lukelightning
First Post
I like primal dwarves.
Enough of this subterranean miner stuff — I want my dwarves living on mountains, not in them, in snowy alpine longhouses, surrounded by carved runestones and totem poles. Sure they are expert miners, but they don't live in there...except for perhaps some eccentric spirit-touched hermit. And those axes? Great for chopping down trees.
If you think of dwarves as the vikings of the hills, you can easily see their primal connection; the Scandinavian cultures had strong shamanic elements (not true shamanism, mind you... that was for the Lapps). And the stereotypical viking is pretty much the same as the stereotypical barbarian.
Enough of this subterranean miner stuff — I want my dwarves living on mountains, not in them, in snowy alpine longhouses, surrounded by carved runestones and totem poles. Sure they are expert miners, but they don't live in there...except for perhaps some eccentric spirit-touched hermit. And those axes? Great for chopping down trees.
If you think of dwarves as the vikings of the hills, you can easily see their primal connection; the Scandinavian cultures had strong shamanic elements (not true shamanism, mind you... that was for the Lapps). And the stereotypical viking is pretty much the same as the stereotypical barbarian.