To make a long and extremely gory story short and sanitized, the goblins and dwarves buried their centuries-old animosity and slaughtered a ton of shitheads that thought they were untouchable. Now the United Miners Party is the left wing party, and Elderwoods the right wing. Mistweavers can't even get on primary ballots any more, and have to have shitty little caucuses, to try to find a candidate that's *not* permabanned from office.