As Daki explained her limitations Frost was forced to ponder the outlined problems.
"For labour the Niflheim gnomes I'm designing should be able to settle right in when it comes to basic forge work perhaps even being able to help with the more advanced processes without much aid." His Niflheim gnomes were slated to be far more skilled and talented than any of his ice dwarves, a boon that came at an expense of weak combat capabilities.
"In regards to materials, whatever we can exhume from the Dungeon's mines either Calder will provide, or we can purchase outright with DP -as long as our reserves holdout." Though they'd managed to produce a significant war chest of several hundred thousand DP that had to cover a whole range of areas not just materials.