Dwarves

Some groups of dwarves have almost universally bald men. Some also have universally bearded females. These traits often get latched onto as the dwarven sterotype. They are however not always true.

Less visible is the dwarves more limited taste pallet, they enjoy hot spices and strong alcohols in part becasue of a decreased sensitivity to those substances. It makes dwarves able to eat many things others would consider smelly or distasteful. They have a significant reduced sense of bitterness, making some dwarven food unpalatable by others.

Typically serious with dry humor. Dwarves exhibit a full range of emotions. Their image of being dour and gruff is more of a social trait that a purely biological one. For shorter lived races than the dwarf they can come off as plodding and slow in their decision making. Though the Elves often consider them hasty.

Common Phobias 1d8

1. Acrophobia - fear of heights
2. Neophobia - fear of new things/change
3. Agoraphobia - fear ofopen/public spaces
4. Gymnophobia - fear of nudity
5. Hylophobia - fear of trees, forests, woods
6. Wiccaphobia - fear of witches/witchcraft
7. Spectrophobia - fear of ghosts/phantoms
8. Xanthophobia - fear of the color yellow

Common Phiias (Unreasonable obsessions or Love of) 1d8

1. Pyrophilia - love of fire
2. Nyctophilia - love of dark/darkness
3. Oikophilia - love of household appliances/objects
4. Claustrophilia - love of enclosed/confined spaces
5. Megalophilia - love of large things
6. Symmetrophilia - love of symmetry/symmetrical things
7. Pogonophilia - love of beards
8. Toxiphilia - love of being tasting noxious things

Widely distributed with multiple cultures. Many of these cultures are named from their city/land of origin or a type of stone. These cultures include the Arton Dwarves , Basalt Dwarves, Granite Dwarves, Howlite Dwarves, Nephrite Dwarves, and Jasperlite Dwarves.

The Howlite Dwarves are especialy noteworthy for being a group culturally adapted to the deep underground and deep space. Their complexion without sun over generations developed a light purple/grey hue.