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Message: <blockquote data-quote="psyekl" data-source="post: 3300800" data-attributes="member: 21025">This'll be a bit long, so bear with me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ...I normally post in the Art forum, but this seemed to be a more "general RPG" post.  I'll present my views here, but I welcome further elaborations or even contrasting ideas, so please share <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> While designing parts of my dwarven keep, I kept coming across questions of how dwarves live their lives and how it affects their architecture.  The most basic structure that determines how I design dwarven fortresses and the like is the Dwarve's residence.  How they live at home has a lot to do with how they would build other structures: i.e. what they find comfortable.  My idea of how dwarves live is similar to a Celt's roundhouse: one room with a central hearth.  Add to that a raised platform on which they sleep and room for a loom and other necessities and that's about it.  Simple, comfortable with a focus around the hearth.  Although dwarves are subterranean and do have low-light vision (or is it darkvision?), I don't see them living out their lives in the darkness and chill of their subterranean habitat; I see them having an affinity for fire and the warmth of the hearth.  Common representations of Dwarves show them as being sociable, so I picture a round area for them to sit around the fire and share tales as seen in the film "The Thirteenth Warrior", with much laughter and conversation.  The roof of the residence would be a shallow dome, with the walls ending at 6 feet (they don't need any taller).  Smoke from the hearth would exit through a hole drilled into the roof leading to the nearest open space, most likeley an adjacent cavern.  Fuel for the fires will be some lumber, traded from surface-dwelling folk as well as harvested from near the entrances of the citadel, and coal from their mining activities.  They would tend to live in extended family groups, often having 3 generations sharing the same residence.  Furniture would be almost non-existant, as Dwarves would be just as comfortable reclining on the raised platform or sitting on the floor.  The cold stone would be covered with rugs, furs and tapestries, and the single entrance to the dwelling would be curtained to keep out the chill....that's the gist of my idea of a Dwarven home, what's yours?</blockquote>

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