Dwarf
"Dwarves did not build Duskcrag. Dwarves became Duskcrag. The difference matters to anyone who has tried to move one."
— Coalition historian, Gildspire NexusDwarves built Duskcrag's vaults, and four hundred years of family trade taught their hands what their eyes haven't caught up to yet.
Their relationship to stone and metal isn't mystical — it's generational expertise compressed into something that behaves like instinct. A Dwarf who's never been underground can still read a rock formation and find the stress fractures.
They feel the structure before they analyze it. Metallic filament seams along the knuckles and jaw mark a lifetime at the bench — the metal worked over generations slowly working its way back in.
Forge Lines
Metallic filament seams along the knuckles, wrists, and jaw — as if the metal worked over generations has slowly worked its way back in. Not tattoos. Something deeper, as if the body decided the metal belonged there.