Dwarf

Dwarves were a common race in Restaera. They usually dwelled in either human cities or in the cave cities of several mountain ranges. 
== Societies ==
Despite being seen as unfriendly lonely people, dwarves are rarely seen alone. 
=== City Dwellers ===
If they live in cities, dwarves have most of the time adopted the other people's way of living. They live in normal houses and are welcome in most of the offered jobs. Some of them marry humans, elves or fae, but it is more socially accepted for a dwarf to marry another dwarf.
=== Mountain Dwellers ===
Most of the dwarves living on Restaera live in separate communities who were established in networks of natural and man-made caves centuries before Starbirth. Except from the dwarves living near the High Temple of Aura, most of them have never seen another species in their long lives. 
== Customs ==
=== Hair ===
Dwarves held their hair in a very special place. They had customs and traditions over their hair, and everything they did with it had meaning. 
==== Youth ====
From their birth to around their fiftieth birthday, young dwarves would usually wear their hair either down or up in a ponytail. They wouldn't braid it, and, unless they'd suffered a loss, wouldn't cut it either. 
Most of the younglings' beard hadn't come up at this point, so they usually had a little fuzz on the cheeks, but didn't pay it much impression.
==== Adulthood ====
For as long as their hair wouldn't turn grey, dwarves would wear their hair in several types of braids. It was deemed improper to wear long hair down at this age. If unmarried, their hair could grow impressively long, and it was seen as bad luck to not take care of it by braiding it. Some of them have beads in their hair or beard, wich could signify either a victory in battle, or more simple things as an academic success or the birth of a child. 
==== Old Age ====
When their hair start to turn gray, dwarves start to wear their hair up. If short, they'd usually emulate longer hair by braiding horse hair, ribbons or wool into their short hair. 
==== Reasons to Cut their Hair ====
A dwarf would cut their hair after marriage as a sign of commitment, or also after a defeat in battle. If they'd lost someone important in their lives, they'd also cut their hair as a sign of struggle.