# Gyedah ##### GEE-ed-uh Duergar and Duerelth were the first (as they reckon it) races of dwarves. The Duergar Paragon Gyedah was a king, enlightened philosopher, scholar and ascetic. His wisdom opened his mind to the true force behind the universe, the one mind. This made him immortal, and is part of the reason the dwarves are so long lived, even to this day. Gyedah was the kind of person who freely gave to others that which he discovered himself, and had bequeathed his wisdom to all who would hear it. The disciples of his order used what they learned to ensure peace across the lands. They were known as the Knights of Gyedah. Gyedah himself became more and more reclusive over the decades, seeking to attain ever higher forms of wisdom, and becoming further detached from the mundane word. There were so few substantiated sightings of the Master Gyedah that conflicting stories circulated. Some claiming to have councils with the master, while others stated that he fully transcended reality, others that he died and would be reborn, and others that he had come to them as a spirit of true wisdom to continue his lessons. The rigorous austerity and mental discipline of the teachings of Gyedah were exceedingly difficult, but the power attained by them was undeniable. This power was alluring to many who did not have the temperament of a Knight of Gyedah. One such was Sethet. Sethet was a Duerelth who believed that his people lived in a state of subjugation by the Duergar, and that the Order of Gyedah existed to perpetuate this state of affairs, blithely telling the disenfranchised to simply "let go" of their grievances and join the natural harmony of the one mind. Sethet was powerful and persuasive, but ultimately found himself cast out of the order for his "disruptive" ideas and action. Sethet responded by gathering those rejected by the Gydeahan school and teaching his own philosophy and path to attuning to the one mind. Where the Gyedan spoke of detachment, logic and contemplation, the Sethet philosophy fostered the power of passion and community. It was much easier, more natural, and more effective to leverage your own ambition than to forswear it. The followers of Sethet set about liberating their people from the yoke of the Duergar (and thus Gyedahan) oppression, and setting themselves as Lords of Sethet. Seeing these Lords of Sethet as an existential danger to the Dwarven people, the Knights of Gyedah set about to liberate the Duerelth from the influence of Sethet and his followers. After a generation of conflict between the two, their dispute would ultimately be made irrelevant by the rise of the Cogetoi. With a much larger population and more powerful psionics at their disposal, the Cogetoi were an irresistible force. Desperate for an ally in their struggle for freedom, the Duerelth and their Sethet Lords allied with the Cogetoi, only to be betrayed and largely exterminated by the Cogetoi, fed into the formulation mass of the elan. The Duergar managed to escape this fate, as a large chunk of their population had taken up with the Duer'ahr, who had themselves become dominated by the Dragon Gods.