The Dwarven Remnant

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*A Remnant of the long collapsed Dwarven empire of ages pasted preserved by High-King Hjerouhrdinn Lawbringer*

## History

### Origin

Dwarves are a ancient race that only came out of the underground with the assurance and trust of the giant-kin, from then on the dwarves after decades of isolated-cooperation with the giants decreed the entire race as "dwarf-friends'' which is a sacred and honor bound title give at the time to no one else, this title was very sacred and guaranteed the giants a forever allies from the dwarves as to go again a "dwarf-friend" would dishonor not only themselves but there clans as well. Dwarven society worked in a clan system every dwarf belonged to a clan and through these clans placed their upbringing and role in this society of the clans all specialized in there own way but the main ones were warfare, mining, architecture and engineering, exploration, and diplomacy with many other minor or unknown ones. The dwarves are ruled by a high king chosen by a Albazar which similar to that of a human moot where different lords of holds and influential clan leaders choose a new high king between a number of candidates that does not ever exceed 4. Many centuries have past since the fall of there underground empire the only know remaining dwarves are now a remnant of that once great empire , as such circumstance the only known high officials is the high-king and total of 4 dwarven clans, time will tell if more clans will reveal themselves or be created by the high-king, but right now all that is to be said of this ancient and mysterious race

### The Fall

The Fall of the Dwarven empire was as unexpected as it was fast a full 4 years before the official point of collapse of this staggery powerful and larger empire with so much mystery as to why has caused a myriad of scholars confusion and speculation through out the ages, but all dwarf-kind can feel and see the effects to this day the destruction brought about the fall and small population that left this race.

### The Hold out

The Dwarven remnant's old holds and cities were the upper most holds of the entire old empire and were mostly spared because of this fact, with these holds mostly intact and the fleeing of a small amount of ancestors who were fairly high officials of the old empire the remnants founding and establishment against the tides of mysteries deep bellow allowed for a great strength and unity. With the Establishment of the remnant a line of defense quickly was made to defend the last hold out of dwarf-kind and only through the help of the great warrior ancestor Dak in the great city of Vesturhildrum the only link between the holds of the remnant and the horrible horrors deep-bellow by causing a huge cave-in destroying the city, enemies. and unfortunately himself to seal away the dark tides away for eternity behind great stone and bedrock.

### First Meeting

The First Meeting between the dwarves and the giant-kin

## Culture

### Grudges

Dwarves are a long-lived race so having long memories are a trait they have too, Grudges are the important of those memories in a way that could never be forget or forgiven to a dwarf unless appeased. Grudges are very simple in that they are offenses to a dwarf that are then recorded in their own book of grudges, depending on the offense is how valuable the appeasement must be to correct it, this could be anything from gifts to the blood of said offender not cleansing there grudge can cause scrutiny from many dwarves especially if its a clan grudge which will cause any dwarf belonging to that clan to be hostile or down right aggressive toward this offender. Dwarves as a whole also have something called the Great book of grudges which is one the high-king will write in for the dwarven race as a whole which could go as far as all out war to strike a grudge in this book out.