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[BigBad]

And on the subject of name endings, I seem to remember quite a few masculine Norse names that end in 'i' or 'a'. Magni and Modi, for instance, are Thor's sons. And all of those silly dwarf names in the Hobbit are taken from named dwarves in the Poetic Edda.  Thorin is an ever-popular name, but I never see anyone with a dwarf named Bifur or Fili or Gloin.

[Tishina]

A and ya endings for women's names is most common, I think, for slavic names. I endings in Slavic names are more often men's names, I believe. But there was a lot of interchange with Nordic groups, and the line is very blurred there.

[vertigomez]

I'M DEAD THIS IS SO CUTE KILL ME.

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[Cespar]

I'M DEAD THIS IS SO CUTE KILL ME.

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I love it! Hopefully, Brosca and Leliana can start having kids, but that if she stops worrying about saving the world for once. . Honestly, I'm more into Cadash and Cassandra having kids. She needs more happiness in her life.

[Tishina]

I'M DEAD THIS IS SO CUTE KILL ME.

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Love it!

[Andreas Amell]

 

I enjoyed a lot of things about both dwarf origins. There were a lot of little details that went into helping you feel the difference in rank, then the reversal when you return later in the game, like the tavern owner who cheerfully greets a casteless warden (who couldn't have gotten the time of day from anyone before) but who will refuse to serve a noble warden because she liked Trian. All the nobles you can click on and get the sense of people taking sides, including their opinion of a noble warden or your sister if you were casteless. How the losers after someone is crowned are suddenly saying different things. How Dusttown changes if you let Branka have the Anvil. DA:I, well, you have a few people here and there discussing a dwarf as Herald or IQ. A few dwarves at Halam'shiral you can overhear gossip from. Otherwise, you just hear kind of generic remarks.

This is why I think Bioware should make smaller spinoff games. The state of the dwarven empire is a whole bag of cats. And yet it presents concepts worth exploring. You've got a dying civilization that's trying to regain its glory. You've got corruption, inequality, lots of battles around numerous territory to cover. If a confrontation with Kal'Sharok is a possible storyline then it should be contained in a separate game. Who wants to download extra gigabytes for something they can develop as a spinoff?

 

Personally, I have never chosen Bhelen, but that doesn't mean there can't be other developments that don't rely on who is king. The reclaiming of the surrounding thaigs grants many opportunities that can lead to the results mentioned in Inquisition. It's likely many residents of Dust Town left for those thaigs in the hopes of building a better life. That creates a lack of cheap labor in Orzammar that would lead to the food shortages we heard about. Ironically the more territory dwarves regain the closer they are to falling apart. Harrowmont's pro-traditionalist results could be due to his efforts to stop Aeducan loyalists from overthrowing him. The increased isolation from the surface could be his strategy to block more Carta from helping his foes. You can even say that Kal'Hirol lead to a brain drain as more smiths and engineers moved over there.

[Qun00]

I'M DEAD THIS IS SO CUTE KILL ME.

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Is that Morrigan?

[Tishina]

Is that Morrigan?

I'm pretty certain it is.

[Leo]

in Haven you can bonk your head on those low hanging lanterns in the chantry dungeon, it's really weird when that happens with a male dwarf who hasn't even jumped.

[vertigomez]

^Lol! I giggled when that happened with my qunari. I wonder why your dwarf triggered it?

Is that Morrigan?

Yeah, that's Morrigan.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

^Lol! I giggled when that happened with my qunari. I wonder why your dwarf triggered it?

That chandelier has a hitbox the size of a nugalope, that's why. >_>

[Tishina]

That chandelier has a hitbox the size of a nugalope, that's why. >_>

Yeah, if my female dwarves hit it (and they all do) the d****d thing ought to hit in the middle of a qunari's chest or lower. I just decided it was a ghost or something.

[Tishina]

Am I the only member of dwarfdom still hanging on?

[Leo]

Am I the only member of dwarfdom still hanging on?

 

Probably, Dark Souls 3 has been taking up my gametime right now.

[Merela]

Am I the only member of dwarfdom still hanging on?

 

I'm still here, lurking in the shadows.

[Tishina]

I'm still here, lurking in the shadows.

Yeah! Hopefully more of dwarfdom will pop back up once we start getting into summer. I haven't been sucked in by any new games myself yet...

[TobiTobsen]

I'm still here, lurking in the shadows.

 

Same here. The usual lull between games...

[Merela]

Yeah! Hopefully more of dwarfdom will pop back up once we start getting into summer. I haven't been sucked in by any new games myself yet...

 

Myself I've been playing Dragon's Dogma a lot lately. It's really good (and having my character running around in the same armor than Guts of Berserk is both funny and badass ).

[Andraste_Reborn]

I'm currently playing Baldur's Gate for the *mumble*deth time ... as a halfling. (I swear I'm not a traitor to dwarfdom! It's just that the last character I finished BG2 with was a Dwarven Defender, so it's time for something else.)

 

Went back to the start of the campaign after finishing Siege of Dragonspear for the first time yesterday. A lot of fun, if rather linear. The loot is amazing, though.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Yeah! Hopefully more of dwarfdom will pop back up once we start getting into summer. I haven't been sucked in by any new games myself yet...

I exist, but I am currently getting a farm up and running in a place called Stardew Valley and its been taking up my free time.

[GoldenGail3]

Yeah! Hopefully more of dwarfdom will pop back up once we start getting into summer. I haven't been sucked in by any new games myself yet...

I kind of like Dwarves.... They're a nice race to play, but awkwarly enough I've never completed a game of DAI with a dwarf... But, in DAO I was close to doing it with an Aeducan...

[Tishina]

So, lots of people still lurking, yeah! (at least lots for the dwarf thread )

 

Myself I've been playing Dragon's Dogma a lot lately. It's really good (and having my character running around in the same armor than Guts of Berserk is both funny and badass ).

I've been hearing a lot about that one. I don't dare let myself get involved in a new game right now, though...

[Sifr]

Was musing about long-lost dwarf colonies over on a dwarf mage thread the other day;

 

Well, Kal-Sharok have been pretty isolationist and fall into this story niche since we've barely scratched the surface when it comes to them...

 

But I actually like to imagine that perhaps "the Executors" might end up being revealed to be a secretive, long-lost society of Dwarves. Perhaps they built their Thaig underneath a distant island and so were cut off from the rest of Thedas when they flooded their part of Deep Roads to prevent the Darkspawn from reaching them during the First Blight?

 

Alternatively, given their propensity for having been expert sailors and having explored Thedas even prior to the first Blight, it might be interesting if they are the remains of the Kossith society that the Qunari departed (or potentially got exiled) from?

 

Or perhaps even a combination of the two, giving us a long lost Dwarf colony on a distant island, who eventually were discovered, conquered by or allied with the Kossith, who were on the island or landed there? Giving us a bunch of dwarves who'd been fully integrated into a society of proto-Qunari would be an interesting blended culture to explore.

 

Even if it might be far-fetched for distant dwarves and Kossith to have teamed up, a third bunch of dwarves out there would still be cool.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Even if it might be far-fetched for distant dwarves and Kossith to have teamed up, a third bunch of dwarves out there would still be cool.

Yeah, was thinking this, too. At least, teh part abotu them being dwarves, not the qunari angle. But yeah, maybe we'll get Sea Dwarves. lol  Their actions and setup via the war table makes them sound cutthroat enough to give the carta pause, imo. 

 

And, apparently, Varric even decides to bait them in Hard in Hightown?

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"Well, this doesn't look very interesting at all." Maysie frowned, disappointed. " 'What you have claimed belongs to greater powers. You will answer to us.' That's a lot of rubbish." ...

 

"Oh, it's the Executors, of course!" Maysie peered excitedly at the wax seal, holding it up to the window for better light. "I should have guessed it from the silly 'great powers' nonsense. There's only been one example, on the letter claiming responsibility for the assassination of Queen Madrigal in 5:99! And this one is so much better! Just look at that imprint!"

 

"Any idea how I'd contact these 'Executors'?" Donnen asked.

 

"Oh, they're not real, of course. Everyone knows that."

That'll end well. 

 

... We're gonna have to put a protection detail on Varric, aren't we?

[Sifr]

Yeah, Sea Dwarves would rule!

 

And now I think about it, did Bioware double-bluff us lore nerds?

 

We got the threatening letter in Varric's war table mission, but then found out it wasn't anything to do with Worthy. So us lore nerds assumed it was meant for the Inquisition arriving at Skyhold, because it was a holy place to the Ancient Elves, had been attacked by elves before and Solas apparently formed the Veil there in the fortress that he owned...

 

Now I'm wondering if that was to throw us off that it really was meant for Varric after all.

 

Perhaps using them as a plot device in his novel, one that was popular enough to be read all over the place and thus bring them to more attention, irritated them enough to personally break their secrecy to tell him directly that they are not happy campers?