Drawlloween 21

Today's prompt is Dwarf.....

This is a creature formerly known as a Dwarf. Better known as Dhvaras, Dwezgaz, Dwergaz, Dhole, or Bhole.

Long  ago during the Nephilim wars, one of the most powerful Nephilim was the  Jotun known as the mighty Ymir. Wielding the powerful frost of Ragnarok  through it's veins, a celestial power which allowed it to break down  reality and reset enemies as well as invoke endless fimbulwinter across  the world. Ymir led the nephilim as their leader for a long time,  uniting many of the giants together, and even bringing together the fire  giants along with the Jotun to face their foes. When the Accursed  Vermin fell from the sky and devastated the land, followed by the  falling of the sleeper of N'kai, Ymir created a massive fimbulwinter  which encompassed the planet, and battled these creatures with it's  armies, and was even joined by the Progenitor during this battle along  with the earliest kin of the Nephilim, Adam, Eve, Cain, and Able. The  battle was hard fought, however the creatures were made to retreat, but  the mighty Chixulub infested Ymir with it's burrowing young, they were  frozen and kept dormant by the power of ragnarok however.

Not  long after, the Heavenly ones, a group of gods of Urth, breeched the  dimensions to lay claim to the lands of Earth, and clashed with Ymir and  his army. Though the battle was great, eventually Odin felled the  mighty giant and many of his Jotun.

In  the festering wounds of Ymir as he lie dying, The young of Chixulub  began to thaw and feed on the wavering cosmic power of ragnarok and on  the blood of the celestials. These flesh eating worms known as the  Dhvaras gathered power from the giant and grew faces to scream in  anguish as it once did. They feasted and learned of the power of the  universe, growing intelligent and learning to steal names from Ragnarok,  that which resets. These worms, granted a new godlike strength from  feeding on the dead titan scattered into the planet, to rest and feed,  burrowing deep into the world and sleeping, but hollowing out large  portions of the planet as their creator had done. They hibernated for  many years, and upon being awakened found humans had claimed the planet  and were at war with the Fae. The Dhvaras began to clash with either  side within the war, claiming the planet for themselves and their  father, the leaping nightmare of the crater.

The  Dhvaras would wield minor powers of ragnarok, allowing them minor  creation, but also the ability to breathe a cold wind that would flay  flesh and age it 1,000 years, or reduce it to sperm and eggs, all at  once and everywhere on a creature, causing them to wither to old age and  regress to childhood in a single breath. They possessed great  intelligence, and extreme speed, able to burrow swiftly into the planet  and reach another continent in a matter of hours. They also possessed  mastery over Earth and they could consume the dirt and minerals and  transform them into other materials, while also emitting a nuclear  radiation which made creatures around them wither and die. They captured  humans and fae alike, however the radiation would transform them, or  kill them, and so the Dhvaras set out to create a servitor race to  follow them and work within the planet, mining minerals, gems, and  excavating the body of their creator. These creatures were first created  through imbuing their own flesh with the power of the ragnarok and  binding them to the human or fae slaves, creating a race of hunched,  tentacled and nigh faceless things that would grunt and chant. They  could dig and were quite powerful to also use as soldiers, however their  base nature would occasionally rush through them and cause them to act  out, or their bodies would not completely become immune to the radiation  and they would mutate into fleshy lumps. They would also require  sustenance through blood and flesh. These creatures, dubbed Dweorg or  Dvergr, were used for some time, until the Dhvaras created a new race,  born of the hewn stone and forged of ragnarok, these would resemble the  humans and would be crafted of the stone themselves, squat and powerful,  but they would be slave workers for the Dhvaras.

These  new creations aided the Dhvaras in conquering much of the underground  and they pushed against the creatures above with their armies of stone  servitors and their Dweorg. The ability to wield steel made the fae weak  to their attacks, and so they planned a counter attack against the  Dhvaras. The Gnomes, masters of the earth, infiltrated the ranks of the  Dhvara, and were successful in stealing their name, causing them to be  Dhvara now, where before they were called Dwarves. They granted the race  name to the un named servitor race crafted by them and in gaining their  name, they gained freedom by the hands of the Fae, and so the stony  humanoid creatures now known as Dwarves joined the Fae in their battle  against man, a great and powerful foe as the dwarves possess no weakness  to iron that the faries have...

Though  the Dhvaras had their names stolen and were weakened, they were called  by many other names around the world, and so they still possessed a  sense of power among them. Their servitors, the Dweorg still fight for  them, and though many of the Dhvara have gone into hibernation or  escaped to the Dreamlands or Urth in search of a way to recover their  true names, the Dweorg remain...

Other  creatures ally themselves with the Dhvara, such as those who gather the  power of the worm that walks. Though they may also be in opposition to  the Dhvara as they often clash with the gutworms of the meat mother,  treating eachother as an invasive species or a competitor species....