这些粗壮族裔曾统治着广阔的帝国，这些帝国在费伦的地表和地下蔓延，就像形成他们的大地一样经久不衰。经过几个世纪的衰落，大多数矮人的王国都消失了，但是他们的劳动成果不受时间流逝的限制，依然存在着。近些年来，雷鸣祝福（the Thunder Blessing）已经引发了矮人的复兴，也许有一天会使粗壮族裔恢复往日的荣耀。
As enduring as the earth from which they were shaped, the Stout Folk once ruled vast empires that sprawled on and beneath the surface of Faerun. After centuries of decline, most dwarven kingdoms are gone, but the fruits of their labors survive, unbowed by the passage of time. In recent years, the Thunder Blessing has sparked a dwarven renaissance that might one day restore the Stout Folk to their former glory.
种族史Racial History
大多数矮人以外的学者认为，粗壮族裔是一个外来种族，而不是艾伯尔-托瑞尔的土著，他们在很久以前就来到这里，与费伦的大地和岩石融为一体。然而，矮人群体的种族记忆认为，他们的祖先是从世界的心脏中诞生出来的，他们是由铁和秘银在灵魂熔炉中，由他们的父神的锤子锻造而成，然后由摩拉丁的呼吸赋予生命。在最古老的神话中，第一个矮人从世界的核心向上的山顶进发，通过力量、技能和武力克服了沿途的许多危险。
Most nondwarven scholars believe that the Stout Folk are an interloper race, not native to Abeir-Toril, who arrived so long ago that they have become one with the earth and stone of Faerun. However, the collective dwarven racial memory holds that their ancestors sprang fully formed from the heart of the world itself, fashioned of iron and mithral in the Soulforge, shaped by the All-Father’s hammer, and then given life by the breath of Moradin. The oldest myths claim that the first dwarves fought their way up from the world’s core to the mountains above, overcoming many dangers along the way through strength, skill, and force of arms.
第一个矮人聚居地出现在被称为叶赫玛尔的大山脉中，它位于费伦、卡拉-图和扎卡拉三大洲的交界处。从那里开始，最早的矮人移居到这三个地方。那些来到费伦的人在向西扩张之前定居在现代的参法尔的地下，沿途建立了无数的聚居地。这次大迁徙中有一个孤立的矮人分支定居在诺弗拉龙的孤立山峰中，最终被称为北极矮人。
The first dwarven settlements appeared in the great mountain range known as the Yehimal, which lies at the juncture of the three great continents of Faerun, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara. From there, the earliest dwarves migrated into all three lands. Those who came to Faerun settled beneath modern-day Semphar before spreading westward, founding innumerable settlements along the way. One isolated branch of this great migration settled amid the isolated peaks of the Novularond, and eventually became known as the arctic dwarves.
费伦矮人的第一个伟大王国建立在夏亚（Shaar.）地下深处的贝瑞丹（Bhaerynden）大洞穴中。贝瑞丹的矮人第一次大分裂始于一万两千多年前，当时圣骑士塔瓦克·沙纳特（Taark Shanat）领导了一次大规模的向西迁徙。这些移民最终被称为盾牌矮人，并在安姆（Amn）、伊尔卡扎（Erlkazar）、泰瑟尔（Tethyr）、卡林珊（Calimshan）、群狮之地（the Land of Lions）以及蒸汽湖（the Lake of Steam）土地之下建立了伟大的沙纳塔（Shanatar）帝国。从他们的数量来看，杜马松（Dumathoin）创造了切岩矮人，他们进入了地底深处，如今仅剩下传说。同时，在精灵王冠战争和黑暗精灵的大沉降之后，贝瑞丹落入了卓尔之手，费伦南部的矮人被迫逃亡散落。
The first great kingdom of the dwarves of Faerun was centered in the great cavern of Bhaerynden deep beneath the Shaar. The first great schism of the dwarves of Bhaerynden began more than twelve thousand years ago when Taark Shanat the Crusader led a great westward migration. These emigrants eventually became known as shield dwarves and established the great empire of Shanatar beneath the lands of Amn, Tethyr, Calimshan, and the Lake of Steam. From their number, Dumathoin created the urdunnir, who moved into the depths and became creatures of legend. Meanwhile, Bhaerynden fell to the drow after the elven Crown Wars and the descent of the dark elves, and the dwarves of southern Faerun were driven into exile.
在随后的几千年里，粗壮族裔出现了新的分裂。深藏在光耀平原下方的奥多（Oryndoll）的吸灵怪，奴役了杜尔加家族的盾牌矮人。他们的后代摆脱了他们主人的非法奴役后，扩张到整个幽暗地域，被称为灰矮人。一些逃离贝瑞丹的矮人来到了楚尔特（Chult）的丛林，在那里他们放弃了建立地下的家园。这个孤立分支的成员最终被称为野矮人。在第一个卓尔精灵王国塔伦提瓦在内战中解体后，贝瑞丹的大洞穴坍塌，形成了大裂谷。那些重新定居在大裂谷周围深层洞穴的矮人最终被称为金矮人。随着沙纳塔的衰落，盾矮人向北迁移并在北地建立了伟大的王国，最终沿月海海岸向东迁移，进入费伦中北部的山脉。
In the millennia that followed, new divisions appeared among the Stout Folk. The mind flayers of Oryndoll, deep beneath the Shining Plains, enslaved the shield dwarves of Clan Duergar. Their descendants became known as gray dwarves after throwing off the shackles of their illithid masters and spreading throughout the Underdark. Some dwarves who fled Bhaerynden’s collapse reached the Jungles of Chult, where they abandoned their subterranean homes. Members of this isolated branch eventually became known as wild dwarves. After the first drow kingdom of Telantiwar tore itself apart in civil war, the great cavern of Bhaerynden collapsed to form the Great Rift. Those dwarves who resettled the caverns of the Deep Realm surrounding the Great Rift eventually became known as gold dwarves. As Shanatar declined, the shield dwarves migrated north to settle the great kingdoms of the North and eventually migrated eastward along the shores of the Moonsea and into the mountains of northcentral Faerun.
如今，矮人遍布费伦，然而在北地、在酷寒之地、大裂谷和幽暗地域的矮人密度最大。虽然矮人很容易被分为不同的亚种，具有不同的种族特征，但这些差异决不能反映矮人的多样性。许多文化、历史、政治和社会上的分歧仅仅存在于一个特定的矮人亚种之内。
oday, dwarves are found all across Faerun, although the greatest concentrations are found in the North, the Cold Lands, the Great Rift, and the Underdark. Although the Stout Folk are easily segregated into distinct subraces with distinct racial traits, such distinctions by no means reflect the entirety of dwarven diversity. Numerous cultural, historical, political, and social divisions remain even within the ranks of a specific dwarven subrace.
本章详细介绍了六个居住在费伦地表和地底的矮人亚种，他们的文化、语言、习性和宗教特征在该地的大部分地区占主导地位。
This chapter details six dwarven subraces dwelling above and below the surface of Faerun, whose cultural, linguistic, physical, and religious traits predominate in large regions of the land.