Greatly saddened by the death of their father, the dwarves mourned and explored the new mountains in a hopeless search for their weakened father. This period of time is known as the 'era of peace' in dwarven legend, an era that ended upon the return of a wounded Ymir, who had been slayed by the human gods of Odin, Villi and Vé, and when he collapsed, his body shattered into a million pieces, each of them turning into the very first mountains. Eventually, as they met the other beings that shared this world with them, the dwarves opened up their land. Ymir then gifted the land of Jotunheim to his sons, a land that the dwarves cared for a millennia. Out of the ground came the very first dwarves, from the soil was born a dwarf of incredible muscle and tanned skin from the stone underneath the soil came the tallest of the dwarves with skin as white as marble and from the iron pockets that sat within were born the dwarves with a skin as black as obsidian their birth carving a massive ravine within the land of Jotunheim. According to ancient dwarven legend, the dwarves were the first beings to set foot upon Jotunheim when the giant Ymir, father of all giants, blessed the soil with a drop of his own blood.

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