Clan Matu

Dwarves of Khavit Cavern

Clan Matu is considered one of the two founding clans of Dwarf kind on Aldern, along with the Clan Sadu. Dwarf history claims that the Kefid people came to dwell within Khavit Cavern during the era of ice of the Randagri Period. The people settled their new home, with the Matu building structures on the cavern floor while the Sadu carved homes along the walls.

Dwarven traditions and the Stonefoot Carvings state the Matu and Sadu struggling to survive the glacier filled Cutting Mountains. Starving and hunted by Dragon, the people were guided by divine light into a glacier cave, down into the depths of Maarm Mountain. There they found Khavit Cavern, abundant with food and water, warm and safe from the threat of the dragons. The two clans built a city in the cavern, a home for the first dwarves, and the foundations of the Kephic Empire to come.

Type

Geopolitical, Clan

Statues of Matu the Strong can be found throughout the central Cutting Mountains. Primarily near surface caves leading into Dwarven territories. To the unlearned these statues depict Matu the founder of Clan Matu. To the dwarves however these statues do not depict a man, but a people. While there may have been a Matu in history, and he may have founded the clan of his name, the clan has long surpassed the man in legend. The name Matu in every Stonefoot Carving is always considered to be depicting the clan.