@Boney quick question that you can ignore.
How clan'ish and…territorial? (I don't think that's the right word but I don't know what is.) are the elves in DL's compared to WRFP? Who tend towards being of the mind that everyone but my clan, friends, and I guess this group of smelly humans that I tolerate, but don't tell them, can go die in a fire for all I care.
And is it to the level of different to the human average that mathy might think it's a elven instincts and minds at play rather then just cultural. Like dwarfs with grudges and people wide perfectionism.
Or is it only at the level that Mathy could totally see developing in a human nation?
Just wondering because I remember the 'saying' 'the group most fendup with elves are other elves.' And your showing some of how dwarfs do have some nature differences to humans, not just nurture.
Maybe they really are a herd of zebra vs human/dwarfs herd of horses.
Civilisation based on inherent social values vs logical and convenient cooptation between groups of family values….