Dwarves

Dwarves

Dwarven history says there once were three overclans: the Grailwarden, the Stonemight (now called the Stonelost), and the Earthsingers. Few know of this third tribe, for no one has heard from them in millennia.

Grailwarden Dwarves

In ages long past, the Grailwarden dwarves settled the Dragon’s Nest Mountains. The Grailwarden dwarves take their name from the White Grail, a fabulously powerful artifact they uncovered as they carved their main city Ironforge into the side of a mountain. They named the fortress Grail Keep and proclaimed that watching over the Grail was their destiny. They have done so ever since.
Grailwarden dwarf artisans are known for their skill with gears, lenses, and other devices. Unlike other dwarves, they also are known for their use of magic—but it is a studious, methodical approach to magic. They treat spells as they would any science. Dwarves in general are fabulous artisans, and throughout the Republic people prize dwarf-crafted items more than any other.
Grailwarden dwarves are usually fairly serious, dedicated, and hardworking, but not as gruff or unsociable as other dwarves. They get along with humans, but the various types of elves are only tolerable to them. They dislike orcs, but not as much as other dwarves do. They have no general opinions about most other races.

Stonelost Dwarves

The Stonelost are the displaced builders of Dwarvenhearth, their ancient realm below the city of Denwick. Driven out of their ancestral home by Ghul hundreds of years ago, they refuse to go back, and now they live in and around the city of Denwick.
No non-dwarf knows, or at least understands, why they will not go back to reclaim their ancient city. To the Stonelost, however, it represents a life they feel they no longer deserve. By deserting their home, they lost the rights to it. Yet they refuse to permit anyone else to go into Dwarvenhearth, either. That would be a defilement of a perfect memory.
The Stonelost have great skill with stone and metal. In the city, they frequently work as artisans, architects, engineers, or merchants dealing in stone or metal. Most dwarves in Denwick are Stonelost by a fair margin, although some do not actually call Denwick home. These actually live in the largest gathering of Stonelost dwarves, Kaled Del, a subterranean community beneath Denwick near one of the entrances to Dwarvenhearth.

Earthsinger Dwarves

A clan of dwarves lives in the The Restless Rise Mountains home to many of the savage tribes in the Land of Hargu.  It is possible that these Dwarves are descendants of the lost Earthsinger Dwarves.  The Earthsinger Dwarves in myths are compared favorably to the great elven druids and it said they command the spirt of rock and earth itself, bidding it to do their will.