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== About == | == About == | ||
Standing perhaps chest high to most humans, the stubborn dwarfs feel most comfortable in the dark underground rather than beneath the open sky. Their great beards are flecked with dust from their mines and wet with ale, spilled from shaking with laughter at the notion of living above ground. Thus, it is unsurprising that they claim descent from the goddess of those places. The story goes that the goddess of the underworld wept, for she would never have children. Those tears dripped through the caverns of the world and, over the ages, solidified into the first dwarf. | Standing perhaps chest high to most humans, the stubborn dwarfs feel most comfortable in the dark underground rather than beneath the open sky. Their great beards are flecked with dust from their mines and wet with ale, spilled from shaking with laughter at the notion of living above ground. Thus, it is unsurprising that they claim descent from the goddess of those places. The story goes that the goddess of the underworld wept, for she would never have children. Those tears dripped through the caverns of the world and, over the ages, solidified into the first dwarf. [[File:Mantica commander-v2.jpg|frameless|right]] | ||
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Unfortunately for Basilea, a dwarf keeps his promises. Though the [[elves]] may have the longest lives, the dwarfs have the longest memories. They will call upon contracts and alliances made a thousand years ago and expect them to be honoured. To a dwarf an oath is an oath, whether made drunk or sober. | Unfortunately for Basilea, a dwarf keeps his promises. Though the [[elves]] may have the longest lives, the dwarfs have the longest memories. They will call upon contracts and alliances made a thousand years ago and expect them to be honoured. To a dwarf an oath is an oath, whether made drunk or sober. | ||
Thankfully, not all dwarfs follow King Golloch. Under the [[Halpi Mountains]] lies the dwarfen Freeholds, who owe no allegiance to Abercarr. The [[Free Dwarfs|Free]] and Imperial dwarfs only communicate over the Great Cataract, a vast waterfall that can only be cross via ferries pulled by a great chain. They meet at [[Culloch Mor]], a tree-cloaked rock with an altar of unknown origin at the centre of the falls. Other than this one neutral ground, the two groups keep away from each other. The [[Free Dwarfs]] have enough to trouble them in the north with the Abyss and their corrupted brethren. Still they worry that when Golloch tires of his feud with the Basileans, he will turn his hungry eye northward. For in a world where nations have splintered and fallen to infighting, the Abercarri Empire is on the rise. | |||
Imperial Dwarfs is another term for the [[Dwarfs]] of the [[Golloch Empire]], separate from the [[Free Dwarfs]], both of these factions fight against the Fallen Ones, the [[Abyssal Dwarfs]]. | Imperial Dwarfs is another term for the [[Dwarfs]] of the [[Golloch Empire]], separate from the [[Free Dwarfs]], both of these factions fight against the Fallen Ones, the [[Abyssal Dwarfs]]. | ||
