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[Mister Always]

Simple as that, you know. Made at a craftsdwarf's or metalsmith's workshop (bone, stone, horn, variety-of-metals), like little beads and trinkets shaped like skulls, axes, broad crosses, any of those symbols we all know and like so well. One bar/stone/pile of bones should make quite a lot of them because they're so small (like 30 of them? 50?).

They'd give nobles (who could afford more of them, once the economy is back in) a more royal bearing (The king's beard is decorated with golden skulls!), and, you know, dwarves are craftsmen and their beards are important to them, so, yeah. I guess women would put them in their hair, but if a man does it, that's weird ("What are ye?! A feckin' elf, Urist?!"), because he's got a BEARD, damn it.

Anyway, my other thing. Further customization of the millitary. Maybe you could tell them to all shave their heads and grow their beards out as long as they'll go, or dye their hair a certain colour, or put a certain amount of a certain kind of ornament in their beard (or put an amount of rings/amulets made from a specific material, you know, all that). Just to promote uniformity.

[NW_Kohaku]

I initially had to do a double-take on this one, since I thought I remembered this having just seen this suggestion, and remembering there had already been responses to it...

Anyway, you were just posting this suggestion in the other suggestion thread, weren't you?  If you spoke your piece in that thread, why create a new thread to say essentially the same thing?

Also, there's another thread on social class and the materialistic demands they have, and how to make them actually matter instead of being a purely cosmetic choice.

[Mister Always]

...damn, son. Didn't even REMEMBER that post.