Hill Dwarf
As a hill dwarf, you have keen senses, deep intuition, and remarkable resilience.
Bold and hardy, dwarves are known as skilled warriors, miners, and workers of stone and metal.
Their courage and endurance are also easily a match for any of the larger folk.
Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries with stoic endurance and little change.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Though they stand well under 5 feet tall, dwarves are so broad and compact that they can weigh as much as a human standing nearly two feet taller.
Dwarven 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 tones of earth.
Growth Rate & Stages
- Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, but they’re considered young until they reach the age of 50.
- Dwarves can live to be more than 400 years old, so the oldest living dwarves often remember a very different world
Ecology and Habitats
Dwarven kingdoms stretch deep beneath the mountains where the dwarves mine gems and precious metals and forge items of wonder.
Trustworthy members of other races are welcome in dwarf settlements, though some areas are off limits even to them.
Additional Information
Social Structure
The chief unit of dwarven society is the clan, and dwarves highly value social standing. Even dwarves who live far from their own kingdoms cherish their clan identities and affiliations, recognize related dwarves, and invoke their ancestors’ names in oaths and curses. To be clanless is the worst fate that can befall a dwarf.
Facial characteristics
Their hair, worn long but in simple styles, is usually black, gray, or brown, though paler dwarves often have red hair. Male dwarves value their beards highly and groom them carefully
Average Intelligence
Longevity grants them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
Dwarf’s name is granted by a clan elder, in accordance with tradition.
Proper dwarven name has been used and reused down through the generations.
A dwarf’s name belongs to the clan, not to the individual.
A dwarf who misuses or brings shame to a clan name is stripped of the name and forbidden by law to use any dwarven name in its place
Male Names: Adrik, Alberich, Baern, Barendd, Brottor, Bruenor, Dain, Darrak, Delg, Eberk, Einkil, Fargrim, Flint, Gardain, Harbek, Kildrak, Morgran, Orsik, Oskar, Rangrim, Rurik, Taklinn, Thoradin, Thorin, Tordek, Traubon, Travok, Ulfgar, Veit, Vondal
Female Names: Amber, Artin, Audhild, Bardryn, Dagnal, Diesa, Eldeth, Falkrunn, Finellen, Gunnloda, Gurdis, Helja, Hlin, Kathra, Kristryd, Ilde, Liftrasa, Mardred, Riswynn, Sannl, Torbera, Torgga, Vistra
Clan Names: Balderk, Battlehammer, Brawnanvil, Dankil, Fireforge, Frostbeard, Gorunn, Holderhek, Ironfist, Loderr, Lutgehr, Rumnaheim, Strakeln, Torunn, Ungart
Major Organizations
Hill Tribes of Morgrit
Order of Menwarrev
Republic of Tarem
Common Etiquette Rules
Individual dwarves are determined and loyal, true to their word and decisive in action, sometimes to the point of stubbornness. Many dwarves 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 one dwarf’s hunt for vengeance can become a full-blown clan feud.
Genetic Ancestor(s)
Lifespan
350
Average Height
4-5ft Tall
Average Weight
150lb
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Dwarven 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 tones of earth.