If you ask what work the peasants like the most, it would undoubtedly be apprenticing with Dwarves.
The wages and benefits of being an apprentice with the Dwarves are not significantly different from other jobs, yet being an apprentice to the Dwarves signifies endless possibilities. The lord needs skilled craftsmen like these, especially Dwarven apprentices. Those who can earn the approval of the stern and strict Dwarves are almost guaranteed a prosperous future.
This is also one of the few advancement paths besides being promoted to a sergeant.
Therefore, when the Dwarf Rune Artisan Delong Feinson announced he needed three apprentices, almost all the peasants responded enthusiastically, eager to be chosen as apprentices.
