken, Anzur dispatched, and his yallith cult scattered and driven off. Despite this spectacular beginning to his reign, Korzhek was never able to do more than secure what little territory his people had maintained, the Kadazhem Empire was gone.

	In the millennia since, the dwarves have remained both stagnant and at the same time vibrant, never claiming more than a third of their land, but always pressing against their enemies and at times managing to retake and hold their lost territory for a time before again losing it again when their enemies amass anew. It is a source of great frustration to many dwarves who long for the glory days of the Kadazhem rule. Currently, however, the rulers of the remaining territory have in majority become content with their station, even relinquishing the title of Amazhek Lag for the simple title of Amazhek (kings, no longer emperors). During the height of the Lataneran Empire, they managed to keep their independence but did come into the fold as a client state. With the decline of the Lataneran Empire the dwarves more or less resumed business as usual and little has changed from that time to this.