Dwarf

Dwarves (scientific name Homo nanus) are descendants from humanity in the far future of 24816 A.D. in the world of Terra. Although they are mutated humans, many other races, even their xenophobic ancestors, would say that they resemble humans a lot, just shorter and stockier. However, the dwarves have facial structures resembling Neanderthals more, have strudier bones, more muscle tone, rougher skin, and it's not uncommon for a few dwarves to be born with horns either. It's been said that the dwarves are even more xenophobic than mankind is, which is really saying something for a race that had a majority of its members turn a gigantic island into a floating city-state just to isolate themselves from the rest of the world. Hoblings are descendants of dwarves themselves, although the two races have virtually nothing to do with each other.

When dwarves frist began to appear after the Fallout of Past's Yonder, they seemed to be the only group of mutants to remember that they evolved from man, unlike the rest of the races. However, like the humans at the time who were living in vaults, dwarves choosed to build fortresses underground and create entire subterranean cities and nations. These new "successors" to mankind showed that despite the planet being a total wasteland that civilizations could still thrive. Of course, the dwarves, having a superiority complex, would sometimes mine into vaults and slaughter any humans down there due to thinking of them as being "inferior". The dwarves however didn't discriminate when it came to trying to wipe out an entire race though. It's believed that during the time that humanity protected itself from the outside world that the dwarves effectively commited genocide on many different races, driving some to extinction due to their "inferiority". This would explain why even in the current game setting that there isn't an overly large abundance of races in the world.

Eventually mankind decided to stop pussy-footing in the vaults and come out of hiding now that radiation levels had lowered enough. Several mutants were shocked at the deveastating power that humans had, including the dwarves. Things got even worse when humans gained the ability to use magic, something which the dwarves could not use and actually had a crippling weakness to. Some dwarves even gave into humanity's strength and followed them in retaking Terra along with some Luna Mer, Solar Mer and some Monster slaves. Eventually this alliance fell after being overwelmed by a unifed fighting force composed of the mutants. This drove a majority of humanity, and a few of the races which aided them into isolating themselves in TriEdward's City, staying safe from the horde of mutants which resided on the ground below.

Today many dwarves still live under Terra's surface, although a few of them live above-ground, but are generally looked down upon by many other dwarves. As usual a small amount of females is what prevents their populations from exploding and causing more chaos. All male dwarves have beards, and loosing one's facial hair is worse than receiving a death sentence in dwarven culture. Due to their biological compound, alcohol functions the same way that water does for many other races; essential to consume in order to survive. Even young dwarves start drinking the hard stuff from birth, and would die without it. Destructive temper tanturms nearly on par with a "WAAAGH!" from an Ork are not uncommon either, and while incredibly strong in combat, cannot fucntion properly in soceity while insane. Of course dwarves are very skilled blacksmiths and miners, beating out the Orkz who they share a special hate with, even stronger than the usual detests they have for other mutants. Also are particularly fond of eating felines of any size, from house cats to lions and even beastmen who resemble felines are not safe from being apart of a dwarven diet. Dwarves also enjoy anything related to magma and fire, going in psychotic trance-like states when around it for too long. For unexplainable reasons, many dwarves are afraid of anything that looks like an elephant, which other races have taken advantage of in the past.

So who knows what will happen to the dwarves in this day and age. Their underground cities and tunnels can be located under every continent, but seldomly do they rise from Terra's surface these days. However, one dwarf from TriEdward's City, Compent, has escpaed his island prison and has took over the great and powerful dwarven kingdom of Serbia, turning it into a fascist socialist nation of the Compine. Not only that but Compent has forced the other dwarves into accepting mutants and monsters into their ranks as equals, and made dwarven colonies up on the surface. This revolutonary action, along with the formation of the Compine, is going to shake up the world and leave a lasting impact on history.