Short and hairy

As elves are to Torin, so are dwarves to Unofotine. They fill the role of short, hairy men that live mostly underground, and they keep great pride in their work - and for good reason.

Unofotine were created at the same time as the Torin by the god of challenges. They were placed on a desolate rocky continent and forced to eek out a living from the rocks and their own two hands. As such, their simple survival as a species gives them a lot to be proud of, and they are feircely defensive of any member of their own race. They dug down to escape the harsh sunlight, building first caves and warrens, then a grand civlization. Hundreds of years after burying themselves underground, they spread out to the surface again, now prepared for it's dangers, and ultimately to mingle with the other races and the rest of the world.

Unofotine would average five feet were they to stand straight, but their lives underground give them hunched postures, and with their hands and forarms evolved with thick bones and long talons for digging through the ground they mildly resemble gorillas, although in face and temperment they would more likely be likened to bears. The claws at the end of their hands make it difficult for them to use their hands for much delicate work, and they have developed only the crudest written language.

They are not craftsmen of fine and delicate things, but of great and rough things. Caves, magic stones, occasionally armor or weapons, and mostly buildings. They are great architects and tireless laborers, but their services are not cheap - they enjoy the labor of the more finely-fingered races for delicate workings. Still, they mostly stay to themselves when they can.