The Dweghom are what remains of the Dwarves, themselves a creation of the dragons of old. To escape servitude under their creators those that become the Dweghom traded their souls to become the patrons of War itself. Using it to slaughter the Dwarves who did not make this transition, and destroy their former masters. Dweghom are hosts to power they were never meant to have, and it eats away at them. They have been enhanced with great elemental prowess, fire and steel, but at a massive price, clad in prosthetics, the Dweghom fight this degeneration or embrace it, forming the different factions of their society. Dweghom society is marked by its proclivity towards conflict to the point where it’s fundamental to their system of Aghm, vaguely translated to “worth” Aghm is forefront in the mind of every Dweghom.
The Dweghom wrested their freedom from their creators, the Dragons, even as they shattered War’s prison and unleashed that ancient scourge upon Ea. Blessed with the primordial power of their new patron and infused with Elemental Earth and Fire, the Dweghom were all but unstoppable, shattering the world and permanently ending the reign of Dragons. However, their very strength became their weakness as War’s patronage came at a price of endless conflict and the very elemental power they armed themselves with threatened to overwhelm them. Even in this, Dweghom society is at odds with itself: one faction embracing this powerful curse as the ultimate price for their freedom while others work tirelessly to overcome it.