Yarifadi

The dwarfs follow the Yarifadi /jɞsifadə/ religion based on stone. The religion believes that the all-mother, who lives under the bedrock, feeds us all in soul and when we die it is because the link that we formed with the all-mother has cut too deep in the rock and has linked with another, for this reason, if a hole is dug underneath someone’s body and a statue built of them then the spirit can continue living, an example of this is the statue of Yad that lives and watches over all dwarfs who must bow in his presence. Runes can be carved, or rather could be before the mages were killed in an attempt to reduce the force of magic by Obi Oyid /obə ojəd/ the first, now the art has been lost to all but the all-mother. The all-mother also had a second creation unlike the dwarfs; men, these men lived overground and worshiped the golden sea bird, a symbol of the all-father in the sky. The golden birds rarely come underground as the son of the all-mother and the all-father is the earth, who keeps them apart, forbidding them form being together in order to conserve Abat /abət/, the force which brings law and order into the world.