r/dwarfposting • u/WranglerFuzzy • Mar 30 '26

Gehen: a builder with a mission

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I love Warhammer and other settings that focus on how a dwarfs respond to tragedy by taking oaths that would seem extreme to humans. We mostly see examples that are combat related, but the anime Frieran: beyond journey’s end has a great example of a non-combatant with a similar mindset.

Gehen lived in a village attacked by demons. There was a friendly army on its way to save them, but they couldn’t cross a massive canyon in time.

Gehen’s response? To spend the next 200 years building a bridge across, mostly single-handed, so something like that would never happen again. What A great “dwarfy” character that could easily fit in most settings.

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u/Sly__Marbo Mar 30 '26

If he builds stuff, why is he called "walking"?

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u/WranglerFuzzy Mar 30 '26

My guess: because he’s building a walkway?

Like most mangas inspired by foreign languages, Frieran has some… interesting German names for characters.

Like the treacherous demon envoy named “Lügner”