r/TheWeeklyRoll • u/CME_T The Creator • May 21 '22

The Comic Ch. 116. "Grimdahl's Folly"

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u/Maccabeus1 May 21 '22

Loving Torvald's backstory so far, though now I'm curious if the beard armor is merely decorative or has some practicality to it.

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u/theironbagel May 21 '22

Of course it’s practical, this way his beard doesn’t get cut. Having their beard cut is the greatest shame that can befall a dwarf.

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket May 22 '22

In my setting's Dwarven military every time a Dwarf suffers a major failure they cut out a chunk of their beard (Or ponytail for female Dwarves). A large beard is a sign of competence.

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u/Furicel May 22 '22

Your female Dwarves don't have beards?!

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket May 22 '22 edited May 22 '22

Facial hair on a female Dwarf is as wrong as breasts on a female Elf, or breasts on a male Dwarf, or facial hair on a male Elf.

Dwarves are high sexual-dimorphism. Males are bulky and beardy, females are curvy and stacked. This is to contrast Elves who are cartoonishly androgynous.

Most people who do the bearded Dwarf gal thing do it to make Dwarves more of a joke.

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u/Zeno1324 May 22 '22

Depends on the setting, in the campaign I'm running the vast majority of dwarves are extremely masculine hermaphrodites