Aethric • Dwarves

Stone-Oath Kin

Dwarves of Aethric: endurance, craft, devotion. Stone remembers. Oaths bind.

About the Stone-Oath Kin

The Stone-Oath Kin shape metal and rock as acts of worship. Society is woven from oaths rather than blood alone. The memory of ancestors is kept in song and in stone, and breaking an oath is worse than death.

All clans meet each decade at the Stone Conclave beneath the Shattermark to settle disputes and renew vows. Once judgments are carved, none are broken.

Shared Tenets

Stone remembers; treat it with reverence.
Craft is covenant between maker, wielder, and ancestors.
Oaths bind clans; words are chisels.

Clans & Traditions

Forgebound

Samurai-inspired warrior-smiths. Smithing is sacrament; their soulforged blades can be awakened with runes.

Resonants

Monk-builders who sing rock into shape. Their halls are tuned like living organs; songs awaken guardians.

Stoneward Clans

Traditionalist vault-keepers and relic wardens. Conservative, iron-loyal, impossible to bribe.

Emberdeep

Wandering priest-smiths who bear sacred flame abroad, mending what is broken and forging pacts far from home.

Stone Conclave

Every ten years the clans gather below the Shattermark. Forgebound present a masterwork blade; Resonants sing a decade of memory into the walls; Stoneward unveil relics; Emberdeep join foreign flames to the eternal fires.

Rivalries & Alliances

Forgebound ↔ Resonants: respectful friction, fire needs song.
Stoneward ↔ Emberdeep: keepers vs. wanderers.
All unite when ancestral vaults are threatened.

Language • Khazruk

Khazruk, the Stone-Tongue: percussive consonants, SOV order, sacred runes with legal and magical weight. Inscriptions spiral inward to the mountain’s heart.

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Sample Blessing

Baraz uzdar khaz.
Durak thruk du-kharaz.
Grumthar zorun kazruk.

“By oath of clan and stone. The forge-fire will shape the blade. The ancestors sing in the mountain.”

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