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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8913655" data-attributes="member: 1125">I said Dwarfs had to Deal with elementals and thus learned new techniques and skills not that the Elementals told them how to do it.&nbsp; For instance Hawks in Australia have been observed carrying burning sticks and actively helping to spread bush fires in order to herd prey - they have learned to Deal with fire.&nbsp; Hominids probaby had to deal with wild fires from lightning strikes and lava flows too eventually learning to control them.proto-Dwarfs probably had to deal with similar wild magma flows but those dwarfs also live in worlds where those Wildfires might be intelligent and are often malicious. They learn to Deal with those sentient fires developing ways to keep the malicious ones at bay, or taming them and bending them to their will.&nbsp; Even real world superstitions and magic come from similar deals - knocking on wood to invoke wood spirits, hanging horseshoes above the door too keep out fey, tossing runes and chanting spells - all ways of Dealing with the world via magic.Eventually the proto-dwarfs Art changes the nature of the world, the fire becomes tamed in the forge, horseshoes work to keep fey away and wizards develop formulaic expressions that get physical results</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 8913655, member: 1125"] I said Dwarfs had to Deal with elementals and thus learned new techniques and skills not that the Elementals told them how to do it. For instance Hawks in Australia have been observed carrying burning sticks and actively helping to spread bush fires in order to herd prey - they have learned to Deal with fire. Hominids probaby had to deal with wild fires from lightning strikes and lava flows too eventually learning to control them. proto-Dwarfs probably had to deal with similar wild magma flows but those dwarfs also live in worlds where those Wildfires might be intelligent and are often malicious. They learn to Deal with those sentient fires developing ways to keep the malicious ones at bay, or taming them and bending them to their will. Even real world superstitions and magic come from similar deals - knocking on wood to invoke wood spirits, hanging horseshoes above the door too keep out fey, tossing runes and chanting spells - all ways of Dealing with the world via magic. Eventually the proto-dwarfs Art changes the nature of the world, the fire becomes tamed in the forge, horseshoes work to keep fey away and wizards develop formulaic expressions that get physical results [/QUOTE]

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