From publisher blurb: In the dawn of the world when the dust was settling The Great Architect, Calymdar, crafted from the mountain stones his children the Calemdour who have come to be more commonly referred to as dwarves. Dwarves are a small stout race with immensely long beards. Dwarves are of the mountains and as such retire to dwelling deep within the mines and halls of their elaborate mountain kingdoms.