Cobolts

The Cobolts are a race of former slaves, brought to Jaldapor in ancient times by the invading army of the Dwarfs.

Description
The Cobolts are a diminutive people, somewhat smaller than the Hinfallah, averaging about three feet in height. Of reptillian ancestry, they have dog-like snouts, and ivory (actually bone) horns (some rare members have two pair of horns, these are called "crowned" and are believed to be treated with especial reverence). Bipedial, they walk digitigrade and posses superior balance due to their large, thick tails. In bone structure they somewhat more resemble upright birds than they do anything else. Of especial note is their skin of varrying blueish hue, ranging from a very bright almost robin's egg blue to a more metallic variety.

Culture and History
The Coboltish people are perhaps the most advanced and dedicated miners known to Hinfallah society, and possibly the world. Salt, ore, precious metals and gemstones, as well as rare veins of dangerous 'glowstone' (which holds a strange fascination for them) are all regularly eiked out of the stone of the world. A gift for tool use enables this culture, which is not known (to outsiders) to make use of magic in the manner of men and other races.