Gold dwarf

=Gold Dwarf=

The Gold dwarves live north of their cousins,the badlanders A.K.A. the Iron dwarves, their home is cold and rocky, forming a race that is tough and highly resistant to the elements. Gold dwarves, also known as  hill dwarves[1] , are the aloof, confident and sometimes proud subrace of  dwarves  that predominantly come from the Karnigan. They are known to be particularly stalwart warriors and shrewd traders. Gold dwarves are often trained specifically to battle the horrendous Ogres   that are known to come from the W astes

Nations
Karnigan - A cold northern region, Karnigan is filled with snowy plateaus and cliffs, and sprawling evergreen forests. Unlike the Derians, the Northern Dwarves live a comfortable existence, deep in the bowels of the earth in vast fortress mining and digging out the valuables on the world

History
The Dwarves were created early in Ardus' history; made by Khalin when the Elves rebelled. They were created to be a strong and hardy race who loved their god of strength, and delighted in the earth as he did. The Dwarves were one race for much of their early centuries, but split into two nations during the Sundering. One group stayed in the temperate mountain areas of Aravin, thought to be their birthplace. The other group moved north to the frigid steppes. This latter group became known as the Northern dwarves.

The history of all dwarves is marked with conflict between the Elder, and with many of the lesser races who constantly infringe upon their home. The hatred of the Elder and the dwarves for each other goes back millennia, and is deeply rooted in the thought of both races.

It is unknown precisely when or why the northerners broke off from their mountain home to settle a land yet more hostile than the one from which they came. Many theories exist, but all that is known for certain is that the northerners have developed their own culture. Hunters and gatherers still by necessity, they have nonetheless built settlements, especially along rivers and frozen lakes. True to their love of the earth, these settlements are built from hills and cliffs, or from gigantic snow-caves, some of which are legendary sights.

Appearance
 Gold dwarves are stout, tough individuals like their shield dwarven brethren but are less off-putting and gruff in nature. Conversely, gold dwarves are often less agile then other dwarves  The average gold dwarf is about four feet tall and as heavy as a full-grown human, making them somewhat squatter than the more common Badlanders. Gold dwarves are also distinguishable by their light brown or tanned skin, significantly darker than that of most dwarves, and their brown or hazel eyes. Gold dwarves have black, gray, or brown hair, which fade to light gray over time. Gold dwarf males and some females can grow beard, which are carefully groomed and grown to great lengths

Personality
Northern dwarves are more reserved and temperate in their moods than their cousins from the Badlands. Northerners still enjoy a stiff drink and the company of their own kind, and they are especially partial to song. Northerners, however, do tend to have more of a respect for the gods, and the deeper matters of life. They are more inclined to rite, ritual, and prayer; and more likely to take oaths or abide by codes of honor. While few northerners will become scholars, almost all would respect and befriend a scholar. They are ambitious, but they are less likely than the badlanders to pursue their ambition with extremes of passion and recklessness.

Northerners are fierce fighters, and are very adept at survival in extreme circumstances, turning their environment from foe to friend with ease. For this reason, they are mostly friendly with both the Wilder elves and Derians, whom they can respect. Northerners are also extremely loyal to those they call friends.

Customs and Religions


CultureEdit
Humans who wander into the gold dwarven strongholds may be surprised to find a people far more confident and secure in their future than most dwarves. Whereas the Iron dwarves suffered serious setbacks during their history, the gold dwarves have stood firm against the challenges thrown against them for the most part with the excpetion of a few instances and so have few doubts about their place in the world. As a result, gold dwarves can come off as haughty and almost Elf-like in their pride, believing themselves culturally superior to all other races and lacking the fatalistic pessimism of their Iron dwarven cousins.

Like all of the Dwarven kin, the Gold Dwarves have a deep respect for their creator, Khalin, god of strength and endurance. They retain knowledge of him, and share many ancient hymns of Khalin’s praise with the badlanders. Additionally, the northerners still love the earth on which they walk, and respect it, though more in the way the wilder  do. They make their homes from it and make their living from it.

 Gold Dwarves  also reverence Mael and Tsun, the storm brothers, whom they believe bring the snows to the land. Brief prayers to the brothers are often said in preparation for a long journey or on a hunt. Malaraes, too, garners some respect among them in their ale halls. The Wilder have also had an influence on them, teaching them of Shareia’s ways of respect for the land and for living things. As law and order is important to the northerners in their religions, Kysor-Myr also holds their respect.

Mages are almost non-existent among the northern dwarves. Clerics and paladins are common. The use of Spectra based in prayer and devotion to Khalin and other gods is the source of most magic on the frozen steppes. Blessings of strength, healing, good fortune, and the rebuke of evil things are common powers for clerics.



Art and leisure
Gold dwarves are a deeply materialistic race who believe that the resources of the natural world exist only to serve the purpose of conscious beings. To a gold dwarf, there is no greater purpose than to fashion the minerals of the earth into things of beauty.Gold dwarf guilds take great care in their craftsmanship, often spending centuries to perfect their work and mark it distinctively as their own, a practice which is carried down to even the most simple tools, marking such items with detailed runes and carefully shaped flairs.

Gold dwarf warriors employ a large number of finely crafted weapons and armor, often enchanted with runes or prayers. Most commonly, dwarves employ weapons that can also be used as tools, such as axes, picks, or hammers, alongside more specialized weapons like urgroshes. Some unique items of note crafted by gold dwarves are mobile braces, rope climbers, or drogue wings used for riding hippogriffs.

<p style="line-height:21px;">Gold dwarves enjoy the company of small lizards as pets such as the spitting crawler or shocker lizard. Deep rothé are frequently kept as livestock as well, alongside pack lizards and mules as beasts of burden, gold dwarf mules often bred specially from Lhesperan or Meth horses. For mounts, gold dwarves usually use riding lizards, war ponies, or, more rarely, hippogriffs.

<p style="line-height:21px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Magic_and_religion" style="font-size:14px;">Magic and religion

Unlike most dwarven peoples, the gold dwarves are not particularly superstitious about magic and while still cautious in its use, are no more so than any wise other mage and gold dwarves have even created a number of spells unique to them. In part, gold dwarves are open to magic because of their heavy used of enchanted arms and weaponry, but primarily this tolerance comes from the age of gold dwarven civilization, which through sheer longevity has given rise to several magical traditions.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RoF-p13_7-0">[8]

Divine spellcasters remain more common among the gold dwarves, however,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RoF-p12_8-0">[9]  though gold dwarves are less fervent in their beliefs than the openly devout shield dwarves. Gold dwarves most commonly favor the worship of   Khalin  in part due once again to the age of the gold dwarf civilization, which stretches back to when many of the  Khalins instructions  had  become widely known. While the gold dwarves are not particularly devout,  clerics  of  Khalin  hold great prestige within gold dwarf society.

The most sacred site in gold dwarf civilization is the city of Thullurn, where the regional church of  Khalin  is centered. There,  Khalin  s clerics sponsors a rich culture of manufacturing and craftsmanship as well as serving as the city's executive and judiciary branches of government

Psychology

<p style="font-size:13px;line-height:21px;">Gold dwarves are both materialistic and ritualistic, valuing themselves and others by what they possess and by the reputation of their family. Gold dwarves are deeply conservative, rooting their values and beliefs in traditions that have survived for millennia even as the world changed around them. From infancy, gold dwarves are taught that their life is determined by tradition, from what their profession shall be to who they shall marry. Gold dwarves who lack faith in the old ways or who go so far as to challenge cultural taboos are seen as dangerous deviants unworthy of friendship or trust by the majority of gold dwarves, creating an enormous social pressure to conform.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RoF-p12_8-1">[9]

<p style="font-size:13px;line-height:21px;">In part because of their conservatism and staunch belief in their own cultural superiority, gold dwarves rarely venture outside of their homelands. The Thunder Blessing was the first event in a long while to push the race out of their conformity, forcing young dwarves to seek their fortunes outside of an overcrowded Deep Realm. Other than such demographic pressures, the only motive for adventuring deemed rational to the average gold dwarf is the desire to seek out their fortune in unclaimed lands, perhaps to build a stronghold of their own.

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