'I do not like this, ${PLAYER}. I do not like this at all! Not every dwarf-clan is good-hearted, and treacherous, wicked dwarves have troubled the Longbeards throughout history. Our cousins in the Blue Mountains could speak at length about the exploits of the villainous Dourhands, and theirs is not the only name of ill repute. Durin will have his reinforcements! I will command the assemblage of a Longbeard army the like of which has not been seen in seventy years!

'Do you think this unnecessary? I assure you it is not. I will not allow my son to be outnumbered by Zhélruka or Stout-axes! The Zhélruka have long quarreled with my people, and the Stout-axes could not have remained thralls to Sauron for so long without it affecting them deeply.

'You remain unconvinced? Go then to Nabgûn-mazaru, the home of Stáli the Hewer, south-west of the entrance to the Dwelling-halls, and ask him about the Greymauls. Then you will see the importance of caution, even among dwarves. Especially among dwarves.'

Stáli the Hewer, a Longbeard artist and sculptor of some renown, lives at Nabgûn-mazaru, south-west of the entrance to the Dwelling-halls of Erebor.

Objectives

• Talk to Stáli the Hewer

Stáli the Hewer has been restoring a mosaic depicting the death of Mótsog and the end of the Greymaul Rebellion, and he has invited you to admire it. The mosaic is currently in his workshop of Nabgûn-mazaru, but it will be returned to the hall where it came from once his work is finished.

Objectives

• Examine the mosaic depicting the death of Mótsog

Stáli the Hewer, a Longbeard artist and sculptor of some renown, lives south-west of the entrance to the Dwelling-halls of Erebor.

Objectives

• Talk to Stáli the Hewer