Urdunnir

Urdunnirin (singular: urdunnir) are a long-forgotten offshoot of the dwarves. Their name means "orecutter" in the urdunnir dialect of Dwarvish.

Ecology
Urdunnirin do not eat normal foods. Instead, they feed on gems as xorn do. The god Dumathoin provides each urdunnir settlement with a self-replenishing gem supply so that his people do not starve. They guard these sources to the death.

Urdunnirin are deadly enemies with xorn, and kill them on sight.

Typical physical characteristics
Urdunnirin look much like gold dwarves. Their skin and hair, however, are stone gray and their eyes are silver. Males groom their gray beards carefully; females do not have facial hair.

All urdunnirin have the ability to walk through solid earth and stone at will, moving through these normally solid materials as if they were air. They can move up to twice their body weight with them in this manner. They also have an innate ability to shape stone and metal as if they were wet clay, the materials remaining solid after they're done with them.

Urdunnirin wear tight-fitting,, one-piece garments composed of metal, stone, or both. They use their innate abilities to make these garments flexible. Only their leaders wear clothing completely composed of metal.

Society
Urdunnerin are led by alirds, or gold lords, whose power to shape metal is greater than usual for that race. Urdunnirin have a clan-based society, like most other dwarves. Known clans include Marble, Gold, and Ruby.

Religion
Dwarven myth says that urdunnir have been specially blessed by the god Dumathoin.