Dwarf

Dwarves are predominantly subterranean, troglodytic hume creatures. They live in natural caves or their own tunnels, with various levels of adaptation to full sunlight and the surface world.
==Diet==
There are number of things edible in the caverns of the world and dwarves utilize every last one of them. Examples include:
*Mushrooms
**farmed endemically, incl. bioluminescent
*Bats
*Cave Fish
*Cave Shrimp
*Cave Crickets
*Semi-Aquatic Transparent Worms
*Large Cave Worms
*Earthworms (from soil / ceiling-"sky" ['soft stuff above us'])
*Giant Spiders (lunged)
*Cave Turtles
*Giant Naked Mole Rats
*Giant Mole Creatures
*Moles
*Shrews
*Lichen
*Other cave insects, mammals, fish, maybe reptiles
*Periodic
**Saurians
**Thurse Eggs, Orc Pudding, Troll Roe
In addition to these, dwarves have picked up foods from surface diets and will sometimes hunt above ground or farm root vegetables, usu. in the "ceiling" but sometimes in transplanted pits of soil brought down to delvings.
==Kins (Varieties)==
*Full-Surface Adapted
**Northern Odenna
**Southern Odenna
**Elladoren (sun-adapted)
**Taicran
**Nysian
*Mostly Surface Adapted (Trogloxenic)
*Troglodytic
*Troglodytic Hotspot Adapted
*Pale, Dark Adapated (Troglophilic)
*Dark + Hotspot Adapted
*Duergar (Troglobitic subspecies)
==Warfare==
Dwarves fight in tight, heavily armored packs, a strategy they developed due to their shortened reach, esp. against taller kins. They favor heavy armor and halberds with pronounced ax heads. Alternatively they bear shields (which easily cover their shorter bodies) and hammers for mashing above or alongside the shield. Many shields have a curve on the right-handed side to allow for the swing of the hammer. Dwarves love hefty axes though when going against opponents less armored than their own folk and smaller axes can act as reserve weapons. When using smaller shields or relying solely on armor, dwarves employ falchions and war knives.
At range, dwarves fashion short recurve bows with a draw weight far greater than human or elven bows, making them out of spring steel or a comparable alloy, but due to their strength and crafty inclinations, they favor crossbows (also with a spring steel bow). Working with gnomes, they have developed fine, intricate and even advancely simplified crossbows to achieve quicker firing rates in battle.
==Skara==
Dwarves have grims and fire-eyed greyhounds. The duergars even have hellhounds.
==Sources==
https://dwarrowscholar.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/crispy-fried-batwing-anyone/
Category:Kins
Category:Dwarves
Category:Earth
Category:Humes
Category:Odenna