Editing Chaos Dwarfs (section)

==[[Total War: WARHAMMER]]==
[[Image:Dawi_Zharr_Artillery_Crew.jpg|thumb|right|Chaos Dwarfs in their (small) initial appearance as infernal artillery crews.]]
As of April 14th, 2023, Chaos Dwarfs are now a playable race in ''Total Warhammer III'' via their DLC, ''Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs''... and '''boy''' has it been a long, strange trip to get there, taking almost as long as a rework for the Warriors of Chaos. 

When the first game came out, they weren't added as a faction, though a group of Chaos Dwarfs served as the artillery crew for the Hellcannon unit found in the Chaos Warriors' roster. No hats, but lots of sausage beards and some horns. They were also mentioned during the second quest battle for Grimgor Ironhide's Blood-Forged Armour -- some Northman traded with them for goods, his armour included, and he wants to take it from them.

The Dawi Zharr remained sidelined throughout the release of all three games, with the third game's main factions on release day being the Daemons of Chaos (divided up into separate races for each of the four Dark Gods and one for Chaos Undivided), Kislev and Grand Cathay (!), with the [[Ogre Kingdoms]] as the pre-order race, but the Dark Lands were part of the Campaign map even at launch, though naturally filled with space-filler Greenskins and Skaven, which boded very well for their later inclusion. 

A quote was later found in a loading screen in the game, all but confirming the Chaos Dwarfs as one of if not the first major piece of DLC in the game. Datamined voicelines of the Advisor speaking to Chaos Dwarf LLs confirmed it outright.

When the Immortal Empires release trailer dropped, we saw a teaser at the end featuring a ton of greenskins slaving away in an underground mine/foundry while several hobgoblins lurked about and a darkly-dressed Dwarf chuckled malevolently. 

Despite this, CA declined to confirm outright that the Chaos Dwarfs were coming, leaving the fans to play the guesing game for something they already knew the answer to until March 14th when the trailer finally dropped.

Finally, they were released in 2023, and ho boy, they are super powerful. Chaos Dwarfs with Blunderbusses can withstand charges of Skullcrushers, Dreadquakes wipe out high-tier infantry, and lord sniping has never been easier than with the Deathshrieker. While they are limited early in the game by a maximum number of chorf units you can field (not in a single army, but in the entire campaign), once you reach the highest tiers and dump all of your spacefiller hobgoblin slaves, you are going to steamroll the map. As for what exactly they are up to, the Chaos Dwarfs found some special red liquid called the "blood of Hashut" that is leaking out of Hashut’s prison realm. The reason it’s important is that it’s basically a kind of super concentrated dark magic suspiciously like that Varanite crap Morathi used to become a goddess in Age of Sigmar. Now obviously potential access to a material that could let them cast dark magic easily and incinerate enemy cities in one go is already reason enough to pursue this stuff… but their desire to get more of it becomes that much more important to them after some research revealed they could use this stuff to perform a demonic blood pact that would allow them to transfer the petrification curse they all suffer to ANYONE else, and thus let the Chaos Dwarfs use Dark Magic without any repercussions. Once that discovery was made the Chaos Dwarfs doubled down on getting as much of this stuff as possible, leading to the events of the campaign which sees them trying to capture and then corrupt some regular Dwarf artifacts to serve as power sources for a giant demonic drill designed to punch a huge freaking hole into Hashut’s realm. Needless to say the order-aligned Dwarfs are less than pleased by this development and are eager to put a stop to their eastern cousins' plans.

The Chaos Dwarfs have since been a strong race with a versatile play-style. Despite many angry naysayers in years past claiming Chaos Dwarfs would never be included, they have received a fleshed out implementation in the most popular Warhammer Fantasy video game adaptation to date.

[[File:Chaos Dwarf Hint.png|thumb|right|''Happy short man noises'']]