Really? The sky dwarves absolutely remind me of the various merchant republics like Venice and Genoa but with a steam punk twist. Heavy mercantile base, constantly competing with each other for the best contracts and deposits, etc. Mix it with some real pirate or age of sail influence and I really like it,
I bet we'll see more stuff with the water elves. look at some of the monster hybrid stuff we just saw with the Khanite elves. I bet we'll see similar things for these guys.
I'm also pumped for the made to order stuff.