Everything You Need To Know About Dwarves

[TEEbrown 348]

The elder clans are clans that where once great, garnering many members or noterity, basically old noble clans that have lost a considerable deal of members. They are still held in respect, just without the offical political perks.

[Phelrin 60]

Another thing for the list. Ironguts have Ironfists in the same way Grandaxes have Grimaxes. Ironfist should be added as another commoner clan

[Nefarious Aus Shitpost 891]

Could you add the Tunnelsmashers to the list of commoner clans? We have been recognized by the Ironguts and currently reside in Kal'Dwain. You might also want to add the Forkbeards to that list too.

[TEEbrown 348]

[Added :P

Also, in order to gather everyone's opinions of dwarves and our way of life, I would like to see your ideas of the subject matter. Below is a list of things that need to be explained for the fleshing out of our culture. If you are interested, pick one of the topics and write out how you think the dwarves would apply to that. Send it to me through a pm or just post it here in this thread.

Things that need to be covered in the Culture section.

• Traditions
  
• Honor (Definition on how it relates to us)
  
• Architecture
  
• How we view magic
  
• How we view other races
  
• Different subrace culture
  
• Rituals (Anything besides burial techiques)
  

Other work that needs to be written out.

• Engeneering and Scientific Feats
  
• Better explination of the govermental structure (More depth)
  
• A berief summery of Golems
  
• An elaboration on the differances between class on the Clan scale (Noble, commoner, elder)
  
• An explination on how we conduct war (I will work on this one)
  
• A more organised language (Just organisational work here)
  
• The history needs to be organised and cataloged
  

[Arbrek the Ancient 140]

((Traditions and Rituals are something the Clergy is actively working on. Personally, I can do Golems and Clans. We Starbreakers have seen every type of Clan, and I'm a pretty knowledgable on Golems, of course.))

[zuluman 79]

I thought this link might be useful to some people:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/59329-honor/

The thread was started by Hiebe and contains some discussion on the topic of Honor.

[TEEbrown 348]

((Traditions and Rituals are something the Clergy is actively working on. Personally, I can do Golems and Clans. We Starbreakers have seen every type of Clan, and I'm a pretty knowledgable on Golems, of course.))

Feel free to take any part of this to work on.

I thought this link might be useful to some people:

http://www.lordofthecraft.net/forum/index.php?/topic/59329-honor/

The thread was started by Hiebe and contains some discussion on the topic of Honor.

Most of the information I found in your two posts. :P Anyway, a lot of this can apply with the topic discussion of honor, it just needs to be organised to a state where it can be easily read by new dwarves and have the weight with in its words.

[TEEbrown 348]

Updated:

Added all aspects of the mega thread

Added a tradition

Began reformatting the thread

Will add more as the work has been transferred from paper to the computer.

[Arbrek the Ancient 140]

((Also, aren't the Ironfists just when Starbreaker and Irongut merged? Or is there another?))

[TEEbrown 348]

The Ironfists are much like the Grimaxes but to the Ironguts in that respect.

[TEEbrown 348]

Updated:

Added Psychology

-Earning of Dwarven Friendship

-Deep Grudges

-The Proud Race

-Sacred Honor

-Dwarves view on the Magic Arts

-Dwarves' view on other Races

--Humans

--Elves

--Orcs

Updated Clan description

Updated Religion

-Added Dwarven Gods

Added a link to dwarven engineering

[TEEbrown 348]

Update

Added

Dwarven Oath: The word of a dwarf is perhaps the most trustworthy voice you can find through out the world. When a dwarf declares an oath said dwarf must fulfill that oath to keep his honor. For if the said dwarf did not fulfill the oath, said dwarf would be dubbed "oathbreaker" and shunned from dwarven society, which is also the worst insult a dwarf can have. The fulfilling of oaths is what give a dwarf his honor, for not many other ways can a dwarf gain honor with out the fulfilling of oaths. The majority of oaths are sworn via grudges, since the dwarf declaring the grudge swears an oath against his enemy.

Dwarf's Lust for Gold: The dwarven lust for gold is a very intriguing situation. The curse of Iblees states that dwarves will have greed beyond any of the other races. But so long has that been, dwarves have see this greed as more of a normal thing among dwarves. It has become part of who they are, their society. Dwarves see no "greed" in their lusting after gold, although the other races do disagree. All dwarves have a lust for gold, so it is natural and not looked down upon by their kin.

Dwarf's love of Beautiful Things: The race of dwarves have a deep love for beautiful or awe inspiring things. The things that a dwarf might find beautiful is up to him, but usually is determined by the environment around him; grand halls, sparkling gems, intricate craftsmanship, etc. Beauty of a physical nature is not the only thing that dwarves find beautiful. Although they are very visual people, dwarves find beauty in things such as the deep meanings in tradition and honor. Dwarves greatly appreciate such things and will go out of their way to keep them protected.

-=Dwarven Eyes=-

Over the years the eyes of a dwarf have become accustom to the deep depths of their mines. This means, a dwarf has a heighten sense of sight in the dark, compared to a human's. This sight helps them find ore veins that are not lit up by the lanterns in the dark mines. Although this heightened sense of eye sight in the dark may help, it does not fare that well in utter darkness. This is why the dwarves still light up their cities so that darkness is not welcome.

The dwarves' trained eye is not just for the dark depths of the mines, it is also equally as effective in determining metals and ores, a good tool for a smith or miner. When faced with two similar looking metals or ores, a dwarf can easily determine the difference between the two, it just comes naturally. These trained eyes help the mining dwarves determine where ore veins are via rock formations along the cave walls. This is one reason why dwarves have such a knack for mining.

-=Great Dwarven Beards!=-

A dwarven beard is on of the most distinctive features of a dwarf, besides the short stature. The beard of a dwarf starts growing around 50 years of age which is relatively early compared to that of human aging. Dwarven beards can grow as long as to the ankles of a dwarf but most dwarves keep it trimmed from their waist to their chest. Their color of their beards correspond with the color of their hair, usually black or brown turning grey with age for cave and forest dwarves, or ginger turning white with age for mountain dwarves. Braids and bands through out their beards and hair are very common for dwarves. Some of which mark a particular social status of a dwarf.

-Reorganised the main topics

-Added dwarven paragons

[Nefarious Aus Shitpost 891]

Please tell me of anything you would like to add to this list:

List of Racial Insults:

Elf:

Knifey

Prickey

Twiggy

Tree-Hugger

Wuss

No-Beards [ Obviously doesn't apply to Native ]

Skruff

Orcs:

Carpet

Greenskin

Humans:

- no idea as I don't interact with humans often -

Skruff

Whitewash Dwarfs:

Stone-forsaken

Stone-sodding

Traitor

List of Dwarfen Sports:

Breadfighting: Thread here

Spleef: Sport of kings. I remember finding a book on it in Khaz'A'Zhar's library, but that is about it.

[Skippy 2466]

Bael, we call those with short / bad beards, skruff.

[Boomack21 124]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.