King-in-the-Earth

The oldest legends of dwarven-kind tell of a time when the dwarves did not know the outside world; when the only sunlight they saw was that which ocasionally shone into the underground through rifts in the mountain rock. In those days, the dwarves were united into a single clan, the Dvergar, who claimed to be the descendants of Buri, the Earthen Father.

The Dvergar lived in the underground tunnels for many ages; the outside world was seen as a mystical realm, and the creatures which sometimes came from there were held as sacred. But the world of the Dvergar was revolutionized in the days of Moradin. He was the one dwarf who defied tradition and emerged into the outside world; followed by his sons Motsoghnir and Durin, he wandered the new world, expanding the knowledge of his people like none of his predecessors had done.

But the contact with the people of the surface world was not a good experience for the Dvergar, at first. Unused as they were to dealing with different cultures and ways of thinking, they had dire disagreements with other nations - the first and most serious of them with the elves. However, Moradin managed to tame his people's belligerence and make peaceful ties with elves, drakes and saurians.

According to legend, it was around that time, after the end of the first war with the elves, that Moradin appeared wielding the Hammer of Buri for the first time. There is no consensus about how he forged it, only that the oldest runes ever found are those that can still be seen carved on the hammer's surface.

For his power and for his people's mastery of the underground realm, Moradin became known as the King-in-the-Earth, who ruled from beneath the mountains from the bowels of Irdya.

Special Notes: This unit has magical attacks, which always have a high chance of hitting an opponent.When this attack is used, all units adjacent to the target take 75% of the damage, allies included, and even those behind them will take a few if the damage is sufficiently high.When this attack is used, the attacker can hurt a unit behind his primary target. Damage dealt to the second target equals to 2/3 of raw firepower.Adjacent units of level 5 or below from this side receive a +30% bonus to all resistances (up to a maximum of 70%).A unit cared for by this healer may heal up to 10 HP per turn, or stop poison from taking effect for that turn.
A poisoned unit cannot be cured of its poison by a healer, and must seek the care of a village or a unit that can cure. This unit is able to slow its enemies, halving their movement speed and attack damage until they end a turn.

Information

Attacks (damage × count)

	Hammer of Buri melee	30 × 2 impact	explosive magical
	Runa Isaz ranged	20 × 2 cold	magical slows
	Runa Sowilo ranged	15 × 4 fire	magical
	Runa Ansuz ranged	25 × 2 arcane	magical beam attack only
	Buri's Thunderstrike ranged	60 × 1 fire	explosive magical attack only

Resistances

	blade	50%			pierce	50%
	impact	50%			fire	10%
	cold	10%			arcane	20%