If you are worried about some kind of global goal. Then don't worry, it will.
However, the orcs and bandits here are negative characters. Orcs put on the village, and the bandits are called bandits for a reason.
The only race where you can empathize is the spiders)
But at the cave, the gnomes count as acting under hypnosis.
I have additional options on my mind.
1."Plot? What plot?". Just missions, without any attempts to explain why dwarves are fightings with such and such enemy.
2.Rebranding. Making dwarves openly imperialist and emracing it.
"But at the cave, the gnomes count as acting under hypnosis."
Wait, what? Who hypnotised them to attack spiders?
