Dwarves



Dwarves are race of hearty, strong, and stern people. The dwarves of today are the proud decendants of one of the earliest empires of the continents of Oalestlen and Evestrin. However, over time the empire fractured and split. Internal disagreement weakened the once united people. A once powerful empire became three much weaker empires, which then devolved into kingdoms compsed of fractured principalities.

As the ages passed, the empires and kingdoms of the dwarves retreated north, to the highly defensible mountainous pennisulals of the two continents. There, the dwarves for the most part shut their doors to the outside world, and for ages held and maintained their race, socities, and cultures away from the eyes of most of the world's other peoples.

With the awakening of the Dark One, and the subsequent 100 years of pain, the dwarves were forced from their moutain homes, and joined in the subsequent wars to bring stability to the world. The final cataclysm finally ended the hundred years, but at a cost of many lives and much land.

Uerguin, the earthen father, and diety of both the dwarves and gnomes, has disappered, and is belieed trapped somewhere in the void left when the Dark One distroyed himself by devouring Y'veliet Rae, the goddess of Spring and mother diety of the elves.

Dwarven Kingdoms
There are three Dwarven Kingdoms, each composed of several principalities.

The Wesernmost Kingdom, Grahn Hargor, stradles the northern pennisula of the continent of Oalestlen. The dwarves here are well versed in the history and majics of their ancestors. They are also heavilt allied with the gnome population of the same continent.

The Central Kingdom, Grahn Vezdizmal, lies in the northwest pennisula or the Evestrin Continent. The dwarves of Vezdizmal are the most likely to be seen outside of their kingdom, and traditionally member of this kingdom set up trade with the human populations to the south.

The Easernmost Kingdom, Grahn Oblidor, is the most isolated of the three. It is in the north east peninsula of the Evestrin Continent, and is borderd to the south by the Orclunds and to the east and south east by the Tribelands of the Hobgoblins. The wars with these two lands have been many, and the Oblidor have a practice of enslaving captured populations of those they war with. This has recently led to downfall of several of the Grahn's principalities, due to a weakened state and succssful uprisings.