The Dwarven race is largely known, by the non-Dwarves of the outside world, for their proficiency at mining. It is a well deserved reputation, as mining to Dwarves is akin to eating or talking for other races. Dwarven children receive their first rock hammer in the crib, along with stones to bang on with it. They receive interesting rocks to break apart on their birthdays and their own mineshaft when they come of age. Dwarven music is comprised almost entirely of the sound of things hitting stone in complex rhythms and many a happy adolescence is spent burrowing deep into the bones of the
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