City Dwarves

City Dwarves (sometimes known as "Gold Dwarves") are members of the Dwarven race who've permanently settled within the cities of other peoples and nations beyond their ancestral homeland of Durfaehn. While keeping many of the cultural traits that have defined the Dwarves for generations, their proximity to the cultures and ideals of the various other peoples they share their city homes with have given the City Dwarves a far more varied cultural identity compared to their cousins living within Durfaehn. Thanks to their industrious nature, as well as their skill ing jewel cutting and smithing, City Dwarves are a welcomed sight among the various cities of Taeva.

Culture

Culture and cultural heritage

Among the various Dwarven subgroups of Taeva, City Dwarves are well known for their deep appreciation of art and craftsmanship. While City Dwarves are just as skilled in metalsmithing as most other Dwarves, they've also shown great talent at jewel cutting and goldsmithing, both for artistic and mercantile purposes. It's thanks to these skills that the City Dwarves would become renowned for producing some of the finest works of Dwarven art, as well as for their skill as merchants, overseeing many of the trade deals between Durfaehn and the Human kingdoms.

Additionally, due to living in such a wide diaspora, City Dwarves have one of the most varied and diverse cultures among the Dwarves. While they maintain a number of common Dwarven cultural traits (like their appreciation for hard work and honesty), the City Dwarves have also adopted a number of cultural trait from the peoples they share their home cities with. Because of this, there exist a number of variations among the City Dwarf culture native to their particular region, with no two being completely alike.

Average technological level

The City Dwarves are skilled in the use and maintenance of Magitech, and make ready use of whatever Magitech is used within their home cities.

Common Etiquette rules

Like most Dwarves, City Dwarves value honest criticism. Additionally, due to their stubborn personalities, it's considered polite to wait for a City Dwarf to ask for help, rather than offer it.

Common Dress code

City Dwarf clothing commonly resembles that of the dominant culture of their home city, but scaled down to fit their size.

Art & Architecture

City Dwarf dwellings follow the architectural style of their homw city, and are designed to accomodate their size.Additionally, City Dwarf works of art still use the simple, blocky shapes that have become emblematic of Dwarven art, and focus largely on the creation of various jewelry pieces.

Funerary and Memorial customs

City Dwarves bury their dead alongside the peoples they share their home city with.

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

Like most Dwarves, City Dwarves consider diligence, honesty, and assertiveness to be attractive traits.

Gender Ideals

Compared to the Dwarves of Durfaehn, the gender ideals of City Dwarves are far more varied, typically influenced by the dominant culture of the city they inhabit.

Courtship Ideals

It typically falls on the man to propose, often through the presentation of a gift of sentimental value. This gift is typically purchased, though some of the more "old-fashioned' city Dwarves might craft their gift instead.

Relationship Ideals

City Dwarves are Monogamous.

Encompassed species

• Dwarves