thecoldembrace
Sage
I am by nature, a very curious fellow. Besides magic being my most beloved part of fantasy, there are the dwarves. Now I first read about Tolkien's dwarves when I was little, and loved them ever since. When I first started writing, I always seemed to have 1/3rd of my stories about a dwarf. As I grew up I collected the lore and knowledge of other people's dwarves as I went along. Then when I finally built my own dwarves when I made my own world I took the culminated knowledge and built what my friends describe as "dwarves that stand like giants."
To summarize, I took, Tolkien's dwarves, WoW's dwarves, Warhammer's dwarves, and Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance dwarves and mixed them together, took out what I hated and kept the best. Most importantly, I removed the image of the dwarven race as dying. I've always hated the idea of this most interesting Elder Race as being far beyond its golden years and is slowly vanishing from the world, leaving only their works behind.
The second being... I made sure my dwarf women didn't have facial hair.
If you have them, what are the dwarves of your world's like? Feed my curiosity.
-Cold
To summarize, I took, Tolkien's dwarves, WoW's dwarves, Warhammer's dwarves, and Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance dwarves and mixed them together, took out what I hated and kept the best. Most importantly, I removed the image of the dwarven race as dying. I've always hated the idea of this most interesting Elder Race as being far beyond its golden years and is slowly vanishing from the world, leaving only their works behind.
The second being... I made sure my dwarf women didn't have facial hair.
If you have them, what are the dwarves of your world's like? Feed my curiosity.
-Cold