Duegar - Downloaded from the Wizards Community, all coding removed by Solauren

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#1 bone_yard May 07, 2008 5:55:15	In a couple a weeks i'm joining a Eberron game and I've been thinking about playing a Duegar(sp?) and I wanted to know were they came from and what role if any they play in the world
#2 BlackDragon71425 May 07, 2008 13:12:18	In the PGtoE there is a small exerpt about Duergar. They, of course, are an evil variety of dwarves found mostly in Kyber. Some people believe they get their psionic powers from to much time spent within the proximity of the daelkyr lords trapped in Kyber. They may play a part as the group of dwarves from the dead city of Noldrunhold, but that is up to you and your DM to decide on as backstory.
#3 arz May 07, 2008 13:24:19	There is also information in the Sarlona book about the Akiak clan of Duergar. They are firmly involved with the revolt against the dreaming dark.
#4 rageofthemodrons101 May 10, 2008 21:28:32	I'd say that the Akiak choice for being a character is best.
#5 yrogerg May 11, 2008 22:23:31	In the PGtoE there is a small exerpt about Duergar. They, of course, are an evil variety of dwarves found mostly in Kyber. Some people believe they get their psionic powers from to much time spent within the proximity of the daelkyr lords trapped in Kyber. They may play a part as the group of dwarves from the dead city of Noldrunhold, but that is up to you and your DM to decide on as backstory. Personally, I like this option quite a bit more than the one that puts all psionics in Sarlona. In my Eberron, this is where I've placed them. I also added a bit more flesh to that suggestion: cut for the disinterested Basically, when the Dwarves migrated from the Frostfell during the Age of Monsters, they were most likely fleeing some unnamed calamity (which itself is something I'm planning on making the focus of a future campaign), but they really went from the frying pan into the fire. The place they first settled had a Daelkyr bound below it, as well as a recently-created dimensional seal. Here, the histories of the Mrorish Dwarves and the Duergar diverge. According to the dwarves we all know and love, the Duergar were originally a dwarvish clan and that this clan was responsible for awaking the horrors below. The newly settled dwarves were hard-pressed, but eventually won out, and re-sealed the daekyr and its army. However, in punishment and contrition for the calamity they unleashed, the Duergar's clan was bound to the gate, and forsworn to forever defend the clans against these untold horrors. According to the Duergar's history, their clan was one of the oldest and most noble of the dwarven clans, and they took the duty of protecting the clans upon themselves out of their own sense of duty. In their version, the other clans broke their oaths and abandoned them to their fate. Surface-dwelling dwarves are despised as "oath-breakers" by the duergar. Either way, the Duergar have spend the intervening centuries deep underground, bound by their oaths -voluntary or compulsory- to guard the seal to untold horrors. In the intervening time, they've grown to resent the dwarves that abandoned them to this fat, as well as aberrations of Kyber, at once both their prisoners and gaolers. At the same time, the influence of these horrors has corrupted them, rendering them half-mad, while infusing them with corrupt psionic abilities. Moreover, while they despise the aberrations they watch over, the duergar have long since adopted many of the daelkyr's weapons in the fight against them- something the surface-dwelling dwarves point to as clear evidence of their corruption. Note however, that the madness varies somewhat between enclaves; some Deurgar can be the best allies against aberrations that adventurers could hope for; others, on the other hand, might just attack any outsiders on sight.
#6 revvecor May 27, 2008 22:44:57	I agree this interpretation of the Duegar seems to fit with my vision of the Eberron far better then the exerpt. It shows how the same former culture branches into separate distinct entities like the other races and fills in a gap in the history of the dwarven culture.

cut for the disinterested

Basically, when the Dwarves migrated from the Frostfell during the Age of Monsters, they were most likely fleeing some unnamed calamity (which itself is something I'm planning on making the focus of a future campaign), but they really went from the frying pan into the fire. The place they first settled had a Daelkyr bound below it, as well as a recently-created dimensional seal.

Here, the histories of the Mrorish Dwarves and the Duergar diverge. According to the dwarves we all know and love, the Duergar were originally a dwarvish clan and that this clan was responsible for awaking the horrors below. The newly settled dwarves were hard-pressed, but eventually won out, and re-sealed the daekyr and its army. However, in punishment and contrition for the calamity they unleashed, the Duergar's clan was bound to the gate, and forsworn to forever defend the clans against these untold horrors.

According to the Duergar's history, their clan was one of the oldest and most noble of the dwarven clans, and they took the duty of protecting the clans upon themselves out of their own sense of duty. In their version, the other clans broke their oaths and abandoned them to their fate. Surface-dwelling dwarves are despised as "oath-breakers" by the duergar.

Either way, the Duergar have spend the intervening centuries deep underground, bound by their oaths -voluntary or compulsory- to guard the seal to untold horrors. In the intervening time, they've grown to resent the dwarves that abandoned them to this fat, as well as aberrations of Kyber, at once both their prisoners and gaolers. At the same time, the influence of these horrors has corrupted them, rendering them half-mad, while infusing them with corrupt psionic abilities. Moreover, while they despise the aberrations they watch over, the duergar have long since adopted many of the daelkyr's weapons in the fight against them- something the surface-dwelling dwarves point to as clear evidence of their corruption.

Note however, that the madness varies somewhat between enclaves; some Deurgar can be the best allies against aberrations that adventurers could hope for; others, on the other hand, might just attack any outsiders on sight.