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[Rhenaya]

So i read the drizzt do urden series (forgotten realms/adnd) mainly because i like drow (and i hate him, and though i know he got plot armor and is a mary sue hope he will die and at least he suffers :x). But with his best friend being a dwarven king there is a lot about dwarven culture, and i love dwarves just as much.

Now the older books had some neat insighst into the dwarves (and even more with the drow of course), but this one while the first pages are a bit annoying (fast forward of 70 years with just a lot of explaining the old and as well creating new characters) the next pages dive directly into the the great dwarven hall of gauntlygrm, so if you want to read this book, i put the following in spoiler, its worth not getting spoiled, even without knowing the other books its good to read. because of the mentioned fast forward stuff with explaniation you dont los much without knowing the other 30 books of the series ^^ also dwarves are the only race in the main cast with more than one character

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so the halls are just awesome, it starts off with the description of the grand entrance that just made the battle hardened 300 year old veteran fall into tears, right into the large entrance hall which lead directly to the throne, again it just got more awesome in the description, the floor is a large mosaik of the three dwarven gods. a bit further even the lich and the vampire had a moment of puer awe on an engraving encrusted with gems of moradin more or less the leading god for the dwarves. but now thats where shit got real and i couldnt stop thinking of how it looks in dwarf fortress parall to my usual fantastic full-3d brain cinema. we got a magma forge! but whats even more awesome, it got a single lever... one fucking lever... to FUCK THE WORLD! (device) in fire. maybe a bit exaggerated at this point but those dwarves sure had done some deed there (though admitingly with the help of the mage, and the magma forge is more a forge driven by an ancient prime elemental of fire, and the lever sets it free)

also i have to say at this point: i only read half of this book, and yet i thought i have to share with the df community for whatever reason, so read the spoiler if you need, or better read the book, or if you can afford to buy 30 books read the whole series, you just need to ignore drizzt (though some even love him, for whatever reaseon, the dwarves are just more awesome anyway... even the humans raised by dwarves in those older books are far greater :p)