Making a eunuch Dwarf, would love suggestions


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Making a Dwarf eunuch, likely used as a guard for women. Presumably in Jalmarey or a similar setting. He'll be a monk, likely master of many styles, or flowing monk. I'll also probably dip into the build-a-monk-workshop in Ultimate Magic.

Anyways I'm thinking of more physical appearance. I've read up, and unlike the media belief eunuch do not tend to be hairless. Actually they are quite the opposite, they tend to never go bald. Mostly due to the lack of hormones that cause male baldness.

Now that doesn't change cultural belief's. I would figure he was bought and raised as a slave. Eventually he would get away, not escape, likely the lord that owned him would either be killed or be shamed and his holdings stripped. His new owner, likely prejudice of Dwarves for being a non-pretty race, would dismiss him.

How would other dwarves see him? I figure he would keep his beard trimmed short, never growing much longer than an adolescent. He likely would not share much with his race and be treated as a child when he is around them.

Any thoughts?


I'd make him bald as an egg and strong and fat. Make up a nice monk style with lot of grappling and perhaps the large temple sword.

I've been tinkering with an Osirian dwarf monk from the Ouat (bodyguards for wizards).

Also see this thread about monk styles .

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I like this thread because it's the polar opposite of the slutty elf thread.

I think fat bald eunuchs in fantasy is overdone.
I don't see why he would be treated as a child. I can see him being treated like an outsider, but not mentally immature.

Eunuchs were highly prized by leaders as they had lost their male hunger, be it sexual or material. They were loyal and trustworthy. It seems to me that a Eunuch monk would have next to no greed. His ambition would be something else entirely. He's not going to leave any children, no clan, but his legacy could be something else. A political movement. Or an adopted clan. Dwarves think about their lasting legacy. Everything's built in stone. What would a eunuch monk want as his legacy? Maybe he wants to lay down his life to recapture a Sky Citadel? Maybe he wants to found a Dwarf monk monastery?

If you were a Dwarven Lord with a high number of wives or mistresses, and a huge hoard of gold stashed somewhere, wouldn't you want a powerful eunuch as the best choice for a clan guard, or a keep guard. Someone who protects the women and is able to deal with/or be overlooked by Dwarven politics.

So I think your character would have a lot of job offers from some of the more powerful Dwarves. He would likely choose based on the philosophical outlook of the Lord he likes best.

I see him as a powerfully built dwarf with a thick head of perfectly groomed brown hair, set in simple brass rings. Most of his body is pure. His right arm is absolutely covered in crude, poorly rendered, scarred tattoos and brands designating ownership of him as 'property'.

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No beard, that would mark him as an outsider to most dwarves


Andrew R wrote:
No beard, that would mark him as an outsider to most dwarves

Even if it was a stylish goatee?

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Harrison wrote:
Andrew R wrote:
No beard, that would mark him as an outsider to most dwarves
Even if it was a stylish goatee?

eunuchs lack facial/body hair


Just go nuts.

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Increase their base speed to 30 ft.


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I saw the "No Beard" in my head as well. Otherwise, give him plenty of hair. But that would mark him out as strange, but still not fall into the "Bald/Fat" eunuch trope. But a short beard would work as well.

I think KestlerGunner has some brilliant input here and if it were me I would run with some of that.

I *DO NOT* share the idea that he would be looked upon as a child. I see dwarves with their long lives and long histories as being grudgy, and hateful, and somber about their misfortunes and the misfortunes of their race. They might become very quiet around him, or (especially if he is the last of his bloodline) pity him, or drink to him, as a kind of lamentable -- kind of like a good man who you mourn as being already dead... So among dwarfs that didn't know him, they might pity him, or try to sympathetically hate for you... and those that knew you might look at you as a kind of living martyr -- that if you're doing good for dwarves or the world in general, it's like the tales and drinking songs you sing of dwarf heroes that are already gone -- only you're not officially dead -- You're still among the living, but from the perspective of lineage you're already dead. Friends or acquaintances would likely try to pick up tabs for you (kind of like it's settling your affairs) or unspokenly make sure you always had a place to rest (subconsciously attending to your burial) -- basically, you'd be a tragic figure, but if you were worthy of respect, somebody you constantly honor a little bit more than the next dwarf because you want to show your respect just in case you never see them again. This would be almost COMPLETELY unspoken... but it would be a cultural thing. Like the complicated dynamics of varying degrees of apologies in Japanese culture, so would the complex tapestries of somberness, pity, and respect for the laudable dwarven eunuch.

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No reason at all to be bald but a eunuch will have no facial hair and tend to be "soft" compared to a normal man. Think of making a much larger version of a 10 year old. They never go through a proper puberty and never become as broad and muscled as a man, but seem to grow a little taller


Andrew R wrote:
Harrison wrote:
Andrew R wrote:
No beard, that would mark him as an outsider to most dwarves
Even if it was a stylish goatee?
eunuchs lack facial/body hair

that's untrue. Studies show that eunuch's are actually even more likely to be hairy then normal men, because they lack the hormone that causes baldness.

If he were castrated before puberty, which I don't plan on, then he woudl be less hairy, but still have body hair, just very very delayed.

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mrofmist wrote:
Andrew R wrote:
Harrison wrote:
Andrew R wrote:
No beard, that would mark him as an outsider to most dwarves
Even if it was a stylish goatee?
eunuchs lack facial/body hair

that's untrue. Studies show that eunuch's are actually even more likely to be hairy then normal men, because they lack the hormone that causes baldness.

If he were castrated before puberty, which I don't plan on, then he woudl be less hairy, but still have body hair, just very very delayed.

They do not go bald on the head but lack body hair.

When people talk of eunuchs they are almost always referring to castration before puberty. if done later he is simply a castrated man and that is it. The hormones and whatnot are already in place they just now have less testosterone but outside of impotence, slight loss of muscle and energy there is basically no difference.

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Been thinking more about how Dwarves would favour eunuchs, and some possible alternatives to the whole odalisque Arabian nights harem thing.

Okay. So let's imagine you're a Dwarven Clan Lord, right?

And you have loads of gold, magic items, treasure and pleasure concubines.
But your clan only has so much resources for building the best underground vault that you can afford. With your current amount of men and masons, you can't secure your goods in the vault that you envisage. You're worried about having a great vault, and having security.

Your neighbouring clan's lord has exactly the same problem. He's too busy fighting orcs to go about building that enormous Dwarven vault to keep the treasures of his clan safe.

He says the Dankbeard clan a few hundred kilometres under Mountain Hoarfrost have the same problem. But the Dankbeard clan lord is currently so protective of his gold that he won't even have visitors from the other clans stay for longer than a fortnight anymore. Diplomacy is falling to bits with the Dankbeards.

After a hundred years of this situation, an order of master Dwarven monks enter the cavern system. They have lived, fought, and built for hundreds of years, and they offer to build a new monastery in a nearby Cavern that will be jointly funded by all the clans, and keep all the treasures there.

This united Clans Vault will be protected by elite Eunuch Dwarven monks, who have sworn vows of poverty, and have matched their vow of chastity with a hot dagger (ow!) So each Lords concubines will be kept in total comfort, and be protected by some of the most powerful and politically neutral warriors in the caverns.

The Clan Lords are delighted with this offer, and fund the Vault. The United Vault provides a protected, neutral location for the Lords to conduct diplomacy, trades, and barter. And things are great.

Once every few decades, new acolytes of the United vault are cast out, to hone their skill. Your dwarf could be one such warrior. But there is a secret agenda. The monks of the United Vaults express goal is to search out new opportunities to bring all the clans together. The monk leaders prophesise that when the Clans are united, the Dwarven people will experience a renaissance of prosperity and power.

And so, armed with only his oaths and his strength, the Dwarven monk ventures out to become a master worthy of uniting the clans.

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