Role

Chapter 1

The Grummeltuff family is one, not of usual dwarven heritage. Gramps, as we
revere our elders, the first Grummeltuff was a miner, one of great renown in
the Dwarven kingdom of Akan. He could pick and hammer like no dwarf before,
and some say, no dwarf since. He dug so deep, he heard the song of the
Earth, He set down his pick and laid his hammer down, and followed the cracks
and crevices even deeper. Crazy, is what all the other dwarfs called it.

He made his home there, far beneath the deepest mines of Akan, some even say
deeper than the Underdark itself. He brought his wife there, and his
extended family, promising their souls to be nourished from the Earth,
herself.

As with many great dwarven excursions, the Earth chose to keep her children.
A great quake shook the tunnels of Grummelhall, and cut their tunnels to the
surface. Severing their ties to their food and forage, years passed, with
only mushrooms and the rock itself to support these dwarfs. But as they grew
weak in body, the Song of the Earth rung true in their souls. Generations
passed to feed from the Earth this way, until the last of them, Bilgritik was
alone within the Earth.

It was this last son of Grummeltuff who the Earth held deep in her bosom, and
decided released to bear witness to the Song of the Earth.