The race of stone- and metalworking, the race of underground miners.
Population size: unknown, presumed extinct
Life span: 150
Average threat scale: Lower Wolf
Description
The dwarves were a race famed for their stone- and metalworking skills, as well as their prolific spirit for carving great buildings and cities out of the rocky mountains of old.
While the dwarves were physically strong and handy, they lacked the requirements for using magic.
The great dwarven cities were destroyed by the ancient dragons, and with no way of escaping the mountains, their great halls turned into their tombs.
History
The dwarves were a hardy race right from the start, taking a long time to trust anyone but themselves. When humanity started showing their true nature, the dwarves reacted with hostility towards them, distancing themselves from humanity as a race.
The dwarves locked themselves in their great underground cities, not trusting humanity, eventually even going to war with them.
The dwarves still trusted the other races, trading exclusively with them. Once the other races numbers diminished, so did the dwarves. There were only eight great cities left before the chaos times, only four afterwards.
The chaos times had awoken the great ancient dragons, and so the hardy dwarf cities fell one after another, entombing the dwarves in their great underground cities. The final bastion of hope for the dwarves was ultimately destroyed by the Black Dragon of the North, the greatest calamity that the world had seen.
Their solitary nature, which had been their strength for thousands of years, had also become their downfall. Had they spread out and joined the other empires, they may have survived.
Other Information
There are rumors of a colony of dwarves still being alive, but these rumors are as good as urban myths.
Examples
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The World Stones 