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I thought they found some people who had been living behind the mountain for 6,000 years and nobody spotted them before.
Community living in isolation under a mountain for 6,000 years.
I bet they’d be rather surprised at what humanity has become in the intervening years; I wonder how humans would adapt to an underground lifestyle in 6,000 years.
They call themselves Belters and are uncannily tall and lanky and speak in kind of a Creole mash-up accent and language
Under a mountain? No, clearly their entire society revolves around digging for gold while dodging dragons and balrogs