Songs of the Nihilgar Dwarves

Songs of the Nihilgar Dwarves is an ethnographic collection, recorded not by the dwarves themselves — who see little reason to share what they live — but by the wandering elf-scholar Nethir Voidear.

The Nihilgar are a clan apart from their kin. Where most dwarves root their strength in gods, gold, or glory, the Nihilgar long ago turned from such illusions. Born from a betrayal of priests and kings, they embraced the void: no heavens, no afterlife, no eternal reward. Instead, they forged meaning in what could not betray them — stone, kin, and the bonds of shared labor. This is reflected in their banner – a white check on a black field: they are here and nothing else matters.

Their chants are heavy with this ethos. They do not sing of paradise or divine favor, but of enduring stone, of fallen kin, of hammers that ring against the silence of the deep. Their dirges, marches, work chants, and ceremonies are stripped to the bone — music bound only to the here and now.

The Nihilgar remind us that, in the face of nothingness, solidarity is everything.