Dwarves

Dwarves inherited the old creed of Morlith: every craft, every task & every stone has one true form it is meant to reach, and the worker’s whole duty is to reach it. A shoddy weld or a “good enough” wall is not merely poor work, it is a small dishonesty, a thing pretending to be what it is not.

The perfect form

They apprentice for decades and measure a life by what they mastered rather than what they owned. A Dwarf will gladly spend three years on a task a Human would rush in a week, and consider the Human to have wasted the week.

Mountain & hearth

Dwarves are the backbone of Onyxian mining and stonework, though their halls reach into every mountain range.

• Mountain dwarves pursue the perfect work: stone, steel & craft
• Hill dwarves pursue the perfect hearth: a home, a table, a community done right

Friction

Others hear a Dwarf’s flat “that is done wrong” as arrogance. To the Dwarf it is plain honesty, and staying quiet while you botched the thing would have been the real insult.