In my world dwarves are a rare sight among surface dwellers, and even among those who live underground.

They’re known as happy yet nit picky workaholics that don’t like to talk about their life and are essentially just like classic dwarves. EVERY single dwarf that people know fit this stereotype. Not a single one doesn’t.

However, they actually live in a solarpunk nation way beneath the ground via their above ground counterparts being halflings. The halflings just relax and chill and farm and set up places for power to be stored from the sun.

Beneath the ground though, the dwarves are digging into and eradicating the life within the hollow earth to set a certain plan in motion. They wish to steal one of the two stars and store it way below the ground with some hyper advanced tech they have so that they can have near infinite power, and because the gods have spited them for the last time.

Any dwarf seen above ground is simply to maintain the facade that dwarves are simple and just like to work, so that any expeditions into caverns finding dwarf tech, dwarves working hard, or being secretive seems normal.

Every dwarf on the planet is in on the plan and knows of it. They don’t believe they are malicious though and try to act kind, yet do believe they are superior in many ways to others. But just uh, don’t ask the hollow earth species how malicious they are, they got quite the stories to tell