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[acetech09]

To Repost:

In the Zero'th Year:

Armok gave Man great stature, but took from them a Long Life.
Armok gave Elves the trees, but took from them their Brains.
Armok gave Goblins rage, but took from them their Dignity.
Armok gave Kobolds cuteness, and took from them Everything Else.
Armok gave Dwarves the anvil, but took from them their Sobriety.

We know who got the best deal.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

To Repost:

In the Zero'th Year:

Armok gave Man great stature, but took from them a Long Life.
Armok gave Elves the trees, but took from them their Brains.
Armok gave Goblins rage, but took from them their Dignity.
Armok gave Kobolds cuteness, and took from them Everything Else.
Armok gave Dwarves the anvil, but took from them their Sobriety.

We know who got the best deal.

of course
kobolds are cute ...

[wierd]

I always imagine them as fraggles for some bizzare reason.


Regardless, the little kleptos are clearly a threat, despite their supposed "cuteness".


They will stop at nothing until they have *all* of the socks in the fortress.

[Kolnukbyne]

I always imagine them as fraggles for some bizzare reason.

Somebody please mod in psychotic klepto-fraggles.

[acetech09]

An +Article+ on DF kobolds.

[mek42]

Clearly Arnok had a mood when he made the first anvil, slade, inlaid with adamantine and decorated with star rubies.   This relic exists in a temple deep underground, yet to be discovered.  Exactly one such temple exists per generated world.   This temple also has a mithral chest containing seeds of Yggdrasil which will be returned to the elves when they accept that the true purpose of trees is to make charcoal for steel and beds for dwarf children.

[PDF urist master]

the first anvil was created by a humble man whom carved it out of rock in sheer artistic passion.

the dwarves having seen the creation and realized it potential for metalworking, bought the creation with their socks, but could never replicate its creation.

a dwarven scientist suggested that metal can be used instead of rock, and the first dwarven anvil was made.

[paldin]

Early anvils were first made of stone as a lithic stone tool, then bronze, and later wrought iron. As steel became more readily available, anvils were faced with that. This was done to give the anvil a hard face and to stop the anvil from deforming from impact. Many regional styles of anvils evolved through time from the simple block that was first used by smiths.

Dwarfs are an all-or-nothing race who despise stone anvils cracking and bronze anvils deforming, and so use only iron and steel. But the original anvil was simply a hard, non-economic stone that was more or less cubic, which the local dwarfs used as a back wall to crack nuts and break shells. Finding the utility of the device so compelling, they opted to manufacture new cubes wherever they were unable to find a natural formation.

It was an accidental discovery that produced the first bar of metal ore. When a broken stone caused its owner to tantrum, the resulting inferno in the wake of his rampage smelted the block into a bar. That block was further refined and struck until it formed the first true anvil. And the rest, as they say, is left to the NSA to recover from log files.