Clan Deephold

(see Dwarves) The Way Of The Long Death originated from the dwarves of Deephold‌, a strategically unimportant backwater city forgotten by most dwarves. They were beset by The Dark Ones‌, and Gray Dwarves/The Forgotten‌, only for a ragtag group of dwarves to emerge some twenty years later from the now destroyed settlement. Though they lived, the group emerged different, altered by their experience. Dark rings surrounded their eyes, and their skin had turned an ashy grey color. Their hair is always black, even when they near the end of their long lives, having become older than most. The dwarves of Deephold gained a strange longevity, a grim countenance, and an unnerving manner of speech. They also learned a strange method of fighting that came with their close, intimate relationship with death. Clan Deephold was born that day, but the way of the long death was also founded at the same time. Since then others outside the clan have studied and mastered the way and though they do not gain the same appearance as the way’s founders, they almost always become grim, quiet, and macabre.