The Sons of Stone are unlike any other people in our World, for they alone neither age nor breed. Legends say that Dwarves are not born, but rather that their entire race was molded by the hand of Thurin the Strong, the truest of the All-Father's great Companions. Crafted from the Stone of the Earth, the Dwarves were charged by their maker to tend to the Great Fires that boil in the belly of the World. For most of recorded history the Dwarves worked in secret, delving vast halls, building wondrous citadels, and mastering the arts of mining and forgecraft. In the days since the Turning, the mysterious Dwarves have finally returned to the surface World, and the peoples of the World have come in contact with their mysterious ways for the first time in Ages. There are no females among their kind, and they produce no offspring. Dwarves do not seem to die of old age, and it may be that all of them have existed since the day of Creation. When a dwarf dies, the entire race mourns: for that is one less dwarf that our World shall ever know.
Son of Stoneたちが，わたしたちのWorldでどの他の俗衆とも似ないのは，かれら単独が加齢も繁殖もしないからである．諸伝説は，Dwarfたちが生まれるのではないが，かれらにおける種族の十全が，All-Fatherの 壮大なCompanionたちのなかで最も真摯な，Thurin the Strongの手によって成型されたと言う．
Stone of the Earthから細工されたDwarfたちは，かれらの作成者によって，Worldの中腹で煮える諸Great Fireの世話を課せられた．記録された歴史における大半のために，Dwarfたちは秘密に働き，広大な諸広間を掘り下げ，不可思議な諸城塞を建て，採鉱および炉細工の諸芸を修得した．Turningの時点からにおける日びに，神秘的なDwarfたちは最終的に屋根的なWorldに回帰し，Worldの諸俗衆は，諸Ageで初めてかれらがもつ神秘的な道筋との連絡に来た．
かれらの種類における間には雌がいなく，かれらは子孫を生産しない．Dwarfたちは老齢で死ななそうであり，Creationの日における時点から，かれらの全てが現存しているのかもれない．dwarfが死んだときに種族の十全が嘆く：Worldが神意でこれまで知っていた，dwarfの一人が少なくなるからである．
用語一覧
{A}: Age (時代) | All-Father (全父)
{C}: Companion (同胞神) | Creation (大創造)
{D}: Dwarf (ドワーフ)
{G}: Great Fire (壮大火)
{S}: Son of Stone (石の息子) | Stone of the Earth (地の石)
{T}: Thurin the Strong (トゥーリン［強神］) | Turning (大転回)
{W}: World (世界)
