Steam Dwarves

Steam Dwarves

Appearance

They are thought to have grey skin, with flecks of black and white, due to ancient documents, and they have been known to account for their lack of size with large Mechanicals.

History

The Steam Dwarves arrived seemingly out of nowhere, appearing in the world from within long dormant volcanoes, and instantly siezing control of the major empires. Their machines made it easy. In reality, they had lived inside the volcanoes for years, deactivating them themselves, and focused solely on technology. They were a single society. No houses, no royalty, just a single mind. Culture stagnated. Politics were eliminated. Law was discarded. Everything was technology. They themselves turned into mindless machines inside shells of flesh. When they attacked, nobody was prepared, and they sweeped through the nation. They then went to work forcing the other races into slavery, forcing them to create the massive factories and hollow factories required to build their empires. These slaves began to coordinate, using the Dwarves own explosives against them, destroying entire factories, collapsing whole mountains. The Dwarves, powerless without their machines, were swiftly eliminated, with the remaining stragglers retreating into their home city and closing the doors to the outside world, where plague, and their own machines, eventually wiped them out forever. All that remains of them now is their technology, waiting to be rediscovered and harnessed, ushering the world into the Industrial era centuries before they would otherwise have.