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Dwarves is a Race in Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness. Races determine many aspects of a character, from their appearance, behavior, down to their innate capabilities, attributes, and many more. Races in Black Geyser are chosen during Character Creation and each choice grants unique Stats & Attributes that are exclusive to a certain race, as well as Class specialization/s.
The Devil-god Rothgor was angry over the creation of the elves and the threat they represented to his plans to throw the world into darkness. He sent a succubus to pregnant elven women in an effort to steal the essence that lie within their wombs. The Elven mothers despaired, but the Green Goddess told her daughters to seek the first waters of Yerengal. They did so, but were trapped in a stone cavern when Rothgor sent demons to destory them.
The children survived the attack, but their mothers died. Men in the mountains found the babes and raised them as their own, but the Elven progeny were stunted and hairy. The children (now known as Dwarves) grew and prospered, sharing their love of from their Elven parents, but began to exhibit a preference for the depths of the world. Dwarves are very materialistic but have a strong connection to clan and family. They are stout and powerfully built, well-suited to exploiting the natural tunnels that form deep in the ground.
Dwarves Information
Stats
- Cannot be Necromancer
- Cannot be Wintermage
- Cannot be Spellweaver
- Cannot be Convoker
- Cannot be Druid
- Cannot be Templar
- Cannot be Ranger
- Cannot be Swindler
- Can wield War Clubs and Hammers regardless of the Class
Dwarves Attributes
- +1 to maximum Physique
- -2 to maximum Charisma
- -1 to maximum Supernatural
- +15% Damage with War Clubs and Hammers
- +12% Damage with Battle Axes
- +9% Damage with Slings and Fustibals
Dwarves Lore
When Rothgor the devil-god learned of the Green Mother’s special blessing of the eleven tribes of man, he flew into a rage. Like Zornilsa, the devil-god had worked diligently to influence man with recently introduced emotions of fear and hate. The new tribes of elves were a harmonizing force on Yerengal and threatened to undo all of the dark god’s efforts. An interference the dark god would not sit quietly and allow to happen.
Rothgor devised a heinous plan to turn the Green Mother’s own blessing against Yerengal. The devil-god summoned forth succubus demons from his realm of darkness and sent them to visit the eleven tribes. Once there, the female demons took the guise of benevolent, elderly midwives. The demonic imposters gained the trust of all the pregnant women of the tribes. On the night of no moon, each succubus demon crept out under the cover of darkness in the form of intangible shadow. They fell upon the sleeping elven mothers to be and in silence and stealth performed a dark, unnatural ritual. The demon womens’ shadows grew large in their abdomens as they stole the very essence of their unborn victims while they slept and became pregnant with something unknown. Once the ritual was complete, the succubus flew back to Rothgor’s domain with haste and showed their bulging bellies.
But in their haste Rothgor’s minions did not realize the unborn children were already apart of Yerengal and that the Green Mother sees more clearly in the world of dreams than any other. Immediately realizing what happened, Tilindia spoke to each and every elven mother in her dreams. She warned the women that darkness had struck out against them and only by drinking from the first water of Yerengal, could their children’s lives be spared.
The first water of Yerengal was an underground pool of water, said to have been the first waters to appear on Yerengal. Immediately, the cursed pregnant women set off in a caravan from eleven corners of the world. For sake of speed, the mothers traveled with a small entourage of guard and in a few days travel came to the mountain which held the first water. The mothers grew weak and sick in their travels as their unnatural children grew closer to entering the world.
The mountain was home to a tribe of humans known for the selfish, self centered ways and obsession over material things, in particular gold and gemstones. When the elven caravan sought passage, the human tribe surrounded them. Greatly outnumbering the elves, the humans demanded payment in order to pass under the mountain. The elves offered what little valuables they had, but the humans did not accept. Only after spotting one of the elves finely crafted blades, the likes of which were not seen in human lands, the men of the mountain offered to take their blades in trade for passage.
The desperate elves reluctantly accepted and entered the mountainous underground unarmed.
When the elves reached the underground water way, the women drank of the mythical water and the elvish priests blessed them according to the Green Mother’s direction. The women felt the dark unnatural nature of their carrying wash away and their health return to them.
At the same time, in Rothgor’s domain the succubus demons fell to the floor in agony. Immediately the demon creatures gave birth to jagged, heavy stones. Rothgor was besides himself with fury. He summoned forth his guard of fire demons and sent them to the first water of Yerengal. The unarmed elves could do nothing. The demons struck them down one by one and a massacre began to take shape.
By chance or fate, one of the elven guards rushed the pregnant mothers across a narrow gap of the first water and into a large cavern. The guard used all his strength to dislodge a large boulder at the entrance to the cave. The boulder and a hundred others came crashing down killing the guard and sealing the mothers within the chamber.
After the fire demons killed the elven guards, they rushed towards the chamber containing the female elves, but found no matter how hard they tried, they could not pass over the first water. Content that the women would die alone, sealed off in the cavern, the demons returned to Rothgor’s realm.
The female elves had no choice but to endure. Surviving on wild cavern fungus, small creatures and small amounts of runoff from the first water, the eleven women survived long enough to give birth. The women were both overjoyed and horrified as the children were born healthy, but their bodies were unnaturally squat, board and quite hairy.
The elven mothers honored their children, feeding them before themselves. Over time, the mothers began to die of starvation. Some say the men of the mountain heard the cries of the babies. Others say they heard the song of the last elven mother, but however the men of the mountain came to find the children, the fact of the matter is that they did.
The site of the mother’s sacrifice and the helpless newborns rekindled something deep in the hearts of the mountain men. They were not their children and they were unlike them in almost every respect. But Alnarius had brought them together and through love and compassion, the mountain men raised the dwarves as they would become known as their own.
The dwarves thrived as they grew, well suited to both the mountainous terrain and the men’s self centered way of life and value of material goods. Something left over from Rothgor’s attempted curse, left the dwarves full of vanity and materialistic virtues.
While the tribe of mountain men eventually died off, their adopted children continued to flourish. They dug deeper into the mountains and spread throughout Yerengal becoming master craftsmen, builders and smiths of coin.
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