Mycanid
First Post
You know ... I think that the best choice would be the artificer, but of a specialized sort. The image of the dwarves as warriors is just as valid, but does not to my mind express the "essence" of the race.
I mean the essence of the dwarves is that they are craftsmen, right? They take the treasures of the earth that they love so well and make them into even more beautiful, glorious AND useful things! Isn't this one of the main things that makes a dwarf a dwarf? It is to me at least.
Tolkien termed it "the desire of the hearts of dwarves" in The Hobbit, and Gimli articulates it beautifully in The Two Towers when describing what he and his people would do with the caverns beneath Helm's Deep if they were given a chance.
I mean the essence of the dwarves is that they are craftsmen, right? They take the treasures of the earth that they love so well and make them into even more beautiful, glorious AND useful things! Isn't this one of the main things that makes a dwarf a dwarf? It is to me at least.
Tolkien termed it "the desire of the hearts of dwarves" in The Hobbit, and Gimli articulates it beautifully in The Two Towers when describing what he and his people would do with the caverns beneath Helm's Deep if they were given a chance.