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Deep Dwarves
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Deep Dwarves are a species who, unlike their Mountain Dwarf relatives,
never left their underground home. Living there for countless
generations made them pale and lose all ability to regenerate on their
own (nor are they receptive to outside effects which merely hasten
regeneration), as well as all ability to recover from losses to physical
attributes over time. On the other hand, Deep Dwarves have developed the
ability to instantly counteract small doses of damage.
Given their lack of innate healing, few Deep Dwarves want for adventures
or even combat. Those who do usually bring a wand of healing, or rely on
divine assistance.
Naturally, Deep Dwarves are quite adept with all arts of avoiding blows
and damage and ungifted in the ways of physical combat. Those who have
to defend their ground most often go with ranged combat (except for
bows, which are too unwieldy for them) or spells. Deep Dwarves are
highly spiritual beings, often portrayed as actual spirits by outsiders.
They are most at home with the magics of earth and death.
Most unlike all other dwarves, they are pretty nimble. Deep Dwarves can
easily tinker with gadgets so as to recharge them. However, each time
they do so, they lose a bit of their magical essence.