Qaardi

The Qaardi are the smallest race in Cheridith. They grow no taller than five and a half feet in height, but are typically extremely broad and muscular. They only have one working eye, typically the right one, while the other is just an empty socket which they cover with an eye patch. With no facial hair whatsoever, the rest of their body more than makes up for it, with only the palms of their hardened hands and feet having no hair. It is not uncommon to find them walking around with no clothes on, though the more civilized ones will usually wear trousers of some sort. Famous for their skill with working metal, the Qaardi are the ones responsible for the Tanvite Workshops which mint raw Tanvite ore into Tanvite coin. As a result, the Qaardi are usually very rich.

Characteristics
With fists half the size of their big heads and feet to rival that of Sasquatch, the Qaardi are not to be despised for their lack of stature. The only hair on their faces are the bush eyebrows that they all sport. Typically their eyes are deep-set and their noses flat and large, and they tend to have rather square jaws. Thick-shouldered, thick-necked, and thick-armed, Qaardians make excellent hard workers, though as a direct result of their riches, it's rare to find a Qaardian doing any manual work but mining.

A tricky matter is differentiating male Qaardians from their female counterparts. Male Qaardians usually sport a paunch of some sort, and it is this chief difference which will aid an unpracticed onlooker in differing genders, though this may then lead to the mistaken assumption that a pregnant female is a male. Apart from their stomachs, the eyebrows of male Qaardians tend to be slightly more refined which the males take good care of as they are a chief feature by which the females judge the male. The final way to differentiate them (apart from digging under all the hair for a substantial difference) is to listen closely to their voices. While both genders tend to have deep, baritone voices, the females tend to have a smoother voice, while the male's voice is typically coarser and gruffer.