There are three major Dwarven cities in west Highland. The Dwarves most commonly seen among humans are travelers from the underground halls of Hitarn in the mountains north of Biblyon.
Most humans have seen nothing more of Dwarves than the huge coins they use for barter, and few enough have seen that. Travelers who meet Dwarves on the road may be surprised by the Dwarves they meet in their underground halls. Those Dwarves who choose to leave the great halls are friendlier and more open to meeting new people than their compatriots who stay behind. Most Dwarves are quiet around strangers, taciturn, gruff, and inclined to isolation.
- The Dwarf Halls: Hitarn
- The folk etymology for Hitarn is that it derives as southern halls. Dwarven mythology says that there is a greater Dwarven hall far north in the huge mountains of the great Dwarf-lord Oberon. The Dwarves of Hitarn will say that their halls were started as the last, most southern outpost of these legendary forebears.
- The Dwarf Halls: Mentarn
- According to the legends of the Mentarn clan, the silver-studded halls of Mentarn were first excavated not by Dwarves but by a great silvery dragon. Thousands of years ago, the Dwarven prince Obeag lead an army of Dwarves to end the depredations of the dragon, defeated it, and took the halls for their own.
- The Dwarf Halls: Feltarn
- The dour and taciturn southern Dwarves are renowned among even the Dwarves for their ore-lust and deep-delving. The great halls of Feltarn wind completely through the mountains, providing a Dwarven pass from the River Valley to the Deep Forest. The Dwarves of Feltarn keep the location of their eastern entrance a secret known only to themselves.
- The Cataclysm
- Among the tales the Dwarves tell of the Cataclysm, are that it tore asunder the mountain home of Dwarf and Giant. Where once the Dwarves and Giants battled for control of the mountains, each now lived in mountains hundreds of miles apart, separated by the Celtic valley.
- Language Notes
- The Dwarves use two written languages: reckoning is a simple means of tracking trades and shipments. They use a variation on Celtic runes for more detailed records, though they don’t keep a lot of them.
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