The Pech of the Orstar

The pech are small earth-elemental folk, a little taller than gnomes, with rough, exposed skin. A community of them fled the Orstar, their town on the Elemental Plane of Earth (The Orstar), and hid in a cave city in the Underdark beyond Midzen Id, behind an illusory false wall. They keep leashed kharga that fly at the end of twenty-foot tethers, mining and refining metal out of the cave walls.

The pech have no leader: they describe their system as a co-operative, agrarian, communist geoism. They had invited stone giants to help them fight off a neogi invasion, but the giants stayed and occupied the Orstar, and the pech hoped to wait them out for a couple of hundred years until the giants died or grew bored. In 1034 PC earth elementals asked the party for help with their "giant problem" (see The Underdark Road from Midzen Id). Some pech fled through an earth gate rather than face the party.