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[takaratiki]

I was interested for the sake of blah-blah what human civilization you think our beloved (?) dorfs most resemble. I lean towards the Aztecs as they:
- Were aggro people setting out to a foreign land and laying waste to their neighbors.
- Created an improbable city in the middle of a lake and festooned it with mega-projects.
- Gave rise to craftsmen of legendary skill and interesting taste (flayed human skin suits, for instance).
- Embodied the Armokian spirit of spilling industrial quantities of blood.
- Inevitably overrun by an incursion of neighbors led by several uninvited guests with metal skin. Beware their pestilential breath.

[Eugenitor]

Bearded explorers with steel and a penchant for blood? Vikings. Which fits the usual quasi-Norse dwarf anthropology well.

[nbonaparte]

I demand an Aztec mod.

EDIT: I may do that myself, actually.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

If you want a human/dwarf sacrificial altar, ask me.
I'll make a reaction to turn corpses into barrels of blood.

[Jordrake]

Bearded explorers with steel and a penchant for blood? Vikings. Which fits the usual quasi-Norse dwarf anthropology well.

Fun fact, Vikings weren't allowed to grow long beards, as it would be a great impediment in one-on-one combat. A dude's got hold of your bears, that dude's got control of your head.

[ungulateman]

Bearded explorers with steel and a penchant for blood? Vikings. Which fits the usual quasi-Norse dwarf anthropology well.

Fun fact, Vikings weren't allowed to grow long beards, as it would be a great impediment in one-on-one combat. A dude's got hold of your bears, that dude's got control of your head.

If someone had my bear, I'd be doing what they say. Hell, I'd panda to them.

[Footkerchief]

^^^ Goddamn.

[Owlbread]

Bearded explorers with steel and a penchant for blood? Vikings. Which fits the usual quasi-Norse dwarf anthropology well.

Fun fact, Vikings weren't allowed to grow long beards, as it would be a great impediment in one-on-one combat. A dude's got hold of your bears, that dude's got control of your head.

I have heard that although vikings did not have long beards, they would grow longer moustaches upon their trimmed beards. I have encountered several dwarves with moustaches longer than their beards.

As a Norse/Germanic legend, rather like the fairy folk of the British Isles, I feel most comfortable with visualising Dwarves as Viking-like. I would not be able to take Dwarves as being Scottish, as I see it as utterly unfounded in mythology and bizarre. It's like all Elves being depicted as having Afrikaner accents.

European Civilizations in general appeal to my mental image of Dwarves, but the idea of "mega projects" is quite hard to translate into this. I know such civilizations did create constructions of considerable scope and wonder, take the continent's many cathedrals for example, but I'm not sure if it does the job quite as well as the Aztecs.

[Derekristow]

If someone had my bear, I'd be doing what they say. Hell, I'd panda to them.

None of that, we already have one bear pun thread.

I bet there's a South America map floating around to go along with the mod.

[nbonaparte]

Well, I already generated the Nahuatl language. I'll start a thread when I get some more progress.