51 réponses à ce sujet

[DontWakeTheBear]

Vegetation wise various types of mushrooms and fungus which can grow just fine in the dark, meat wise nugs and bronko's seem a likely choice, and fish aren't unheard of in under water pools. I imagine deep stalkers aren't too bad sauteed in mushrooms.  Dwarfs are heartier than humans and could survive things that would likely kill us

[Andraste_Reborn]

What were they eating beforehand, though? The only way I can see it working is if the lichen is manasynthetic instead of photosynthetic, living from lyrium radiation.

 

I think this is by far the most likely explanation. I suspect this is how dwarves became magic resistant in the first place - they weren't just exposed to lyrium indirectly, their whole diet consisted of lichen that subsist on lyrium radiation and animals that eat the lichen. (Brontos are called 'rock-lickers' because they eat lichen.)

 

As for 'how do dwarves survive on lichen, meat and fungus?', well, they probably had many thousands of years to adapt since they moved underground.

[Iron Fist]

With the readily available stones and heat, I imagine they grill many things.

[EmissaryofLies]

The souls of gingers.

[KaiserShep]

Maybe dwarves are hypercarnivores and can live exclusively on nugs.

[Iron Fist]

The souls of gingers.

 

I'm a ginger dwarf. 

[Steelcan]

They eat plot holes and "we didn't think of that"

[Ihatebadgames]

Quote not working again. Ginger dwarf you should change your name to breakfast.

[BabyFratelli]

I would assume after the Warden left most of the dwarves in Orzammar would've died of starvation with no one else to rustle up nugs for them.

[EmissaryofLies]

I'm a ginger dwarf. 

 

*Universe explodes*

[AresKeith]

Hamburgers made from nugs or brontos

[gottaloveme]

Lichen bread to go with the lichen ale?  Nugs - boil 'em before roasting? Lost in the Deep Roads? A little darkspawn will hit the spot I'm sure. Deep mushroom pie?

[The Qun & the Damned]

The dreams and aspirations of the casteless

[thats1evildude]

Lost in the Deep Roads? A little darkspawn will hit the spot I'm sure.

 

Sure, if you don't mind becoming a crazed ghoul.

 

But the dwarves can eat deepstalkers, so there's that.

[Enshaid]

They eat the casteless. 

 

What do you think they brand them for?

[TK514]

I'm surprised this bothers the OP. I could see this subject being of interest to, say, dragon flight, dwarfy fellow that he is.

What do they eat? Fantasy dwarf food that meets their fantasy dwarf needs and is produced in a fantasy way. The deep roads, and anything in them, are so divorced from anything even remotely like underground in our world that it might as well be the Fade. There's simply no way to even begin to conjecture as to what organisms that evolved in such a place, if they evolved, need or produce in the way of nutrients.

Where is it stored/produced? Places we didn't go because we had no reason to.

[Cainhurst Crow]

What were they eating beforehand, though? The only way I can see it working is if the lichen is manasynthetic instead of photosynthetic, living from lyrium radiation.

 

What about thermosynthetic, growing from heat? There's certainly enough lava channels in certain areas of the deep roads for that to be possible.

[Rusty Sandusky]

They live on facial hair

[Maferath]

It has to produce more than light, though; it has to produce something that can mimic actual solar energy. Which would be a significant discovery itself.

I'm not sure what you mean by that ? Solar energy is light.

 

Lyrium radiation doesn't seem like it would produce enough light to support an entire food chain, though. If I had to imagine an ecosystem that could thrive in the Deep Roads, I would probably make the vegetation thermal-based like somebody mentioned : heat doesn't seem to be lacking there.

[Iron Fist]

If not for the taint, they could eat all those dead darkspawn. Oh well.

[Mistic]

If not for the taint, they could eat all those dead darkspawn. Oh well.

 

I'm getting the impression that in Kal-Sharok that idea might have not been as far-fetched as it sounds.

[Xilizhra]

What about thermosynthetic, growing from heat? There's certainly enough lava channels in certain areas of the deep roads for that to be possible.

Hmmm... maybe there's some practical reason to let those magma streams exist after all. If possible, I suppose we could go from there.

[Cainhurst Crow]

And dirt. Gotta get those minerals somehow.

[Anvos]

And dirt. Gotta get those minerals somehow.

 

The Dirt is in the ale, Oghren even admits it.