Grav

Gravs in generalGravs are an extremely squat humanoid race with powers over gravity. They average about 3 lengths tall and just as wide, although the upper caste, the Elite, is slightly thinner. They have small heads and are enormously dense, averaging some 600 stones. Their feet are clawed and elephantine.

Gravs on the planesDuring the recent past, a colony of Gravs found a pathway that led them to the Outer Planes. After sending an observation team around the Great Ring, it was determined that the best places for them to settle would be Mechanus and Bytopia, which they did. The Mechanus Gravs have found employment as traders in places where the gears meet each other at harsh angles, but it's Bytopia where they've really succeeded.

Gravs in BytopiaGravs dwell high in the Bytopian peaks, where they work as miners, but more and more are finding success as merchants. Their powers over gravity allow them to transport truly vast quantities of material from Dothion to Shurrock, or vice versa, far more than other races can with their balloons, spells, or flying beasts. They call their standard barge an Argosy, though spelljamming helms are hard to come by on the Twin Paradises. Argosies look like pieces of a mountain, flat on one side and pitted like a moon.

SocietyLiving on Bytopia has begun to create great changes in the Grav social order. They've had to open themselves up to other races far more than they ever thought they would. The rigid distinction between the Miner and Elite castes has begin to break down as Miners have left the colonies to become merchants, forcing the Elites to join in on the work if they want things to get done.

ArtGreat public works of sculpture are the primary means of artistic expression in Grav life, and it isn't uncommon for one of these monuments to be designed to float during ceremonies.

ReligionGravs traditionally worship the Elite, and the Elite worships themselves. This situation is changing, and many gravs have expressed an interest in the gnomish gods in particular.

AgricultureGravs trade for their vegetables and grain, but they have made one contribution to Bytopian farming that no one has managed before: they've tamed some ni'ath, which they use as guardians and hunting companions. They seem to be immune to ni'aths' special abilities.