Golemgame:Setting

The launch platform for the golems of the Western front, Barad-Dai dwarves have always hated their southern neighbours. They are risk-takers by circumstance instead of choice - the northern reaches of Barad-Dai lands are inhospitably cold, while the south is under constant threat of attack from the Namoki, and vulnerable to golem attacks by both land and sea. Barad-Dai build their fortress homes deep underground, and rarely emerge from them except to hunt or raid shipping. The <i>de jure</i> Barad-Dai leader and god is one of the oldest golems, whom they have named Daguran. The most noble thing a dwarf can do is forge an adamantine chain link, and attach it to the many similar links that hang from Daguran's face like an enormous metal beard. Some would say that the <i>wisest</i> thing a dwarf can do is anything but this, as even the journey to track down Daguran's position in the Dustlands claims many lives. Dwarves tend to cross bloodlines with gnomes, although a handful of families carriy Raptoran blood. Nearly all of their members have hung their links on Daguran, and many landbound dwarves grumble that being able to fly is cheating.