Faith of the Ancestors

The Dwarves follow their own unique religion called "The faith of the Ancestors’’ by outsiders, but known simply as "The faith’’within Dwarven walls.

They faith teaches that the universe came into existence from the eternal chaos. It was at the dawn of time that this chaos raged, and within it the powerful spirits of light and darkness fought each other eternally all across the immaterial abyss. Those spirits were immortal, they had no beginning and their sole purpose was to wage war. But fate brought about a change. The most powerful of all good spirits, known to dwarfs as Khardurin felt the need to break the cycle. From the pure nature of existence and his own will, on his own image, he forged the first material beings. Those were The Primogenitors, the first dwarves. With their help, he created the material realm: sky, stars, lands, seas and all that you see before you to this day. And so the world was created. But no plant or animal that lived on the earth had a soul, so the creation could not appreciate the gift of its own creation.

So the The Primogenitors and their god created the second generation of dwarves, and send them to earth. Khardurins brothers and sisters, the other spirits of light, were delighted when they saw his creation. So with his permission they created other races. Dwarves believe that those creators of the younger races were gods of other religions, Elvariad – father of Elvis, Amar – father of humans, and so on. So the Khardurin and the Primogenitors are piously worshiped wherever dwarves ever set their feet. As all other aspects of Dwarven society, organisation of the religion is based on the clan system. In smallest clans the clan’s patriarch is acting as a priest, while the biggest clans have specialized groups of clergy. But they all worship the Khardurin in very similar way.