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<blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 3930326" data-attributes="member: 1231"><p>This idea may only be half-baked, but...</p><p></p><p>You could cast gargoyles as the ancient foes of the dwarves. </p><p></p><p>Their traditional role has been as something like guardians, where they kept things out, but instead perhaps they should be known for keeping things in... Ages ago, dwarves lived above ground. However, they were terrorized by gargoyles, trapped in their towns and cities by the hungry and cruel predators, who delighted in forcing the dwarves to carve likenesses of themselves on all of their walls and buildings. Whenever a dwarf tried to flee, they would swoop in to play, slowing tormenting until they moved in for the kill. They would then use the bones of their victims to create gruesome monuments that parodied their own statues, and set them at the outskirts of their lands. With no escape past the walls, the dwarfs were forced to dig, in secret, down into the bowels of the earth. This was the beginning of their underground culture. </p><p></p><p>Since then, the population of the gargoyles has decreased, but they still enjoy all of the same things, merely on a smaller scale. They terrorize towns and villages, swooping in to kidnap artisans who they force to work their strange creations before being devoured. Their favourite targets, and food, are still dwarves, who they slaughter and drive back underground whenever they encounter them. And in some places, there are still the statue filled ghost towns, which from time to time are filled with new inhabitants for a prolonged time of fun...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kaodi, post: 3930326, member: 1231"] This idea may only be half-baked, but... You could cast gargoyles as the ancient foes of the dwarves. Their traditional role has been as something like guardians, where they kept things out, but instead perhaps they should be known for keeping things in... Ages ago, dwarves lived above ground. However, they were terrorized by gargoyles, trapped in their towns and cities by the hungry and cruel predators, who delighted in forcing the dwarves to carve likenesses of themselves on all of their walls and buildings. Whenever a dwarf tried to flee, they would swoop in to play, slowing tormenting until they moved in for the kill. They would then use the bones of their victims to create gruesome monuments that parodied their own statues, and set them at the outskirts of their lands. With no escape past the walls, the dwarfs were forced to dig, in secret, down into the bowels of the earth. This was the beginning of their underground culture. Since then, the population of the gargoyles has decreased, but they still enjoy all of the same things, merely on a smaller scale. They terrorize towns and villages, swooping in to kidnap artisans who they force to work their strange creations before being devoured. Their favourite targets, and food, are still dwarves, who they slaughter and drive back underground whenever they encounter them. And in some places, there are still the statue filled ghost towns, which from time to time are filled with new inhabitants for a prolonged time of fun... [/QUOTE]
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