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[Fault]

I had no idea your avatar had so much effect on your cognitive ability

[Ironhand]

Just on how it's perceived.

[Siquo]

The man in his avatar is a Genius.

[Ironhand]

Heh. Too late.

He switched it back to something awesome.

By which I mean "the same thing, but as a goblin".

[Dakorma]

Yet more exaggerated figures, yet this time most of them are interacting with each other.  Each pair took no more than about 30 seconds.

Edit; oops

[Soadreqm]

Reminds me of... This.

You're right. Mystery solved!

Dakorma: How are you doing those?

[Dakorma]

Alchemy. http://al.chemy.org/ Most of the strokes are procedural.

[Ironhand]

I'm drawing a dwarf.



I posted him in fanart, too.

He's pretty much my first major attempt at a face.
I'm quite pleased with him!

[JoshuaFH]

The face and head kind of look like a gorilla's.

[Ironhand]

Uh... thanks?

[JoshuaFH]

You're welcome.

[Fault]

The face and head kind of look like a gorilla's.

huh, kinda the same problem I had with that dwarf who's beard was the same colour as his skin.
Ironhand, I would suggest making a clearer divide between where his hair stops and his head begins.

[Ironhand]

Good call.

I hadn't really gotten out of his face yet.

I'll probably put a crown and coif on his head eventually,
so I'm not really worrying about his hair yet.

[abculatter_2]

A doodle based on a scene in my story in my sig.

!!Critique!!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't like that volcano to the right... It just doesn't look right. Also, would anyone be willing to color this? I'd like to see it colored though I'm just too lazy to bother getting good at coloring. I can give color schemes if you want.

[Jimmy]

What does that do? he goes epileptic and opens Warp Portals?

Spoiler: From The Táin: (click to show/hide)

"The first warp-spasm seized Cúchulainn, and made him into a monstrous thing, hideous and shapeless, unheard of. His shanks and his joints, every knuckle and angle and organ from head to foot, shook like a tree in the flood or a reed in the stream. His body made a furious twist inside his skin, so that his feet and shins switched to the rear and his heels and calves switched to the front... On his head the temple-sinews stretched to the nape of his neck, each mighty, immense, measureless knob as big as the head of a month-old child... he sucked one eye so deep into his head that a wild crane couldn't probe it onto his cheek out of the depths of his skull; the other eye fell out along his cheek. His mouth weirdly distorted: his cheek peeled back from his jaws until the gullet appeared, his lungs and his liver flapped in his mouth and throat, his lower jaw struck the upper a lion-killing blow, and fiery flakes large as a ram's fleece reached his mouth from his throat... The hair of his head twisted like the tange of a red thornbush stuck in a gap; if a royal apple tree with all its kingly fruit were shaken above him, scarce an apple would reach the ground but each would be spiked on a bristle of his hair as it stood up on his scalp with rage."

But there are many "underground diminiutive people", the Aes Sidhe, the Tuatha de Danann, and less spiritual ones... There's also stories of tribes in Scotland that were driven underground by the Gaels.

The tuatha de danann were always more like elves than dwarves (even after they were driven underground and became the Aes Sidhe)

If you really want dwarves, you could make it a Celtic/Norse hybrid, which would be awesome. "Jörmungandr the Midgar Serpent has arrived at your fortress. You are dead." I don't really know any race that could be dwarves in Celtic myhtology though.

That may be the only way to go about it
Norse Mythology offers a few good megabeast Ideas as well: frost giants, World serpents, colossal Wolves...

@akigagak: The Picts, perhaps?

I think the celts, the gaels, the picts, and the Fir Bolg would work better as races of men.
Fomorians would obviously be the goblin equivalent (except with more castes...)
The tuatha would be noble, forest dwelling elves, and the Sidhe could dwell in those kobold mounds that they have in the new version.

I also need Ideas on plants and metals to replace those which are unique to dwarf fortress.
I'm thinking of replacing Adamantine with a legendary Norse Alloy called Orichalcum.

Sorry for dragging this up from the past, but for those that are interested in both ancient Irish myths and incredible art I'd recommend checking out Oghme Comics (link).

Spoiler: Cú Chulainn by Oghme Comics (click to show/hide)