Dwarves

Dwarves are very skilled craftsmen with an obsession with perfection, beauty, and efficiency. They work tirelessly to create their magnum opus each day of their lives. Their skills are unique in their accuracy, capable of crafting things that no other race can manage to match in terms of fine details and precession.

Alongside their craftsmanship, dwarves smoke something called 'grot', and are heavy drinkers. Their liquor of choice is described as "spicy" and "funky", presumably being much stronger than most human liquors. Dwarves can uniquely handle the drink pretty well, and are amused by outsiders attempts at drinking it.

### Appearance

Dwarves have a hard metallic shell decorated with intricate and flowing patterns across their bodies, sometimes inlaid with gold and/or copper. It's possible that their hearts are also metal, with strong magical veins. This implies their heart also has a pattern to draw in mana, but the dwarves themselves have not confirmed this with seriousness.

Dwarves have large, dense torso's, comparatively skinny limbs ending in insect-like claws, and no necks. They also posses hair in the form of a small tuft on the back of their main head-plate and magnificent beards, which completely cover their mouths with no exception. Their torso has grooves in it's metallic armor of exactly the right shape for their limbs to fold into, creating a compact jar-like shape. It is not entirely known what this is used for, but most assume they sleep like this.

### Population

Dwarves have a fixed number of 100, meaning only 100 of them can exist at a time. Their reproduction works like this; once a dwarf dies, a new dwarf is reincarnated with the same name as its predecessor. How this works is not yet known. (spoiler). Because of their limited population and obsession with their work, the dwarves lacked a workforce for more menial tasks, for this purpose they invented Golems, constructs powered by mana to do the work for them while they focus on more intelligent work.

### Communication

Though dwarves do posses mouths they do not have a verbal language, instead they use If inscribed pipes when smoking, when the smoke from such a pipe is blown into a creatures face, the creature will immediately understand what the dwarf means to say. Dwarves also have a special form of written language, designed to be read by touch, similar to braille. This is necessary because of the near pitch black conditions in the dwarf-only portions of their city. These writings are placed around the tunnels as sort of road signs, or on doorways to denote the use of the room. Dwarves also inscribe their own bodies with this writing to tell of their history and achievements, Dwarves who are unfamiliar with each other will often hug to feel the other's body and learn of their life.

### Markets

Dwarves host a market in their city, in an area specifically designed to be walk-able by other races. It is a dim, hazy place due to their pipe smoke. Here they set up their wares in stalls and simply sit behind their work, letting it speak for itself. This is a part of their quality-first mentality, they do not wish to yell or boast of their work, if it is so good it should convince the customer on its own.