Flint dwarves' main aetherial powers are their ability to see in the dark, their ability to sense caves, and their skills at mining and crafting stone. Working in the earth and stone near sources of earthpower can empower them further, and some of the older miners often have other powers, including moving through stone, crystal shaping, and greater earthshaping powers.

All dwarves are known for their steady feet, their inborn toughness, and their shrewdness.

Flint dwarves live in stone-carved underground cities fueled by deep mines of every kind. They are shapers of stone and earth and they view it as sacred.

Dwarven society is dominated by a rigid bureaucracy that controls who owns which mining rights. Mining rights are central to many of their political disagreements, and a major part of their ongoing internal conflicts. The major facets of dwarven political life are the unions (representing the workers), the temples (representing the faithful), the traders (representing merchants and financial organizations), and the thanesrakh (split between the elected officials and those born to the nobility). The bureaucracy controls what percentage of each mine is controlled by each of these, and all mines are split between them.

The bureaucracy is composed mostly of elders who have retired from mining or other crafts, those elected to it, nobles who have been given the positions, traders who have bought them, and specially appointed faithful. Depending on the numbers represented in the bureaucracy, percentages of ownership change.

Flint dwarven families tend to be clans of many generations living together at once. The eldest members have joint authority, and children are cared for mostly by their parents, who train them in the family occupations, usually some sort of craft. Those who prove able are sent to special schools. Those who are not must test into other crafts, enter the temples, or take up a job as a laborer, all of which are considered proud professions.

Some families put more stock in their family traditions than others. Noble families tend to be the least tradition-bound when it comes to occupation but the most when it comes to social matters. Faith families adhere closely to family traditions and social traditions. Trades families are very loose on both social and family traditions, and crafts and labor families vary individually.

Flint dwarves have many legends about the depths of the world. Their nations sprawl from the Lithosphere down to Barathrum, and still much of the subterranean world remains unknown to them. These legends about the wonders and dangers of the subterranean world are the upper world's main source for information about the underground realms because most other beings from below do not interact with the surface as often as dwarves.