Mountain Dwarves¶
Contested
Named in the open question Joraan or Jorawan: the 2014 Compendium makes the Joraan deep dwarves betrayed by the Duergar, the 2015 lore makes the Jorawan mountain-dwelling Bronzebeards. The newer reading governs below; the older is kept under Earlier accounts.
The Mountain Dwarves are the Longbeards, the Dwarves of the carved halls. "For mountain dwarves, beards are prized and beard length, ornamentation and braids are a show of culture, honor and good standing... Mountain dwarves live a life both above ground and below, carving vast halls into the mountains, while farming and ranching in the mountain meadows" (S384). They are the dwarves of the great kingdoms of the Age of Magic, and the dwarves who are gone: after the Redemption "the Mountain Dwarves have abandoned Terrun" and the "Mountain Dwarven Kingdoms" are listed among the races that are no more (S112).
Also called: Longbeards (S384, S387). The dwarves of Dru'Bazan in the Blue Mountains "are widely referred to as the ironbeards or the blue mountain dwarves (in less affectionate slang they are called grimbeards)" (S384).
Tholim¶
"The Tholim are otherwise known as the Firebeards, and they are considered to be the most scholarly and inquisitive of their people" (S387). In the Age of Magic they were a third of all dwarves, living in the south (S384), and with the Danari humans, the High Elves and the Wood Elves they people the Middle Empire at the heart of the Thyssal Empire (S387, S498).
Hadrin¶
"The Hadrin are otherwise known as the Ironbeards, and they are considered to be the most industrious and spartan of their people" (S387); the Compendium calls them "grim and industrious", the largest dwarven ethnicity at 41%, "North-west, scattered" (S384). The ironbeards of Dru'Bazan "are one of the principle suppliers of iron and steel" and have "numerous smiths capable of smelting the most complex Mithius ores" (S384).
Jorawan¶
"The Jorawan were otherwise known as the Bronzebeards, and they preferred deeper dwellings than most of their kin; they disliked the air and the sky. Now, they are extinct" (S387, S498).
Earlier accounts¶
The 2014 Compendium knows the extinct people as the Joraan, "Deep" dwarves rather than Longbeards: "The Joraan were the cousins of the Duergar, dwelling in deep halls, but without their cousin's tendency toward brutality and dark allies. Legend holds among the other dwarves that it was the Duergar that betrayed the Joraan and led them to their destruction" (S384, S372). The 2015 lore renames them Jorawan, moves them under the mountain dwarves, gives them the Bronzebeard name that the Compendium had given the hill-dwarf Aurelians, and says nothing of the Duergar or a betrayal (S387).
Gap
No source says which of the mountain dwarves abandoned Terrun, how, or where they went; nor what became of the Tholim of the Middle Empire in the Fifth Age.