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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8341066" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Hey! Don’t get me wrong, Dwarves are cool. But…they’re at risk of getting a bit stale in D&amp;D.&nbsp; &nbsp;what if we went back to origins and rethought what a Dwarf can be?&nbsp; &nbsp;For instance, and mind this ain’t a scholarly source because this ain’t an academic discussion, this article goes into just how ambiguous stories about dwarves are in Norse myth.&nbsp; <a href="https://mythologysource.com/dwarves-norse-mythology/" target="_blank">Dwarves in Norse Mythology</a>&nbsp;Now I’ve done a decent amount of research on this topic over the years, myself, and yeah, Ivaldi is never said to fear the sun, nor the Bricings, nor Gandalfr, nor Alberich IIRC, nor the 4 who hold up the sky, etc, and none of them are described as short, either.&nbsp; &nbsp;So perhaps a line of dwarves, Dvalin’s kin, fear the sun, while others simply live underground, and still others live in the forest.&nbsp; &nbsp;What do Norse dwarves have in common?Well, they’re very magical, for one. &nbsp;For another they are excellent craftsfolk. &nbsp;They seem to tend not to like outsiders much to me, and they are almost certainly related to elves. Too many of thier names have variants of alfar in them to be otherwise.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Okay, so this sounds more like gnomes than dwarves in a lot of ways, but let’s roll with it. How can we make more magical dwarfs while keeping them dwarfy? &nbsp;Anyone here knowledgeable about dwarves from other cultures, or have some really interesting tales on them?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8341066, member: 6704184"] Hey! Don’t get me wrong, Dwarves are cool. But…they’re at risk of getting a bit stale in D&D. what if we went back to origins and rethought what a Dwarf can be? For instance, and mind this ain’t a scholarly source because this ain’t an academic discussion, this article goes into just how ambiguous stories about dwarves are in Norse myth. [URL="https://mythologysource.com/dwarves-norse-mythology/"]Dwarves in Norse Mythology[/URL] Now I’ve done a decent amount of research on this topic over the years, myself, and yeah, Ivaldi is never said to fear the sun, nor the Bricings, nor Gandalfr, nor Alberich IIRC, nor the 4 who hold up the sky, etc, and none of them are described as short, either. So perhaps a line of dwarves, Dvalin’s kin, fear the sun, while others simply live underground, and still others live in the forest. What do Norse dwarves have in common? Well, they’re very magical, for one. For another they are excellent craftsfolk. They seem to tend not to like outsiders much to me, and they are almost certainly related to elves. Too many of thier names have variants of alfar in them to be otherwise. Okay, so this sounds more like gnomes than dwarves in a lot of ways, but let’s roll with it. How can we make more magical dwarfs while keeping them dwarfy? Anyone here knowledgeable about dwarves from other cultures, or have some really interesting tales on them? [/QUOTE]

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