Dwarf
The Stout Folk are deliberate and steadfast, with a proud history as great artisans, builders, and warriors. The still hold to the glory of their ancient ways and traditions stubbornly defending what remains of their old domains beneath hill and mountain.
According to their own legends, the first of their peoples were called the grillf and were formed from iron, earth, and stone after the power of life was breathed into them in the heart of the world. They found their way to the surface and, from there, spread across each continent.
Thousands of years of settlement and separation divided the dwarves into distinct subraces: the most common are known as the hill dwarf and found throughout the North and their ancestral lands of Grililath, the occasional mountain dwarf can also be found in Grililath but they are more frequent in the southern lands of Paracia, while since the end of the Godswar the deep dwarves, or duergar defend their Underrealm settlements.
Bold and hardy, known as skilled warriors, miners, and workers of stone and metaI. Standing well under 5 feet tall, broad and compact, weighing as much as a human standing nearly two
feet taller. Their courage and endurance are also easily a match for any of the larger folk.
Grillf skin ranges from deep brown to a paler hue tinged with red, but the most common shades are light brown or deep tan, like certain earthy tones. Their hair, worn long but simply, is usually black, gray, or brown, though paler dwarves often have red hair. Male dwarves value their beards highly and groom them carefully.
Grillf can live to be more than 400 years old, so the oldest among them remember living in very different times, even a different world. The very oldest among them remembering the events at the end of the Godswar and of walking alongside the gods themselves. This longevity grants them a perspective on the world shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack.
Dwarves by their nature are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries with stoic endurance and little change. They respect the traditions of their clans, tracing their ancestry back to the founding of their most ancient strongholds in the youth
of the world. They don't abandon those traditions lightly.
ParI of those traditions is devotion to the gods of the dwarves, who uphold the dwarven ideals of industrious labor, skill in battle, and devotion to the forge. Individual dwarves are determined and loyal, true to their word and decisive in action, sometimes to the point of stubbornness. Many have a strong sense of justice, and they are slow to forget wrongs they have suffered. A wrong done to one dwarf is a wrong done to the dwarf's entire clan, so what begins as a hunt for vengeance can become a full-blown clan feud.
Dwarves who take up the adventuring life might be motivated by a desire for treasure, for its own sake, for a specific purpose, or even out of an altruistic desire to help others. Others are driven by the command or inspiration of a deity, a direct calling or simply a desire to bring glory to one of the dwarf gods. Clan and ancestry are also important motivators. A dwarf might seek to restore a clan's lost honor, avenge an ancient wrong the clan suffered, or earn a new place within the clan after having been exiled or a dwarf might search for the axe wielded by a mighty ancestor, lost on the field of battle centuries ago.
RPG Datasheet
Dwarf
Player's Handbook page 18Subrace 1: Hill Dwarf
Player's Handbook page 20Subrace 2: Mountain Dwarf
Player's Handbook page 20Subrace 3: Deep Dwarf or Duergar
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