Creating a History (CBD)

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The creation text of Marak is one of many possible backgrounds for a dwarf campaign. It revealed how a stronghold of dwarves might view the world and their place in it. You could use this as part of your campaign background or develop your own myth cycle. The myths may be accepted by all dwarves, or may only be held by one stronghold or subrace. The creation myth may be believed as truth by all dwarves, but with dissension among elements of related history, such as the names of the heroes or the precise role of the gods.
In the first creation myth all dwarves began life together and later migrated to new strongholds. They could trace their lineage back to the First Dwarves, their common ancestors. Since all of them came from common stock, subrace variations had to be explained.
As an alternative, after they were created, they could have been placed by the gods in caverns around the world. This would permit them to live in any place or situation, without having to make up stories about how they spread across the world. They could live beneath tropical islands, under ice caps, or steamy jungles, as well as the more temperate hilly and mountain country. They may have been isolated from others and their developments and subsequent histories may have diverged in countless ways. In such cases, you will need to decide how these dwarves would differ from the more traditional hill dwarves of the Player's Handbook and Monstrous Compendium Appendix. Do they constitute definitive subraces of dwarves, with marked differences in appearance and outlook, or are they just hill dwarves living in unusual places?
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