Chaos Dwarf
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The Chaos Dwarfs, who call themselves Dawi Zharr, are an offshoot of the Dwarfs. They live inside the Dark Lands and worship Hashut the Father of Darkness.
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Government & organization
Domains
Zharr Naggrund it the capital of the Chaos Dwarfs. This city is located in the middle of the Plain of Zharr, an enormous crater to the west of the Ogre Kingdoms in the Mountains of Mourn. The ground under and around the city is filled with mines and forges, the air thick with smoke from thousands of fires. It is built from black obsidian in the form of a massive Ziggurat, with the Temple of Hashut, the main temple, on top of it. Here, the Chaos Dwarfs sacrifice slaves and prisoners to Hashut, often after several days of torture.
Society & culture
The Chaos Dwarfs make extensive use of slaves to carry out menial tasks for them, and seem to have a penchant for obtaining more and better slaves (having even gone so far as to engineer the Black Orcs, an experiment that would later result in the Orcs becoming much stronger as a race overall when the Black Orcs joined them). They also trade weapons with the Ogres, the Ironskin tribe in particular, in return for manpower.
Religion
Hashut is a bull-deity who demands blood sacrifices from his followers. He is worshipped by Chaos Dwarf sorcerors on the summits of the mighty ziggurats erected in his name. At the temple of Hashut in Zharr Naggrund the Chaos Dwarfs have created a particularly gruesome way of sacrific. They herd their victims into the hollow belly of large statue made of bronze which they then heat with great fires lit under the belly. As the victims burn to death, their cries are funnelled up the throat of the statue. Here they are changed by the reverbarations of the metal until they sound like the braying of a bull, the louder the braying, the most pleased it is assumed the bull-god Hushut is with his offering.
Magic
The Chaos Dwarfs, unlike the Dwarfs, are able sorcerers. They wield Dark Magic.
Military
Chaos Dwarf armies are often composed of relatively few Dwarfs, the majority of their armies being compromised of various types of Hobgoblins, Orcs and Goblins, with the occasional unit of Dwarf or Bull Centaur thrown in to keep the Greenskins in line. As with their non-corrupted cousins, Chaos Dwarfs make extnsive use of black powder weapons in the field. These are principally the in form of the blunderbuss, the death rocket and the earthshaker cannon.
