Ourworld:Dwarves

The Dwarves of the World Spine Mountains, and the Lonely Mountain.

The first, last and most important fact about the Dwarves: they have no soul. All other things flow from this fact. A Dwarf is an animated Dwarven body, to speak otherwise is to lie. What then animates a dwarven body? His name. An unnamed Dwarf is a corpse, and that is really all there is to say on the matter.

This has some rather serious ramifications for the mountain folk. Most notably they canot be ressurected , for this involves finding a soul which has fled its earthly home and entreating it to take up residence once more, and since there is no resident to appeal to, no resurrection may be had. Indeed, any magic that requires a Dwarves’ consciousness to function independently from his body (such as astral projection for instance) will, quite simply, fail. There are also more subtle ramifications of the Dwarves' unity of mind and body, not least of which is a Dwarves' extreme difficulty dealing with, or indeed even understanding , abstraction.