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diff --git a/crawl-ref/docs/crawl_manual.txt b/crawl-ref/docs/crawl_manual.txt index aaa1d4d8d1..40aa2ad7eb 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/docs/crawl_manual.txt +++ b/crawl-ref/docs/crawl_manual.txt @@ -1492,6 +1492,31 @@ Thus, many a Mountain Dwarf started career as an elementalist in one of those schools. They advance in levels at a similar rate to Grey and Deep Elves. +Deep Dwarves +------------ +Deep Dwarves are a species who, unlike their Mountain Dwarf relatives, +never left their underground home. Living there for countless +generations made them pale and lose all ability to regenerate on their +own (nor are they receptive to outside effects which merely hasten +regeneration), as well as all ability to recover from losses to physical +attributes over time. On the other hand, Deep Dwarves have developed the +ability to instantly counteract small doses of damage. + +Given their lack of innate healing, few Deep Dwarves want for adventures +or even combat. Those who do usually bring a wand of healing, or rely on +divine assistance. + +Naturally, Deep Dwarves are quite adept with all arts of avoiding blows +and damage and ungifted in the ways of physical combat. Those who have +to defend their ground most often go with ranged combat (except for +bows, which are too unwieldy for them) or spells. Deep Dwarves are +highly spiritual beings, often portrayed as actual spirits by outsiders. +They are most at home with the magics of earth and death. + +Most unlike all other dwarves, they are pretty nimble. Deep Dwarves can +easily tinker with gadgets so as to recharge them. However, each time +they do so, they lose a bit of their magical essence. + Hill Orcs --------- Hill Orcs are Orcs from the upper world who, jealous of the riches which |