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Malakaus is an orc. A retired one at that: If he was so easy to anger he would have died in a fight a long time ago. He's better at controlling his rage now. It'd take a lot more than refusing one of his offers to insult him. Still, I suppose at some point they might have clashed for one reason or another. Seeing that Malakaus is the overseer of the iron mines, maybe at some point Ves might have unknowingly taken ore out without their permission? I can see that with Ves, begin a rogue, he could have sneaked in there in order to get ore for his forge. But one way or another Malakaus finds out where all the missing metal has been going to and confronts Ves about it. After all Malakaus can't just let any person, even someone from the village, just go inside the mines and take whatever they wanted. Otherwise outsiders could just come in, strip mine the entire area, and leave the village without any ore for themselves to use. Eventually this turns into a rather big tiff, but when it's resolved it ends with Malakaus getting his sweet Pick-Axe and Ves get's free reign into the mines.
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I was never insinuating that he would be insulted, just disappointed by my choice, you know with not staying and helping to improve the business. So to help show that I'm not going against you with my smithy, I make you a wicked ass pickaxe and we set up some kind of commercial agreement where together we export tools and other metal products and split the profits appropriately.