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Though dwarves all, slowly but surely this question lingered at the very heart of the nature of a dwarf. Dig deep, climb high, spread wide. Perseverance, Ambition, Industry. And so as great works were set about, the | Though dwarves all, slowly but surely this question lingered at the very heart of the nature of a dwarf. Dig deep, climb high, spread wide. Perseverance, Ambition, Industry. And so as great works were set about, the | ||
dwarves divided their separate ways, parting as friends and equals but knowing in their hearts they were a divided people. The Dwarves of the Deep, The Dwarves of the Mountains, and the Dwarves of the City. Little much was heard of the deep dwarves for a time, what did they find in the depths of their labors? Yet the city dwarves set to work hauling stone and building foundations, the mountain dwarves took to the skies, striving towards ever greater heights of achievement, until came Tenrimere... | dwarves divided their separate ways, parting as friends and equals but knowing in their hearts they were a divided people. The Dwarves of the Deep, The Dwarves of the Mountains, and the Dwarves of the City. Little much was heard of the deep dwarves for a time, what did they find in the depths of their labors? Yet the city dwarves set to work hauling stone and building foundations, the mountain dwarves took to the skies, striving towards ever greater heights of achievement, until came Tenrimere... | ||
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Revision as of 17:58, 27 November 2017
Long ago when the world was young, the rock and stone itself seemed to birth a people to populate it. The Dwarves. With flesh like hewn stone and eyes like sharp cut jewels the dwarves were drawn to work the earth with hand and tool, wrestling form and shape from the land and giving order to the seeming chaos of nature. The dwarves are a lawful people, finding comfort in order and peace in carving their place within creation. But a question arose, The rock and stone were clearly the home of any true dwarf, but what feat stood as its greatest testament? Was it to burrow down deep into the depths of the ground, to feel the living heartbeat of the world and touch the lifes blood that was its magma? Was it to climb the greatest jutting height of mountain ranges that scraped the sky, and having reached their peak construct yet taller spires atop them? Perhaps it was expanding across the greatest width, sprawling cityscapes, paving across once soft dirt with rigid stone cobble and giving shape and order to the land they strode.
Though dwarves all, slowly but surely this question lingered at the very heart of the nature of a dwarf. Dig deep, climb high, spread wide. Perseverance, Ambition, Industry. And so as great works were set about, the dwarves divided their separate ways, parting as friends and equals but knowing in their hearts they were a divided people. The Dwarves of the Deep, The Dwarves of the Mountains, and the Dwarves of the City. Little much was heard of the deep dwarves for a time, what did they find in the depths of their labors? Yet the city dwarves set to work hauling stone and building foundations, the mountain dwarves took to the skies, striving towards ever greater heights of achievement, until came Tenrimere...