Clan Starforge

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Clan Starforge is an ancient clan of Dwarves who have been disregarded by most of dwarvenkind for the clan's long-standing obsession with distant stars and planets. This obsession distinguishes themselves from all other dwarven communities, because all other dwarves despise anything to do with the night sky, while they themselves are deeply fascinated by it. They also believe that they are the purest race of dwarves, and that their clan was descended from a single alien entity known as the "Star-mother", while all other dwarven clans are heavily mixed with that of outsiders to desperately avoid inbreeding, but the dwarves of Clan Starforge had no need for this, because there were enough of them in the land of Yib to avoid such consequences.

Starforge is extremely secretive, and speaking of their secrets to outsiders is extremely forbidden, on pain of disownment. They plan to one day colonize other planets, but for now they are only known for having extraordinary astral projection skills, though that isn't to say that they don't have plans for prototype astral vessels, or even working prototypes of spaceships themselves. They have very secretive alliances with the Esoteric Ferandorian Church, senior members of House Elesceth, The Most Ingenious Machinarium of Kebblos, and the True Faith of Ereii.

Ever since the first dwarven colonial fleets were sent to the uncharted frontiers of Treik-Skar, they have held many hidden vaults filled with knowledge concerning all things to do with space that the clan had collected in the span of centuries in the desolate crags of Ubrymur, hidden by myriad spells and barriers, along with beastly, magical and mechanical sentinels. Before they established their Treikish vaults, they used to hide them in the Gbachro mountains.

Every child of Clan Starforge is trained in the arts of astrology and astronomy since the age of 10, until they are 60 years old. It is said that even a child among them can name a hundred stars by heart. Even so, they will only speak of their knowledge to outsiders when in desperate times.

They do not build strongholds by themselves, instead they move into the fortresses of other dwarves, and instead of tunneling down, they tunnel up into the summit, where they build observatories and minarets dedicated to the worship of the gods of other terrestrial spheres. Some of them receive visions from them, of the lore of alien planets.