A dwarf standing under a huge stone vault For Witriss, Mother of Virtue and Strength, The One and The Other created a race that was fierce, strong, intelligent, moral and loyal to a fault. They would be masters of excellence and slave to none. Goodness and honesty would show in their every action. They would have an incredible ingenuity causing them to question the world around them and find answers beyond magic. They would come to distrust magic for this reason. Thus, it's use would decline amongst them as their engineering and technological skills increased. They would not, however, be so blind to dismiss magic in it's entirety, not, that is, until they had found the answers and alternatives to all the magic in the world. http://www.mernac.com/modules/mernac/story.php?id=367&aid=987