Yaarel
🇮🇱 🇺🇦 He-Mage
The dvergar are notable formations and patterns in rock, including veins of metal. They are the earth element.Also - for alternate ideas on dwarves - I recall RuneQuest Mostali - for instance see here and here. So. One idea is to tie them more intimately to Elemental Plane of Earth and then have Clay Dwarves (say, hill dwarves), Rock Dwarves etc.
PS: loved RuneQuest lore (monsters, deities etc.) - was really refreshing, original and different to DnD. Sad I didn't get to play it more in the 80s but oh well....
They also relate to water. They inhabit both stone and mud. An extensive description of a dvergar family, has each one shapeshifting into water animals to swim in the water, including salmon, otter, and even the serpent Fafnir relates to a snake that can swim. So, the water element.
But the dvergar are also fey, relating to fate, cursing with bad luck, for an unsuccessful fate.
From a D&D perspective, I dont mind the "Negative Energy" of a curse, relating to the Shadowfell, opposite the "Positive Energy" blessing, relating to the Feywild.
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