While almost each and every Dwarf from these settlements, and especially Mel Maldur, boast of their independence, and how it has been kept thanks to the spilled blood of their fathers and ancestors, and how the walls of their fortresses are so impenetrable that make them the only thing that has resisted the Empire, reality is, of course, more complex.

While their relation with other races strongly depends on their specific background and to which of the three previously described groups they belong to, Dwarves tend to generally keep some distrustful distance with members of other races: be this outright and straightforward, if not even blunt, or keeping a fake smile of convenience. Dwarves living within Humans though, tend to be more pragmatic about their situation, trying to make the best of what they are given, and to gravitate towards isolation, and just trying to keep a low profile to go on with their lives. When confronted with abuse towards other non-humans, they often react with a sort of at least apparent -but often real- passive neutrality to it. They regard the Elves in particular often with pity or contempt, as folks that can not accept the harsh, but factual reality of the world they live in.

The historical presence of Dwarven mountain strongholds, and of dwarves as workers in mines, often makes them a little closer to the Underworld and its Ilthir inhabitants, granting the Dwarves with a role of some kind of intermediary, and an especially privileged position in the blackmarket business, or as simple back alley traders.

Dwarves do not see Ogroids too differently than how Humans do, that is, as savages, or at least barbarians, though some of them also might see some qualities in the stereotype of the ‘noble savage’. Not much is to be said about Beastkin, which are seen as nothing but dangerous beasts, or at best, in case of large ones, as potentially useful beasts, as hard labor force in mines or construction works.