Lake Dweorhs

The Lake Dweorhs, those who braved the deeps of water, to learn the mysteries of loch, fjord, and sea. These Dweorhs wondered, if in the depths of their greatest fear, held treasures that were hidden away from their picks, shovels, hammers and chisels. Becoming proficient in the crafting of ship, submersibles, diving bubbles, and diving suits. These Dweorhs are by no means thin, but carry considerably less bulk than their landlocked cousins. Shaving their scalps and trimming their beards to improve visibility within dive helmets, they are the least hairy of their kin. Shortest of the Dweorhs, these challengers of the gods, allow their bodies to be assaulted by both the will and wind of Deumael and the crushing hatred of Marisdu

## History

The Lake Dweorhs are an unusual tribe of Dweorhs. They completely ignore the general proscription against going near water, especially if it is deeper than a Dweorh is tall, while lying on his back. Dweorhs are cursed with the buoyancy of a rock dropped from a great height, by the God Elemental Marisdu. The Aquars, of the Aethers, saw some Dweorhs, who were reluctant to leave the surface of Orenda after they saw the element Water covering over some of the areas that they had carved out for Duesterra and Imagodai. The Aquars encouraged these reluctant, inquisitive individuals to stay on the surface, discover what Marisdu had hidden, and effectively forbidden the Dweorhs from ever seeing. The now self-titled "Lake Dweorhs " began an extended effort to create and invent methods of surviving beneath the surface of water. There inventions did not always work and many a Lake Dweorh can point to a section of the beach where this or that relative eventually washed up upon or was dragged ashore by his co-conspirators in aquatic adventures.

Eventually the Lake Dweorhs discovered and created a multitude of "deep water" diving techniques and equipment. They now are more likely to be found in one of their sub-aquatic farms or mining endeavors or making preparations to go even deeper into the depth that they believe have been unforgivingly been denied. The Lake Dweorhs are seen as not only one of the strangest of the Dweorhs subraces, but also the most sacrilegious. The Lake Dweorhs have gone against not one, but two proscriptions that their cousins do not dare break; Entering water deeper than they are tall, while lying down and Cutting off or trimming of their hair and beards. While some Dweorhs could possibly see the argument of breaking the first, as they are being denied a privilege that no other race is denied, the second is what gives the Lake Dweorhs' cousins the most pause. The hair and beards of the Dweorhs are an embraced gift of the God Elementals, to be cherished, nurtured, and even flaunted. The Lake Dweorhs have also seen things that no other non-human race has seen, outside of the Sauropsidans, and even they have not gone as deep into the cerulean depths as the Lake Dweorhs. The other races believe that the blatant heresy and seeing such unimaginable mysteries has turned the Lake Dweorhs overly strange, if not almost evil, compared to the other Dweorhs. It has certainly caused a certain amount of paranoia within the race, as well as a more heavily developed covetousness for treasure than other Dweorhs. Still the captains of many ships pride themselves on having their vessels partially or fully crewed by Lake Dweorhs or the craft itself crafted and constructed by Lake Dweorh shipwrights.