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[Duelmaster409]

If only we could study the anatomy and cellular structure of creatures in Dwarf Fortress. I'd really like to know how something so young (it was born not two frames ago) can have hair at all, let alone sport a friggin' awesome 'stache and beard.

Maybe they grow hair while inside the womb?

[Argembarger]

Here is your Dorf Babby.



Congratulations.

[Duelmaster409]

Those diapers might as well have a bulge on them. Dwarven babies are like tiny men. Tinier than their parent dwarves, that is.

[Argembarger]

My apologies, I forgot the sideburns.



There we are. Again, I apologize.

Anyway, I wouldn't be wondering how they grow hair in the womb, I would be wondering how they COMB and BRAID their hair in the womb. Or if it just grows out in braids.

[Biopass]

It's the first thing the mother does. Forget the umbilical cord, that baby needs his beard braided properly!

[DG]

It's the first thing the mother does. Forget the umbilical cord, that baby needs his beard braided properly!

The beard is the umbilical cord.

[Lord Dakoth]

It's the first thing the mother does. Forget the umbilical cord, that baby needs his beard braided properly!

The beard is the umbilical cord.

Well then, what does it connect - oh my. Never mind.

[Biopass]

We need to come up with a theory about this.

Maybe the beard can absorb nutrients, and that's why dorfs can go for months without eating. All the bits of food in their beard are growing molds that are slowly absorbed as nutrition by the beard itself, which transfers it to the bloodstream. This also explains the dwarven affinity for fungi.

The problem is, this insinuates that every dwarf has their beard cut at birth. Which is blasphemy. Unless it falls off naturally, which would explain why mothers carry their babies everywhere for the first few years.

[Armok]

Well then, what does it connect - oh my. Never mind.

Female dwarves have beards to, but not on their faces. Never forget that image.

(( D: ))

[Hairywoodenleg]

So the umbilical cord is the shared beard of mother and baby? And immediately after birth it is cut in half and both ends are braided?

[tfaal]

I would be willing to guess that the entire Dwarven gestation process takes place within the mother's beard, like a really hairy, external uterus.

[ungulateman]

When I saw the title I expected babes being attacked by bears.

This is better. I couldn't bear another thread of bear puns.

[Herbiie]

We are born with hair & you have all over body hair in the womb but you eat it before you're born, so I can imagine a Dwarf baby having a beard.

[Biopass]

So the umbilical cord is the shared beard of mother and baby? And immediately after birth it is cut in half and both ends are braided?

No, it stays attached. Eventually the beard-hairs become untangled (usually on the second or third birthday) and the baby can be separated from the mother. This is because it's blasphemy to cut a beard, even if it attaches you to your mother for a few years.

The question then, is how it gets braided. Grown that way, perhaps?

[Shade-o]

How is babby formed?