Dweorg the Glittering-Beards

Short stout folk march in single file grimly into the mines below, they a people of stone, metal and fire in a very literal sense. Their flesh is like the rock their hair as if woven from precious metals and fire burns from with in their very being. They take little notice of you only seeming to care about their tireless work as they hue and dig the earth and stone.

Culture

Art & Architecture

Among the Fey-Born races the Dweorg the ancestor race of the dwarves is most evident as a slave race created by the Fey Lords. Built Hardy and strong with bodies like stone, bones of metal and stubbron souls of fire it would be their lot in life to be eternal labourers. Cursed with short blunt fingers and with a great difficulty in expressing themselves emotionaly or artisticly the Dweorg have little to no art or work they can call their own. They are well aware of this however and deep down they yern to break free of the yoke impossed upon them by the lords of the fey but the very curse that supress their expression and creativity makes it nearly impossable. Thus their legacy in the Faerie Realm is the great tunnels they carve as they bring stone, gems and raw resources to the rulers of that realm all the while struggling to express themselves and lamenting their existance.

Common Myths and Legends

The Dweorg know they were created as slaves destined for hard labor and engineered that breaking from their inherent design is a feat of rare fortitude. Yet they know of the dwarves who came from them and secretly take pride in their freedom and tales of their crafts, heroes and tales of the warmth of their halls. Many Dweorg dream of becoming free of the fey lords and speak of how the dwarves were given to the young god Kyron as had many of the Fey-born been granted to the Godsborn as gifts or trade and that when Kyron seen how the spirit of the Dweorg was made to suffer unable to express emotion or create he broke the curse of the fey lords and breathed free will into them. These emancipated Dweorg would come to call Kyrons plane their home and Kyron would come to demand all Dweorg be freed by the Fey Lords.
The war for the freedom of the Dweorg has lasted for eons. The Forge God is said to have waged the first war long ago and freed many of the Dweorg earning himself the tittle of the Bane Bringer when he forged the first weapons of Cold Iron and brought them to bare against a particularly cruel Fey Lord. The conflict has raged since with many fey lords having to face angelic forces, freed Dweorg and agents of Kyron who in the eyes of the Fey is a thief attempting to steal what is theirs. Many of the Seelie have freed their Dweorg rather then face the wrath of Kyron but the malicious and petty Fey Lords continue to capture and force Dweorg into lives of toil thus drawing the Bane Bringers fury.
Many Dweorg secretly turn to Kyron and pray for his salvation and it is a common belief that someday he will free all Dweorg and grant them the gift of freedom so they might take joy in their work and express thier passions properly. This legend is a spark of hope that keeps the grim and fatalistic Dweorg from fully giving in to the dour existence they were designed for and needless to say the Fey Lords are not kind when Dweorg are discovered worshiping Kyron or spreading tales of freedom among their kind.