Advantages:

• Half cost for the Armor Smith skill (1.5 Build Points)
  
• Half cost for the Weapon Smith skill
  
• Can purchase the Dwarven Resist skill

Disadvantages:

• Cannot learn Magic until Level 5
  
• +1 Build Cost Per Rank of Magic
  
• Can only learn one Warlock skill every other level starting at Level 10
  
• Cannot learn Sorcery until Level 10
  
• Cannot learn Spell Singing skills until Level 5
  

Costume and Roleplaying Requirements:
The player must wear a costume brown or red beard, or beard braids with a players real beard, if they are playing a male character –or – two long brown or red braids of hair if they are playing a female character.

Native Literacy : Dwarven

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 The work ethic of these fabled craftsmen is only rivaled by the firm, stubborn, analytical way in which they approach almost all aspects of their lives.

The finest weapons and armor are produced in the workshops and forges of these industrious people.
Often blunt, curt, and truthful Hill Dwarves will share their carefully considered opinion with any who ask…and many who don’t!

Hill Dwarves work alongside their mountain brethren to maintain the Dwarven Kigdoms, and while they will farm and tend herds as needed, the coming of the Hauflin to their lands has provided even more free time for crafting much to the happiness of all.

A little zenophobic, often with good reason, outsiders wishing to have any dealings with the Dwarves have always faced an uphill battle. Pun intended.

The Dwarven Kingdoms are all loosely aligned with each other; trade, craftsman, and adventurers flow freely between them all.

These hirsute peoples of the hills and mountains, the Dwarves of Telomir dwell almost entirely in, and under, the mountains and hills of all the known lands.
Fierce in battle and even more passionate in their creations these people seek to live their lives to the fullest, and often succeed.

All Dwarves are basically the same folk, but there are some noticeable differences between the Mountain and Hill Dwarves.

Advantages

• +1 Strength Bonus, Non-Combinable
• +2 Body Points for the first three Levels (+6 Body Points Total)
• Can purchase the Dwarven Resist skill (may start game with this skill)

Disadvantages

• Cannot learn Magic until Level 5.
• +1 Build Cost Per Rank of Magic
• Can only learn one Warlock skill every other Level starting at Level 10
• Cannot learn Sorcery until Level 10
  
• Cannot learn Spell Singing skills until Level 5 

Costume and Roleplaying Requirements:

The player must wear a costume black beard, or beard braids with a players real beard, if they are playing a male character –or – two long black braids of hair if they are playing a female character.

Native Literacy: Dwarven

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Residing in the immense Jodok Mountains, these Dwarves are happiest when delving into the dark places of the world, these passionate people make up for the coldness of their surroundings with heat of their passions.

Nothing makes a Mountain Dwarf happier than putting everything they have into everything they do. They laugh until they cry, they fight until you die, and they sleep like the dead.
This gusto for life finds no better outlet than in battle; and Mountain Dwarves defend what is theirs with a tenacity and passion that makes them firm allies or fearsome foes…. your choice.
Their personalities are often gruff and blunt, and although they are often honest and reliable theses traits can be lost on the easily offended.

Few Mountain Dwarves feel the call to serve Nature, but the forces of The Light and Darkness recruit equally from these people.

Advantages

• Reduced cost for the Rogue Basic Career Skill List (-5 Build Points)
• Reduced cost for all Craftsman skills (-1 Build Point each)
• +1 Damage Bonus with all thrown weapons and Small Weapon skill

Disadvantages

• -2 Body Points at Level 1
• Double cost for the Stamina skill (8 Build Points)
• Increased cost for the Warrior Basic Career Skill List (+5 Build Points)
• Without a +1 Continuous Strength Bonus, cannot use or learn the following weapons: Pole-Arms, 2-Handed Weapons, Bastard Weapons, including Spears, Large Shields

Costume and Roleplaying Requirements:
The player must wear fur on the tops of their feet and mutton chops for males and curly cues in front of ears for females.

Native Literacy: Common

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Finally driven out & forced to flee from their lands by The Dreadwood in 309 P.I., these Merry folk used to populate much of the foothills and valleys below Mt. Erden, just north of Fimbria.
Now, those Haulflin refugees that remain dwell with the Dwarves in the foothills of the Jodok Mountains.

A small population of Haulflin also remain along the Fimbrian border to their old lands. They stay and fight to reclaim their homelands.

Hauflins are merry folk who, though slight of stature, are crafty and make skilled artisans.
The Hauflins’ love of good food and drink is renowned and indeed these people are often found in a tavern indulging their desires. Hauflins make poor warriors and usually depend on their cleverness and stealth to protect them.

Hauflins can be found almost anywhere there are Dwarves;and life is generally good there.
Some Hauflin live up to their hedonistic reputation and spend a great deal of their time eating and drinking ales and wines and singing and dancing. Others live a simple life of farming and tending to their small herds of animals, just trying to be a happy as possible in their new homes.

Hauflin produce a vast surplus of food but seldom see it that way and eat most of it.
Sometimes however, they do sell food for goods and services needed by the community as a whole. There are many, many craftsman among the Halflings and their goods are sought after by many outsiders. While their goods and surplus of food has made them a target in the past for raiders, their new home in Valoria affords them a level of security they have not been used to in past generations.

Hauflin who do not farm or craft can be found adventuring around the world and have a reputation for being exceptional rouges getting into all kinds of places they were not meant to go.

Some Hauflin do take up the Arcane skills but few if any become outright warriors, though there have been some to be sure.
Most Hauflin are too busy being happy to worry about matters of faith and few pursue such things. However, some have chosen to follow a Path and take up that fight for one of the world’s powers.