There are some 200 to 300 dwarfs in Pavis. They are all members of the Flintnail cult. Most are masons and metal-workers, and are willing to teach humans these skills or trade for their services. The Pavis dwarfs work iron as well. Dwarftown is beneath Rich Hill in New Pavis but there are rumours that the dwarfs have re-opened tunnels to their old hideouts in the Rubble.
However, it is as stonemasons that the Pavis dwarfs are best known. They built the buildings of the Big Rubble. They helped with the foundations for the Sartarite wall and built the new temple to Pavis, which contains a Flintnail shrine. When the Lunar army came, the Flintnail cultists welcomed them at least as heartily as did the Pavis cultists, and built the bridge from New Pavis to Badside for imperial coin.
Inside the Rubble, about 100 beings, mostly dwarfs, live in the New Flintnail Temple permanently. They have no apparent means of support, for they never farm, herd, nor hunt. Instead, they are masonic mercenaries. They hire themselves out to build fortifications, houses, or anything else out of stone.
The New Flintnail Temple is the apparent center of the dwarf community in the Big Rubble, but it is really only one of the surface outlets for the underground burg. Dwarfs are common here, and the leaders are mostly dwarfs. Visitors are always welcome at the temple, but never past the outer two rooms of the complex. Visitors usually are confined to the single outer courtroom. Food and lodging are available with quality equal to that of a three-star inn in Pavis.
Flintnail is, by its very nature, associated with the Mostal cult. However, Flintnail’s penchant for humans and his proclivity for giving wondrous gifts to human supplicants has effectively barred his cult from direct dealings with most Mostali and dwarfs. The Pavis dwarfs are considered to be apostates by nearly all other dwarfs. The tunnels in Dwarftown of New Pavis are rumoured to lead to such dwarf strongholds as Dwarf Knoll and Greatway, but no Flintnail member, dwarf or human, has ever confirmed this, and known actions of cult members seem to contradict this rumour.
As apostates, do the Flintnail dwarves age and die? To be honest, that’s unknown. Now we know that apostate dwarves are “broken”, and the Pavis dwarfs are considered to be apostates by nearly all other dwarfs. That being said, even broken dwarfs are very long-lived. Given that the human community of New Pavis is only 75 years old, humans might not yet know the answer.
Do the Flintnail dwarfs have more cordial relations with the Aldryami in the Garden? Uniquely for a dwarf-related cult, Flintnail practices tolerance for elves. Individual members of the cult have forgotten this tolerance without retribution, but it is a basic principle, because Pavis was half-Elven, and his daughter was the wife of Flintnail.