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<blockquote data-quote="SpiralBound" data-source="post: 1971218" data-attributes="member: 8396">In one of my campaign setting, I had three main groups of Dwarves, each of whom had a distinctive accent. The players quickly learned to pay attention to what accent was used for a Dwarf as they had quite different relations to other races and cultures.&nbsp; In this setting, the Dwarves had migrated into the area from &quot;elsewhere&quot; a very long time ago and were gradually migrating from West to East.The oldest and original group were of the &quot;Dybendahl Tor&quot;, living in an ernormous mountain that was isolated in the middle of heavily wooded foothills.&nbsp; This group was decidedly traditional and conformist to the point of being culturally xenophobic and judgemental of others, even the other Dwarven cultures.&nbsp; These were the guys who were very clan-oriented and could recite their clan lineages. I had them speak in a stern and cold &quot;pseudo-Russian&quot; accent using a slight middle-english sentence structure.The middle-aged second group were from the &quot;Skjölsvold Firmament&quot; in a large mountain range bordering an inland salt-water sea. These guys were traditional and arranged in clans, but they were tolerant of other cultures and open to trading with other cultures (on their terms though).&nbsp; For this culture I used a badly generic Scandinavian accent spoken with a politely reserved, slightly formal sentence structure.The youngest (relatively speaking) and most Easterly group were the Dwarves from &quot;Morian's Geld&quot; who lived in a low-lying mountain and hill range that ran parallel to the Skjölsvold mountain range on the other side of a narrow valley. This was practically a cosmopolitian culture of easygoing fun-loving people with a joking and self-effacing demeanor.&nbsp; They actively seeked interaction with other races and cultures and they had an extended family structure with many children (although being Dwarven the age differences between siblings was rather great).&nbsp; The Morian's Dwarves spoke with an Irish accent using short sentences punctuated with funny expressions or dry sarcasisms.So, as you can see it became very important to the players to recognise which cultural Dwarf they were speaking to when presented with a Dwarven npc! <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpiralBound, post: 1971218, member: 8396"] In one of my campaign setting, I had three main groups of Dwarves, each of whom had a distinctive accent. The players quickly learned to pay attention to what accent was used for a Dwarf as they had quite different relations to other races and cultures. In this setting, the Dwarves had migrated into the area from "elsewhere" a very long time ago and were gradually migrating from West to East. The oldest and original group were of the "Dybendahl Tor", living in an ernormous mountain that was isolated in the middle of heavily wooded foothills. This group was decidedly traditional and conformist to the point of being culturally xenophobic and judgemental of others, even the other Dwarven cultures. These were the guys who were very clan-oriented and could recite their clan lineages. I had them speak in a stern and cold "pseudo-Russian" accent using a slight middle-english sentence structure. The middle-aged second group were from the "Skjölsvold Firmament" in a large mountain range bordering an inland salt-water sea. These guys were traditional and arranged in clans, but they were tolerant of other cultures and open to trading with other cultures (on their terms though). For this culture I used a badly generic Scandinavian accent spoken with a politely reserved, slightly formal sentence structure. The youngest (relatively speaking) and most Easterly group were the Dwarves from "Morian's Geld" who lived in a low-lying mountain and hill range that ran parallel to the Skjölsvold mountain range on the other side of a narrow valley. This was practically a cosmopolitian culture of easygoing fun-loving people with a joking and self-effacing demeanor. They actively seeked interaction with other races and cultures and they had an extended family structure with many children (although being Dwarven the age differences between siblings was rather great). The Morian's Dwarves spoke with an Irish accent using short sentences punctuated with funny expressions or dry sarcasisms. So, as you can see it became very important to the players to recognise which cultural Dwarf they were speaking to when presented with a Dwarven npc! :-) [/QUOTE]

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