Daggda is somewhat slender in build for a dwarf, which still looks short, stout and hardy to non-dwarven eyes. Dark black eyes, course black hair, and a neatly-groomed beard plaited in a single braid frame a face that is remarkably fair and smooth, especially for a dwarf. The face of this young dwarven warrior is also much more jovial than the usual description of dour, mean-spirited dwarves would indicate, naturally exuding an air of likeability and youth.

Daggda is young, only 57 years old, which may account for a height of only four feet, slightly less than that of most dwarves. Daggda is dressed in a dark red-brown cloak that covers plain-looking, if meticulously-constructed chain mail, with breeches and soft walking boots in matching colors of red-and brown. A warhammer is slung from a girdle ornamented with white anvils, and around the dwarf's neck is a priestly symbol of two metals, a black iron warhammer superimposed upon a silver anvil. A footman's pick, also plain but well-crafted, doubles as a walking stick for this fair dwarf with the smiling black eyes.

Daggda Trueforger is descended from a long line of miners and metalworkers from Underhome in the Great Rift. Daggda's family is one of a few from the great bloodline of Hizak, the dwarf who first discovered the strange white metal, hizagkuur. It is believed that Hizak also forged the gates that guard the Dwarfhome of the Great Rift, but the secrets of forging the hizagkuur have since been fiercely guarded by the priests of Moradin the All-Forger.

Daggda's love for shaping metal under the anvil was greater than even that of Daggda's father, Grim the Orc-Mauler, Blood of Hizak. Daggda grew up guarding the ramparts of Underhome, as all of the blood of Hizak have had the honor of doing since the Hizagkuur Gates were built. Still, love of the forge and wonder at the magnificent white gates of Hizak led Daggda to join the priesthood of the smith god Moradin, where the secrets of Hizagkuur were supposedly kept. Despite this love of working metal, only one priest was willing to take Daggda as an apprentice, Teiwaz the Elder, for you see, Daggda is a female dwarf!  That is why her priesthood was opposed by the high priests of Moradin, traditionally an all-male order.

Taiwaz the Elder is a member of the council of high priests and righteous old dwarf of uncounted years. He took the young dwarf under his wing, and trained Daggda well in the history of Moradin, Flame of the Eternal Forge, Keeper of the Mysteries of the Anvil and Hammer. Still, the other priests greatly resented Teiwaz's training of Daggda, especially after they had refused to do so. After a council of the high priests one night, Teiwaz told Daggda that there was at last a way to gain the acceptance of the other priests- a quest had been selected.

Teiwaz told Daggda a great secret: the Priests of Moradin did not jealously guard the secrets to forging hizagkuur; they had been lost with the death of Hizak's great-grandson hundreds of years ago. But because the mining of the unique white metal was the center of the culture of the dwarves of the Great Rift, the secret had been kept within the priesthood. Daggda was told to go up to the outside world, beyond the humans who traded with dwarves at the edge of the Great Rift. Only there would the young priest and warrior of Moradin would be able to seek out the secrets of the metal among the other Dwarven nations, and among those sons of men, wizards and alchemists, who had long ago stolen the secrets of its forging.