i would like to add a contingent of duergar to my cd army but i cant think up good fluff for them being in the world of whfb.
help would be much appreiciated any fluff you think of will be far better than what had in mind so go ahead. :cheers
in case you didnt know duergar are a race of evil gray skinned dwarfs from dungeons and dragons. heres some fluff i found online.
Like their dwarven brethren, duergar are typically stocky figures, though beyond this there are many differences. Both male and female duergar are typically bald, with females also lacking the capacity to grow facial hair.[1] When they are not bald, however, duergar grow spiny quills like those of a porcupine rather than typical hair, both along their scalp and in their beards, which they can shoot at their enemies.
A mutant strain? A slave caste? A clan/group/whatever from a different place in the world? Renegade Dwarfs who have been Marked by some Chaos entity in a way that alters their appearance?
Hm yep,they could be just a kind of another clan which develloped parallel to the Dawi-Zharr… the Chaosdwarfs lived on the surface and dug mines, the Duergar or whatever you want to call them in the Warhammer world lived seperated in a Dungeon deep under the Plains of Zharr. A couple of thousands years they came back on the surface an made allies with the CDs. Like the Humans in GorkaMorka (are they Digganobs or something in English?) :hat off
Chaos Dwarfs ARE Duegar in every way that is important.
In fact, there is a lot more similarity there than between WarHammer and D&D Dark Elves, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Orcs, Ogres, Centaurs, Satyrs, Dryads and so forth.
Really, the only races that transfer over fairly directly are human, Halflings, High Elf, Dwarf and (to a reasonably extent) Wood Elf.
Elephant Ogres, Rakahasha, Vanara and Naga are all imaginably too elite to use as slaves. I can’t think of any other races that would be found in an Indian Mythical setting.
A slave race … a possible one could be lizardmen (there could be different ones like the greenskins), Drider (spider+ … hybrids), perhaps a kind of “dungeon crawler” I think of inhabitants of the underworld who remembers me of 40K Genestealer/the mutated Vampires from Blade (2nd Film) - I think I like mostly the last ones! Wild, stupid animal like creatures who can “walk” on the ground, the walls and the ceilings … brutal and always hungry!