The first warriors of the Children of Stone, armed with crude stone weapons.
Founded: c. 3,000 years before year zero (First Age), by Atlas — the first order in the world
Story
When Atlas commanded the Stone Talus, lightning struck it from the tip of Sky Spear and its fallen pieces became the proto-dwarves, who went to live inside the mountain. Because Atlas is a god of war, a sect of warriors with crude stone weapons arose among them: the Stone Defenders.
Now
Nothing has been heard of them since their founding. The dwarves themselves have since walled Kharag Duun twice over, raised armies, and taken Greenhaven.
Connections
- Dwarves — the people they defend
- Stone Talus — the avatar the dwarves came from
- Sky Spear — their mountain home
- Magisters — the dwarves’ later, evil ruling caste
Open: [?] whether the dwarven order wiped out by the Second Meteor at the First Fortress was this one or another; [?] their state now.