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So much for the stuffy dwarf stereotype. :-) If ye ain't so emotionally repressed that you can't admit to not particularly feeling like hitting somebody in the face with an axe and then getting rip roaring drunk, what kind of dwarf are ye?
I got to thinking about the role of Dwarves in my campaign setting. They are the hardest race to do creative things with. They seem to always be axe-bearded drunken Scottish miners, and that's just what they do. In my setting, I plan for them to be curly bearded drunken Bavarian mountain men, because that concept just plain works, but it's still a bit too similar to what Dwarves usually are in fantasy. Interestingly enough, however, Dwarves are something that, it seems, most cultures have some version of in their folklore. Which gives me an idea. Given that myths about them are so universal, what if they were a race that exists worldwide, just like Humans (in my setting, demihuman races are usually from just one specific geographic region, and do not form their own nations), and that, as a result, has a wide variety of cultures and ethnicities? That right there gives more room for Dwarves to be interesting. We have those jolly drunken Bavarian mountain Dwarves, surly axe-beared Scandinavian miners who live underground, Anglo-Saxon, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish hill dwelling Halflings, salty Scottish fishermen and sailors who live along the northern coast and islands, and cosmopolitan French craftsmen, architects, and engineers with a penchant for designing things that are far more complicated than they need to be. That makes Dwarves start to get more interesting, and makes them into a much more versatile race. What I need is some examples of Dwarves from non-European folklore, especially East Asian and Native American Dwarves. I can handle the European ones with the ideas given above, but I don't know my American and Asian folklore well enough to find information that could inspire me.
who or what woudl wish to mate with a Kender????????????? >.> <.< I plead the fifth amendment.
Dinnae die on me, thread!
Dwarves get to have the best architecture. I like cool architecture :D
Spanky is banned for being the most evil thing in all of Ireland.
Spanky is banned for that creepy grin.
It is not that kind of height that they are talking about.And just how would you know anything about dwarven genitals, goblin? All right, I had my fun. Time to change the username before the mods get mad.
Dwarf in the Dwarven language means Tripod.It is not that kind of height that they are talking about.And just how would you know anything about dwarven genitals, goblin? ... You win the internet, creepy skull thing.
All of them.
It is not that kind of height that they are talking about. And just how would you know anything about dwarven genitals, goblin? |
