THESE BEINGS, CREATED BY THE “CHILD-GOD” AGOTHORATHIES, HAVE BEEN THE CATALYST FOR ALL WAR AND CHAOS IN THE ONE LAND.

AT THE TIME OF THIS SAGA, THE WIZARDS ARE LONG GONE; BUT THE BLACK WIZARD, "HE WHO EMBODIES ALL THAT IS DARKNESS,” MAY BE RETURNING.

RIMGURD and CREEL
CHIEF SMITH AND FORGE-MASTER

IT IS THE JOB OF THESE TWO DWARVES TO MONITOR AND PROVIDE LEADERSHIP TO THE MINERS AND SMITHS OF THE KORTHIAN HOLD; AND THOUGH MUCH OF THE OLD ENGINEERING IS NO LONGER IN USE, THE HAGD’ GUITH, THE GREAT FORGE, WITH ITS ACCOMPANYING FURNACES AND SMELTERS, IS STILL IN USE. BECAUSE IT IS TH E MOUNTAIN OF KORTH THAT GIVES LIFE TO THE FORGES, IT IS USUALLY A SIMPLE MATTER OF HEAT REDIRECTION.

BOTH ARE MASTER CRAFTSMEN, AND THOUGH TOGETHER THEY MANUFACTURE SOME WONDEROUS MACHINERY, THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY OPPOSITE SIDES OF A COIN.

LIKE MOST OF THE KORTHIAN DWARVES RIMGURD AND CREEL ARE BATTLE HARDENED, HAVING EARNED MUCH RECOGNITION FOR THERE DEEDS IN THE RACE WAR. RIMGURD WEILDS A LARGE TWO-HANDED MORNING STAR IN COMBAT, WHILE CREEL PREFERS THE USE OF A SIMPLE, BUT HARDENED CLUB.

URKED THE BLIND and
HOGURTH FLEETFOOT
KORTHIAN SCOUT AND RUNNER

IN THE DAYS OF THE GREAT DWARVEN KINGDOMS, SCOUTS AND RUNNERS WERE HELD WITH ESTEEM; THEY WERE THE VOICE OF THE DWARF KINGS AND CARRIERS OF MESSAGES.

URKED THE BLIND LOST HIS SIGHT WHEN STILL A CHILD; BUT THIS LOSS ONLY MADE HIM MORE AWARE OF HIS OTHER TALENTS. URKED ESSENTIALLY "SEES" THROUGH THE SOUNDS AND SMELLS AROUND HIM, HIS HEIGHTENED PERCEPTIONS AND KEEN MEMORY GIVING HIM AN ADVANTAGE OVER OTHER TRACKERS AND SCOUTS.

HORGURTH FLEETFOOT IS KORTH'S RUNNER. WITH THE FALL OF THE GREAT DWARF KINGDOOMS, THERE'S BECOME LITTLE NEED FOR A MESSENGER, AND HIS AGILE FOOT FINDS LESS USE IN THE STILL OF THE KORTHIAN VALLEY. BUT HOGURTH'S KEEN EYES AND QUICK PACE MAKE HIM INVALUABLE FOR RECONOITERING. HORURTH IS QUITE FOND OF HIS PIPE, LIKE MANY DWARVES, AND GROWS HIS OWN LEAF IN THE DARKENED CAVERNS OF KORTH.

ORRLIND a nd VAME
SHE-DWARVES OF KORTH

WHEN THE GOBLINS FIRST LAUNCH THEIR ASSAULT ON THE KORTH DWARVES, ORRLIND WAS ONE OF THE FEW SHE-DWARVES THAT SURVIVED CAPTURE. ORRLIND IS CRIPPLED BY THE GOBLINS AFTER SHE TRIES TO ESCAPE THEIR ENCAMPMENT--HER LEG NEVER HEALS AND SHE CARRIES A STAFF HENCE FORTH, A CONSTANT REMINDER OF GOBLIN CRUELTY.

VAME IS A QUIET AND SIMPLE DWARF OF KORTH. LIKE ORRLIND SHE IS CAPTURED BY THE GOBLIN RAIDING PARTY. VAME'S SIMPLE ATTITUDES BECOME DIRE AS SHE REALIZES SHE MIGHT BE PREGNENT WITH A GOBLIN CHILD. HER MATE, THURAN ZAGITH, IS DEEPLY DISTURBED.

GROMES
THE FIRST DWARVES

AFTER THE OLD GODS HAD PASSED, AND THE AGE OF SERINITY ENDED WITH THE FALLING OF THE HEAVENS, OR THE DUN'GORO'AUTH, NEW BEINGS EMERGED TO STAKE THEIR CLAIM ON THE ONE LAND.

UNDER THE WILL OF THE CHILD GOD AGOTHORATHIES THE GROMES, ANCESTORS OF THE DWARVES, AROSE FROM THE SCARRED LAND. IT BECAME THEIR TASK TO REBUILD THE MOUNTAINS, LIFT THE CLIFFS, AND DELVE NEW RAVINES.

UNDER THE POWER OF THE GREAT WIZARDS, THESE BEINGS LATER BECAME THE DWARVES; BUT A FEW GROMES REJECTED THE GIFTS OF THE WIZARDS AND FLED BEYOND THE GREAT ICE DRIFT.

HIGH ELVES
ELVISH ANCESTORS

AS THE DWARVES AROSE FROM ROCK AND SOIL, SO THE ELVES EMERGED FROM THE REMAINING TREES. TO REJOIN WITH THE TREES, THE LONG SLEEP, HAS BECOME THE GREAT ELVISH OBSESSION. TO SLEEP AND AWAKEN IN A NEW AGE.

THE ANCIENT ELVES, THE HIGH ELVES, EMERGED FROM THE TREES FOLLOWING THE DUN'GORO'AUTH. IT FELL UPON THEM TO RAISE NEW FORESTS AND NURTURE PLANT GROWTH.

TONAHJA
BEAST LORD

THE BEAST LORDS REPRESENT THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ANIMALS AND CREATURES OF THE ONE LAND, GIVEN CORPEAL MANIFESTATION.

TONAHJA, WHO APPEARS AS A HALF-ELF THEIF, IS IN ACTUALLITY A CAT. HE IS ABLE TO SHIFT BETWEEN THREE DISTINCTIVE FORMS AT WILL: A HALF-ELVISH HUMNOID, A WERECAT LIKE HALF BREED, AND A SMALL FELINE WITH JET FUR.