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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darraketh" data-source="post: 28298" data-attributes="member: 847">More thoughtsI've always viewed dwarves as sort of short Klingons.  Not mean and nasty but gruff, spartan and bound by honor.  Dwarves are industrious and accustomed to hardship and hard labor.  They favor living underground.  In this enviroment most resources are scarce.  This has lead them to be conservative and practical, considering necessity as the deciding factor in all things.Dwarves have a sickness.  The love of gold.  Yes they prize gems, silver, mithril and other precious treasures of the earth but they love gold.  Some say it is a curse of the gods.  None know for sure.  But this desire drives them in all they do.  They have been known to abandon a stronghold when the gold mines played out leaving behind untapped veins of other precious metals.  However they are the finest miners and have a knack for locating veins of gold that they can mine for many generations.They are militaristic and defensive by nature.  They are extremely jealous of their hoards of gold.  They view all non-dwarves with distrust and assume that these outsiders are plotting to steal their gold!Hoards are communal and are controlled and guarded by a clan.  Each clan has a hoard. The larger it is the more prestige and power a given clan is likely to wield.  Flow of gold among the clans is a part of everyday life.  Gold is moved from one clan to another for all manner of reasons with each clan attempting to assemble the largest hoard.Dwarven settlements are defensive by nature.  Dwarves will defend their hoards to the death.  A clan that has lost it's hoard has been grieviously dishonored.  Other dwarves will look down on them often ostracizing them until they have redeemed themselves by establishing a new hoard or preferably regaining what was lost.It is interesting to note that dwarves never gamble with gold.  They may see fit to gamble with any other precious metals or gems but never gold.If there is any other substance that would be highly valued by dwarves it would have to be iron and the steel that is made from it.  This of course is dictated by dwarven pragmatism as it is what they construct weapons, tools and implements of daily life.</blockquote>

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