Durroch
Pelervar/Durroch
| Type | Elder power / ancestral presence |
|---|---|
| People | Dwarven |
| Titles | The Weight Beneath; The First Pressure; What The Mountain Knows |
| Domains | Stone · Debt · Craft · The Honest Account |
| Symbol | A vertical line bisected by a horizontal one — a seam in stone, or a ledger entry |
Durroch is not a god of creation — dwarves would find that presumptuous. He is the god of what was already there: the pressure that forms ore, the weight that makes stone true, the honest resistance of the world to being shaped carelessly. Dwarven theology holds that all things have a grain, and that craft is the act of understanding that grain rather than fighting it. Durroch does not reward effort; he rewards accuracy.
Dwarves find Vrael the most comprehensible of the human gods, and there is a quiet mutual respect between Quiet Ledger registrars and dwarven debt-keepers. Thren they find faintly ridiculous.
Their wound is the surface: at some point the greater part of dwarven civilisation moved upward, out of the deep places where Durroch's presence is strongest. Dwarven theology regards this as a slow apostasy no one decided to commit. The deep holds are still tended, by a dwindling number of keepers (see Mott Caridin and the Dwarven Holds). The Stonemasons Guild's doctrine of the True Seam is borrowed from Durroch's teaching.