Chaos Dwarfs - Revision history

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	! colspan="6" style="background:#2d2d2d; font-size:120%; padding:6px; text-align:center;" \| '''Compatible Classes'''		! colspan="5" style="background:#2d2d2d; font-size:120%; padding:6px; text-align:center;" \| '''Compatible Classes'''
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	\| style="background:#1e1f22;" \| [[Assassin]]		\| style="background:#1e1f22;" \| [[Assassin]]
	\| style="background:#1e1f22;" \| [[Pyromancer]]		\| style="background:#1e1f22;" \| [[Pyromancer]]
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	! colspan="6" style="background:#262626; font-size:90%; padding:6px; text-align:center;" \| '''Gunpowder Proficient: Members of this race can use of gunpowder-powered weapons.'''		! colspan="6" style="background:#262626; font-size:90%; padding:6px; text-align:center;" \| '''Gunpowder Proficient: Members of this race can use of gunpowder-powered weapons.'''

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Combat

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	==Combat==		==Combat==
	Adventurers born of this race naturally align with the following subclasses, which they may choose during character creation.		Adventurers born of this race naturally align with the following subclasses, which they may choose during character creation.
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	==Playing a Dawi-Zharr==		==Playing a Dawi-Zharr==

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	==Gender Roles & Sexuality==		==Gender Roles & Sexuality==

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	\| [[Norsca]]		\| [[Norsca]]
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	\| [[Druchii\|Druchii (Dark Elves)]]		\| [[Druchii\|Druchii (Dark Elves)]]
	\| <span style="color:#~~00ff00~~; font-weight:bold;">Friendly</span>		\| <span style="color:#88ff88; font-weight:bold;">Friendly</span>
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	\| rowspan="1" style="background:#2d2d2d; text-align:center; color:#ffdd88;" \| '''Dwarfs'''		\| rowspan="1" style="background:#2d2d2d; text-align:center; color:#ffdd88;" \| '''Dwarfs'''
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	\| [[Ogre]]		\| [[Ogre]]
	\| <span style="color:#~~00ff00~~; font-weight:bold;">Friendly</span>		\| <span style="color:#88ff88; font-weight:bold;">Friendly</span>
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	\| [[Chaos]]		\| [[Chaos]]
	\| <span style="color:#~~00ff00~~; font-weight:bold;">Friendly</span>		\| <span style="color:#88ff88; font-weight:bold;">Friendly</span>
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	\| [[Vampire]]		\| [[Vampire]]

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	\| name = Dawi-Zharr (Chaos Dwarfs)		\| name = Dawi-Zharr (Chaos Dwarfs)

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 * '''Strengths:''' Highly disciplined, magically adept, master engineers and smiths; fearsome in battle and highly organized.
 * '''Weaknesses:''' Cruel, paranoid, and rigidly hierarchical; overreliance on slaves and sorcery can create internal instability; hubris often leads to conflict with other Chaos factions.
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Overview

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	* '''Religion:''' Hashut is the only god worth the name. All others are fuel.		* '''Religion:''' Hashut is the only god worth the name. All others are fuel.

	===Relations with Other Races===		===Morality, Slavery, and Corruption===
			* '''Slavery:''' Central to society. Chaos Dwarfs enslave humans, goblins, and other races as workers, soldiers, or sacrificial labor. Slaveholding is a mark of status and wealth.
			* '''Non-consent sexual relationships:''' Practiced within certain elite circles and tolerated culturally; usually linked to domination, power, or breeding strategies for strong offspring.
			* '''Vulnerability to Chaos corruption:''' Moderate to high. Though devoted to Hashut, their pursuit of power, ambition, and infernal sorcery makes them highly susceptible to mutation, demonic influence, or internal corruption.

			===Strengths & Weaknesses===
			* '''Strengths:''' Highly disciplined, magically adept, master engineers and smiths; fearsome in battle and highly organized.
			* '''Weaknesses:''' Cruel, paranoid, and rigidly hierarchical; overreliance on slaves and sorcery can create internal instability; hubris often leads to conflict with other Chaos factions.

			==Relations with Other Races==
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	~~===Strengths & Weaknesses===~~
	* '''Strengths:''' Hell-forged war machines, daemon engines, unbreakable discipline, sorcery that melts steel.
	* '''Weaknesses:''' Few in number, sorcerers slowly turn to stone, reliant on treacherous slave armies.

	==Playing a Dawi-Zharr==		==Playing a Dawi-Zharr==

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 ==Physical Appearance==
 Imagine a Dwarf sculpted from volcanic glass and hatred, then dressed him in a walking fortress of brass and black iron. That is the baseline. Bull Centaurs are the same torso grafted onto a snorting, fire-breathing bull of muscle and plate. Even the lowliest overseer looks like an ancient Assyrian war-god.
 ==Notable Ranks & Careers==
 Slave → Overseer → Infernal Guard → Immortal → Daemonsmith → Sorcerer-Prophet → High Priest of Hashut

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 ===Relations with Other Races===
-* '''Dawi (western Dwarfs)''' - Hostile (traitors who abandoned the true path)
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-* '''Greenskins''' - Hostile (excellent raw material)
+! Category
-* '''Hobgoblins''' - Neutral (useful overseers, kept on a very short chain)
+! Faction
-* '''Chaos Warriors''' - Neutral (fellow servants of the Dark Gods, sometimes)
+! Relation
-* '''Chaos Corruption''' - Resistant (Hashut’s fire burns the lesser gifts away)
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-* '''Slavery''' - Encouraged (the natural order of existence)
+| rowspan="7" style="background:#2d2d2d; text-align:center; color:#88ccff;" | '''Humans'''
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{{Race Infobox
| name = Dawi-Zharr (Chaos Dwarfs)
| image = Chaosdwarvesart.jpg
| caption = By fire and brass we rule; by chains we prosper

| founding = Around -3000 IC (after the great betrayal of the east)
| founder = The first Sorcerer-Prophets who heard Hashut’s voice
| current_leader = The Conclave of Sorcerer-Prophets (Astragoth Ironhand is the eldest)

| capital = Zharr-Naggrund, the Tower of Gorgoth
| major_cities = Daemon’s Stump, Uzkulak, the Black Fortress, Mingol Zharr-Naggrund
| regions = The Plain of Zharr and the Dark Lands

| lifespan = 400-600 years (longer for those who keep the stone curse at bay)
| height = 150-170 cm (4′11″ - 5′7″)

| language = Khazalid twisted with daemon-tongues and the crack of whips
| religion = Hashut, Father of Darkness, Lord of Tyranny and the Forge
| government = Theocratic oligarchy of Sorcerer-Prophets; every lower caste exists to serve

| allies = Hobgoblins (treacherous dogs on a short leash), Ogre mercenaries, occasional Chaos Warriors
| enemies = Dawi (the western traitors), Greenskins (useful slaves), Skaven, everyone else who breathes free air
}}

'''The Dawi-Zharr''' are the Chaos Dwarfs: the black sheep that ate the rest of the flock. When the ancestors marched west, our forefathers looked east and saw power in the dark. We built ziggurats that scrape the sky, forges that never cool, and an empire that runs on screams and coal. Where a normal Dwarf carves runes of protection, we bind daemons into iron. Where a normal Dwarf drinks ale and sings of ancestors, we drink the blood of slaves and sing of Hashut’s glory. We are everything our weak cousins fear to become.

==Overview==
If you want to play a four-foot industrial tyrant who thinks compassion is a structural weakness and whose hobby is binding daemons into artillery, welcome to the Dark Lands.

===Appearance===
Stout and broad like true Dawi, but skin turned to obsidian by furnace heat. Eyes glow furnace-red behind tall, crested great-helms of black iron and brass. Beards oiled with slave-fat, braided into perfect geometric shapes or forged into solid metal tusks. Armour so heavy a human would buckle under it, yet we march for days without tiring.

===Culture & Society===
* '''Regions:''' The ash-choked Plain of Zharr and every slave-pit that feeds it.
* '''Culture:''' Production quotas, daemon contracts, and the sacred mathematics of suffering.
* '''Names:''' Astragoth, Drazhoath, Ghorth the Cruel, Zhatan the Black, Rykarth the Unbreakable.
* '''Religion:''' Hashut is the only god worth the name. All others are fuel.

===Relations with Other Races===
* '''Dawi (western Dwarfs)''' - Hostile (traitors who abandoned the true path)
* '''Greenskins''' - Hostile (excellent raw material)
* '''Hobgoblins''' - Neutral (useful overseers, kept on a very short chain)
* '''Chaos Warriors''' - Neutral (fellow servants of the Dark Gods, sometimes)
* '''Chaos Corruption''' - Resistant (Hashut’s fire burns the lesser gifts away)
* '''Slavery''' - Encouraged (the natural order of existence)

===Strengths & Weaknesses===
* '''Strengths:''' Hell-forged war machines, daemon engines, unbreakable discipline, sorcery that melts steel.
* '''Weaknesses:''' Few in number, sorcerers slowly turn to stone, reliant on treacherous slave armies.

==Playing a Dawi-Zharr==
Speak in measured tones, as though calculating the cost of every word. Emotions are inefficient; cruelty is simply good management. A Sorcerer-Prophet does not rage; he adjusts the torture schedule until the desired result is achieved. A Daemonsmith does not boast; he lets the screaming of the bound daemon do it for him. An Infernal Guard does not fear death; he fears disappointing the tally.

You do not conquer for glory. You conquer because the ledger demands it.

==Physical Appearance==
Imagine a Dwarf sculpted from volcanic glass and hatred, then dressed him in a walking fortress of brass and black iron. That is the baseline. Bull Centaurs are the same torso grafted onto a snorting, fire-breathing bull of muscle and plate. Even the lowliest overseer looks like an ancient Assyrian war-god.

==Notable Ranks & Careers==
Slave → Overseer → Infernal Guard → Immortal → Daemonsmith → Sorcerer-Prophet → High Priest of Hashut

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