Dwarf#
Stone doesn't care how clever you are. It cares whether you showed up yesterday, and the day before that.
Dwarves keep to Jewall in the northern reach and judge a family by what it has built. Strong, hard to kill and thick-skinned, they share the sturdiest start in Sedia with the orcs.
How they live#
You’ll rarely see a dwarf outside Jewall. The best known one who lives elsewhere is King Mishnal Stonecleaver of Tharsis. A dwarf earns their name at the forge or in the mine, and their family name records a deed the family is still expected to repeat.
An old hatred keeps most gnomes in the northern reach working dwarven mines as slaves, and neither people has forgotten it.
- Temper
- Even-tempered. In hard times they fight only whoever wronged them.
- Leaving
- They hold on to a city longer than anyone, then leave a family at a time.
- Money
- Save nearly everything they have left over.
- Crowds
- Like some room around them.
- Tongue
- Dwarvish, spoken from birth and known perfectly, besides common.
- Children
- Only with other dwarves.
What others say#
A dwarf will forgive you anything except doing the job badly.
They say the hatred is old. It isn't old. It's every morning in the mine.
Where they live#
How dwarves feel about settling in each of Sedia’s provinces. Each links to the province’s page, and Home Province covers what it takes to become a citizen of one.
- At home in
- Jewall
- Glad to live in
- TharsisNew SaellemCrecia
- Never lives in
- Narsis
Body and blood#
- Era
- Stone and blood (Age of Peace, about 21,000 BB)
- Lifespan
- Comes of age at 20 and can live to 350
- Height
- 3 to 5 feet
- Weight
- 120 to 230 pounds
- Genders
- Female (6 in 10) and male (4 in 10)
- Favored stats
- Strength and constitution (the game's race menu lists these; they don't change your scores)
Playing a dwarf#
Any race can take any class. These are the ones dwarves start closest to, with the race’s starting score in each of the class’s two stats.
Page
A page leads with constitution and backs it with strength, and a dwarf starts both at 12.
Headhunter
Strength 12 hits hard, and natural armor 15 means taking a few hits back doesn't matter much.
Hermit
Wisdom 11 is a dwarf's best score after strength and constitution, and a hermit leads with it.
The missing deed
A dwarf family’s name records a deed nobody in the family can do anymore, and the clan elders have noticed. Someone has to help them do it again before the next feast, or find out whether the founder ever did it at all.
Names#
One or two hard syllables with round vowels. If it sounds like a hammer landing, it’s dwarven. Gorbo Stonecleaver, Brom, Lohma Fireforge, Haldi Deepdelver.
