Editing Yagura:SRD:Dwarves (Race) (section)

==Unchanging Legacy==
Dwarves can live to be more than 400 years old, a secret well-kept from the other races. Their traditions allow them to exist for centuries without any noticeable change, so other races recognizing the difference between an elderly dwarf and one 200 years younger is rare. The oldest living dwarves often remember a very different world, granting them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack.

Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries with stoic endurance and little change. They respect the traditions of their clans, tracing their ancestry back to the founding of their most ancient strongholds in the youth of the world, and don’t abandon those traditions lightly. Part of those traditions is devotion to the gods of the dwarves, who uphold the dwarven ideals of industrious labor, skill in battle, and devotion to the clan.

Individual dwarves are determined and loyal, true to their word and decisive in action, sometimes to the point of stubbornness. Many dwarves have a strong sense of justice, and they are slow to forget wrongs they have suffered. A wrong done to one dwarf is a wrong done to the dwarf’s entire clan, so what begins as one dwarf’s hunt for vengeance can become a full-blown clan feud. A clan that loses the respect of other clans is a clan that loses property, wealth, and territory. While clan infighting is avoided at high costs, a dwarf's loyalty is not to his or her race, but to the clan alone.