Aeroquar Clan

The Aeroquar are a clan of dwarves known for their novel methods of mining.

Mining
The Aeroquar take their name from their method of mining, which is highly secretive on specifics, but pretty open on vagueness.

The Aeroquar have a class of specialists known as ostomancers. Ostomancers are capable of opening portals to other planes, and keeping them open without letting anything out that doesn't have a token that they have inscribed with runes.

Multiple ostomancers hold open a gate large enough for an Aeroquar tubecraft, roughly the size of a blue whale. The Aeroquar then don their breathing gear, an apparatus known as a hyperdus, and ride on through the portal. The portals typically go to planes where the atmosphere is of gaseous precious materials, including gold, silver, mercury, platinum, copper, or electrum.

Onboard the airship, tubes are opened, and a vacuum is created by pouring water down the tube right before the gas comes. The gas is sucked in, and the tubes are only closed when the reservoir is full. Then, from the reservoir. the materials are poured into molds made from soapstone, to cool the gas. They then ride through the portal again, making the gas instantly solid, and leaving the Aeroquar with ingots of these materials.

Magmechar Clan
The Magmechar Clan are a variant of Aeroquar that use the same technology, but only to convert magma from the plane of Eklithas into precious stones. They do not go to any other planes but Eklithas and Terra.