The Digger races live together in cooperative clans. All of the digger races have beard whiskers that provide proximity sensation and awareness for navigation underground. They find this very useful in close combat, especially in darkness. Male and female diggers all have beards. Their city folk find it fashionable to braid or shape their beards — or to hang or tie in trinkets — as a display of luxury and social power, but the braids and trinkets and quickly discarded when it’s time to fight.
Badg
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Most commonly based on badgers, although several Badg subraces are based on other mustelids
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very good sense of smell, large noses
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poor eyesight beyond 20ft, limited color vision (red/blue only), solid black eyes with hints of blue/purple/gold/brown
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racial advantage: shape and transform stone with fire and water
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(Sub races: fert, wesl, sken)
Rud
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Based on mice, rats, rabbits
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advantage: shape and transform metal and ore with fire and water
Gnem
- based on hedgehogs
- long noses, spiky hair, corrective lenses
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Racial talent: glass, gems, crystal…
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advanced: light, prisms, scrying, communication radio, illusions
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Mol?
- based on moles
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racial talent: shape and transform dirt, earth, soil, and mortar
- advanced skill: concrete