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Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet,
who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and
metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of
years. The dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of
foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they
carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and
artisans are ever mentioned in the stories, so it is a mystery where they get
their food.
There are two common varieties of dwarfplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in …, one of which lives in mountain tunnels,
and the other of which lives under hills. Although they have quite a bit in
common, there are certain distinctions that would cause you to wonder whether
they are of the same race at all. They never appear together in the legends.
Both varieties are reported to have good night-vision (their caves are rarely as
well-lit as men would like), and both are skilled at combat.
Dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … live in a highly structured society. The highest of dwarven nobility is
the heiraurin (hI-rau'-rin), who rules over a group of hills or mountains. In
some areas, there is a High Heiraurin, or Heiraurinilinin (hI'rou-rin-nil'&-nin),
who rules over many kingdoms. The ideals of loyalty and honor are taken very
seriously in dwarven society. More than one story involves one dwarfplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … ordering
another of inferior rank to suicide, and being obeyed. In at least one account,
however, the law required that the higher-ranking dwarfplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … be subsequently put to
death.
Under the heiraurins are the royal family, any sufficiently aged male member of
which has absolute power over all other dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … save the heiraurin himself. The
royal family is usually housed in an underground castle, which is designed (over
hundreds of years, some stories say) to be completely impermeable to attack.
The Castles of the Dwarves
It is told that, during the Hedanufan Wars, at the half-point of the Zioth,
the human king Hedanuf's army arrived at the mountains, outnumbering the
dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … ten to one. The dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … defended their territory with strength and
bravery, and diminished Hedanuf's forces, but could not hold back the onrush
of men. The dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … were still outnumbered by the time the army reached the
Heiraurinilinin's castle. The castle, however, turned out to be more of a
challenge than the entire dwarven army. Guarded by stone and iron, and
riddled with traps and pits, it took eighteen months to penetrate the
fifty-foot deep layered doorway to get to the main body of the fortress.
Past the doors, the fortress was such a maze of tunnels and traps, and so
full of snipers and assassins, that Hedanuf never found the Heiraurinilinin,
his family, or even the food supplies and water wells that kept them alive.
At the end of three years, he gave up, looted the mountains for all that had
not been hurried to the fortress at the first sign of trouble, and
retreated. Long after Hedanuf's death, but not so very long by dwarven
standards, the mountains had recovered to their previous state, and
Hedanuf's army was all but forgotten.
All of dwarven society seems broken into well-defined hierarchies. No human-told
account is clear on the number of noble ranks, or the number of military ranks,
or how or whether the two are distinguished from each other, or where fit in the
various types of workers. Workers are divided into nobly-sanctioned guilds, but
some stories attribute more power to elder guild masters than to many nobles.
Land distribution is equally complicated, as, in some way or another, twenty or
thirty dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … can have some level of control over any piece of property, with
minimal dispute. Endlessly overlapping and shared control over land, and
widely-varying levels of political power, make dwarven politics incomprehensible
to other races.
Dwarven laws are strict, and the system of law is sacred, never to be questioned. Lawfulness and goodness are one and the same. Rebellions occur only in the most extreme circumstances, such as when Heiraurinilinin Narlansorabard Dorathagorad weekly ordered dozens of the highest nobles and most respected guild masters to their deaths, over a period of years.
Dwarven families are much larger than those of humans, because so many
generations live under the same roof. The presence of women, however, is an
interesting topic. The stories of hill dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … mention women only once, in the
story of Heiraurin Fiorodalanar in the fourth century, who had over a thousand
wives. Since he and his subjects considered divorce immoral and illegal, keeping
them fed and sheltered proved to be his downfall. In the stories of mountain
dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in …, women aren't mentioned at all, and the claim is that the dwarvesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDwarves
Dwarves are short, stocky people, growing to a height of only two or three feet, who concern themselves primarily with hard, sober work, like mining and metalworking. They are said to be immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years. The dwarves keep their distance from humans; they are suspicious of foreigners. They live in mountains and hills, always underground, where they carve tunnels and caves in which to live and work. Only rulers, miners and artisans are ever mentioned in … carve
their sons from living rock. Interestingly enough, dwarven children of either
variety are not mentioned except in that context.
Dwarven language is quickly-spoken, but exceedingly complex. A few dwarven
words have been extracted from the most ancient of mythological writings. Each
word was transliterated into Sarnamplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigLanguage
Rouch
Rouch is the vernacular, or common tongue, spoken throughout Rang. Because of Rang's influence, it's also a trade language in the surrounding kingdoms.
Sarnam
Sarnam is the “old tongue,” spoken by the priests of Andritha. Most of the nobly-born are familiar with the language. and placed next to the originals. If you
look at the documents yourself, you will see that the dwarven language consists
of only fifteen letters, making words far longer than their Sarnamplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigLanguage
Rouch
Rouch is the vernacular, or common tongue, spoken throughout Rang. Because of Rang's influence, it's also a trade language in the surrounding kingdoms.
Sarnam
Sarnam is the “old tongue,” spoken by the priests of Andritha. Most of the nobly-born are familiar with the language.
transliterations. A few words have been reproduced here, to give you a rough
feel for the complexity of the language.