Clan Deephold

(see Deepholme for more info on the city.)

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 deep ones, and forgotten, only for a ragtag group of dwarves to emerge some twenty years later. Though they lived, the group emerged different, altered by their experience. Dark rings surrounded their eyes, and their skin had turned an ashey grey color. Their hair is always black, even when they near the end of their life, having become older then most. The dwarves of deep hold 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.