I'll have to play it again, but I'm pretty sure the order of events was this, gnomes go down to mine, and find runepowder, set up village to do so. Duergar are hired by true-soul Nere to excavate the old temple, they're also slavers who come across the gnome party, and enslave them to excavate the temple, Thulla escapes, Thrinn sends Gekh to find Thulla, or sends word to Gekh to retrieve her, they attack the myconids and we show up.
I think the gnomes set up the lake village because we see their corpses, the ones next to a mine shaft are said to be executed, we find numerous journals from named gnomes we later meet, including a journal written by their leader in one of the shacks.
How glut fits in I'm not sure, but he says that it was duergar who destroyed his hive, so it's possible his hive was in between the village and the other colony or he was cohabitating with the gnomes, or he was just unlucky when duergars were exploring
Last edited by Sozz; 03/12/21 08:05 AM.
