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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 4667735" data-attributes="member: 2093">So they would show off that wealth. Possibly they wear iron jewelry, have iron art work on display (huge wrought iron decorative gateways at the city entrance, a cast iron throne for the king, pillars of steel supporting the throne room ceiling). They might also display evidence of their martial strength in captured banners from ancient days hung on the throne-room walls. Music - most dwarves have very different musical taste than humans. Have their halls ring with chanting every hour (or whatever division you decide on) or with great mechanical bells. It could be very eerie and echoing. And the dwarves just pause, wait for the noise to pass (or even join in the chant for a few seconds, mid-conversation) and then go on as if it never happened.Food - the humans may be amazed to discover that they are served roasted mountain goat stuffed with dried fruit at the king's table, but when they stop at a tavern for a snack, they get "dwarf-tack" made from cave-grown fungus ground into flour (or dried and reconstituted puffball mushrooms; tough but tasty). Mushroom stew and roasted cave-rat might also be common menu items.Play up the sharp contrasts - claustrophobic rooms and passages opening onto vast inner caves, defenses in 3 dimensions (pits, sudden elevations, deep shafts and elevators, steep stairs without rails over chasms, etc...) absolute darkness and sudden pools of artificial light. Think about some other secret these dwarves may have. In my campaign world, dwarves are genderless; they are carved from stone in adult form, so there are no dwarf children, no marriage, no sex, etc... Instead they are very close to their "parent carver" and their "stone brothers" carved from the same rock and near the same time. Because they are SO different from other races, dwarves tend to keep this quiet, and don't tell outsiders. This group may have a different secret, but they could still have one.Hope these ideas help...</blockquote>

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