Dwarves

== Overview ==
=== Origin ===
The Dwarves are an ancient race, older than the pre-imperial Humans or High-Elves. They first spawned from The World Spring, supposedly created by the legendary gemstone Duroth'Zuhl. Initially all dwarves had charcoal black skin, similar to the volcanic rock of The World Spring. These dwarves are often called ancient dwarves or Obsidian Dwarves. Over the ages, as they spread out from their home in The World Spring their skin began to lighten, brining about the modern subraces of dwarves.
=== Spread ===
The ancient dwarves remained in their mountain holds in The World Spring and the surrounding Blackrock Hights. Only during the War of the Five did the dwarves first leave their mountains in great numbers. It was after The Endtimes, when the Old Empire rose and conquered across Excaria that the original dwarven empire of Aul-Duroth'Tahr fell and its mountain holds subsumed into the Old Empire. Now citizens of the old empire as a civilized race, dwarves spread across the old world of Anu.
=== Culture ===
Dwarven culture was largely destroyed by the Old Empire with dwarves adopting the cultures and mannerisms of the Imperials. The dwarves however are a sturdy and traditionalist bunch and a few clans and individuals kept some fragments of their ancient culture and language alive.
With the appearance of the Stormrift, the Imperial Colonies on Ferra have been cut off from the Old Empire. Some dwarves and their clans took this chance to set out and create new and proper mountain holds in the style of Aul-Duroth'Tahr, rejecting Old Imperial Culture. Such efforts have usually been ignored by the wider Imperial descendant society and most dwarves alive are still well integrated. 
== Subraces ==
=== Obsidian Dwarves ===
The Obsidian Dwarves are the first dwarves that spawned from The World Spring, created by the gemstone Duroth'Zuhl. They have charcoal black skin and their eyes glow with a faint red shine. Supposedly they were all but impervious to but the most extreme of heat and were near inexhaustible. It was these dwarves that carved the first mountain holds and founded the dwarven empire of Aul-Duroth'Tahr.
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