Dweorg

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Short and stocky, around 4' tall on average. Muscular but somehow nimble. Ears and nose are enlarged, with the ears laying flat aside the skull. Hairless except for ornate facial hair. Skin tones blend into rock and earth.

~ Lowlight vision.
~ Can safely breath in low oxygen environments and are unaffected by most noxious fumes.

While the dweorg spend much of their time underground, they build their homes close to the surface on the slopes of mountains and rocky hills. They are live together in large multi-family enclaves, called septs, named for the tradition of being formed from seven noble families. The head family occupies the central fortress, emerging from the highest point on the slope. While lower ranked families spread downward, first the families in charge of the defense of the sept, occupying the defensive walls and towers. Then the craftsman dwellings, close to the surface so the forges can breathe. Finally the miners and merchants, with the merchants living in stone houses at the bottom of the slope, easily accessed by travelers from other septs and mortal kin.

Being the Children of Dvergr, they have inherited her lust for all things gold and glittering. Dweorg society reflects this, with the amassing of wealth being the most assured way of climbing the ranks in the sept. It is rumored that piles of treasure and precious metals mined from deep in the mountains can be found in the vaults of each fortress.

Troll

The corrupted trolls live both deeper underground than dweorg and in inhospitable places where foothills and valleys give way to bogs, marshes, and flooded forests. They share the dweorg desire for gold, but it is far more intense, and overwhelming greed that drives them to any vile act to procure or protect their treasures. They despise their uncorrupted cousins, angry that their claws make them too clumsy to craft wonderful treasures so skillfully. Slightly larger than the average dweorg, trolls are mostly hairless, instead covered in gray leathery hides, mottled with patches of stonelike scales. Their hands and feet ending in wicked talons, and large snaggletooth fangs jut from their overwide mouths.