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In the game Conquest of Elysium, dwarves are social animals akin to ants and bees, wherein a queen lays eggs from which pop dwarven workers, beards and all. In game mechanics, instead of recruiting basic troops the way other nations do, you equip your dwarven workers with armor and weapons or, in a pinch, send out your workers to soak up arrows for you. Their mages, called Runesmiths, also are responsible for producing the elite dwarf units by enchanting their armor and weapons with elemental aspects (so you get flaming crossbows, stunning axes, and cold ballistae or what have you). Dwarven expansion is almost exclusively focused on mines, both because they produce the iron and gems that dwarves care about and because in larger mines, a special unit called a Councillor can found a new colony by placing a dwarf queen egg.

The game, in general, isn't that great and I wouldn't recommend it, but this particular race was pretty interesting and different.