Editing Category:Demi-Human Races (section)

=='''Physical Identification'''==
The Dwarven skeletal structure is blockish, and big boned in healthy specimens. Dwarves have short legs and slightly longer arms. Their arms hang from broad shoulders down to where their fingertips can touch their knees. They are stocky and walk erect, like thick little men. They are between 4' to 4'5" (122 - 137cm) in height and between 150 to 226lbs (68 - 103kg) in weight. They are surprisingly agile in movement but not graceful, tending to throw their weight when they walk rather than carry it. Their skulls are proportionately larger than a Human's and flat. Their eyes are spread far apart on either side of a large nose. They are square-jawed. A Dwarven mouth has larger teeth, all thick molars. 


'''Hill Dwarves’''' skin ranges in colour from red, when flaking on hands and face, to a healthy feldspar or silvery blue. Their dry skin is thick and leathery in texture, possibly as a result of living in the deep heat of the subterranean. '''Mountain Dwarves''' are less pale in comparison to their deeper dwelling cousins. Their tough skin tends to be tanner in colour, almost like deer hide.  


The hair of '''Hill Dwarves''' is coarse and ranges in colour from dark brown to crimson red. '''Mountain Dwarves’''' coarse hair is coloured lighter ranging from strawberry blonde to sandy brown.


To protect their skin from the boiling heat far below the earth’s crust, '''Hill Dwarves''' grow their hair and thick beards long and they grease and braid both their hair and their beards, sometimes into one braid design. This can create the illusion that both beard and hair are darker and grow together as one and the same.


The popular misconception that all Dwarven women grow beards is often due to an intricate beading of their long greased hair worn down the front and back. Another myth is that Dwarves, when shaved and naked, are indistinguishable from stone.  Wisely, no one living has attempted to prove either hypotheses.