Dwarves

Dwarves (小人族) are a tribe in the One Piece world. They have not been explained deeply yet, but are mentioned in the list of slave prices Duval gives Sanji. They sell for 700,000 as slaves.

They were first seen in Green Bit when Robin and Usopp were exploring the forest at the northern part of the island off the coast of Dressrosa, they discovered a tribe of dwarves living on the island.

Appearance
Dwarves are an extremely small sentient race. In comparison to an average sized human, their difference in height is approximately the same as that between a human and a giant. They are mostly human in shape, apart from having a thick fluffy tail and chibi-like proportions. All of them also has pointy noses.

Biology
Dwarves possess great strength, with a single dwarf being able to easily destroy a building despite their small size. They are very agile, enough for them to disappear in a blink of a second, making normal people impossible to see them. They are known as great cultivators as they stated that they can cultivate any plant, as evidenced by the abundance of plantlife on Green Bit. Dwarves are shown to be extremely gullible and trusting.

Despite their size, they are still just another race of "humans", they can feel pain like any other human race like twisting an ankle.

Inter-species Relationships
The dwarves are valued as slaves by normal humans considering the standard price for a dwarves is 700,000.

Dwarves refer to humans as "Big Humans" (大人間) and casually ask them whether they are good or bad and as a tradition a good human can prove him/herselves by either giving up their weapons or being stripped of all their possessions. Dwarves are very careful not to be seen by any humans as they tried to kill anyone who sees them unless they promise not to tell anyone of their existence. They are also gullible to anything humans say to them, making them easily fooled.

They are behind Dressrosa's belief in fairies and accept the country's offerings to them.

Trivia

 * In real world folkore (especially in Scandinavian and other Germanic cultures), dwarves are a race of beings usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking.
 * The tribe is foreshadowed in the flashback of Noland's past. During one of his sessions recalling his adventures in the Grand Line, he mentions visiting a land of midgets.
 * The first encounter between the dwarves and Nico Robin resembles the first encounter between Lemuel Gulliver and the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels.

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