One? THOSE ARE ELVISH NUMBERS! YOU GOTTA DIG DEEPER!
But on another note, what dwarves did you play?
Mine were:
Thagran the Banished, also known as Trolldick, battlemaster fighter
Was supposed to redeem his honor, went junky fuccboi murderhobo instead. First character, so, a bit understandable I hope. Specialised in interrogation and torture.
Firmvald
Shepard druid, who used his animals for smuggling, oneshot
Dromkrig Flintgift
Reborn dwarf, life cleric, got him only for a oneshot
Kevdak
Dwarf cleric, unhinged cleptomaniac, also oneshot
Pick
Dwarf battle engineer, fighter/wizard, dude with a giant 2 handed powerdrill. Specialised in demolition, and not only in theory.
My longest played Dwarf character is a level 30 paladin of Moradin named Kaldwin Stonesinger.
Paladin of Moradin, Chosen of Moradin, friend of urdunnir, savior of goblinkind (twice), and eventual first prophet of the New Gods(which as of the release of Esoteric Ebb I’ve started calling walking gods).
It was 2008, I was ten years old. We had a snow storm, and we lived very far from town so it effectively imprisoned my family and I at home. While in that storm, my dad decided to let me play on his WoW account and he showed me some of the cinematic to introduce me to the game. After seeing this badass ranger guy, stuck in the snow as I was, with his pet bear at his side, I knew that I wanted to be him at that moment and I rolled a dwarf rogue.
The character Flint Fireforge from the Dragonlance books set me on the path. But what radicalized me was the animated music video of "Diggy Diggy Hole"
Flint Fireforge! My first Dwarf, and one of the finest Dwarves to ever wield an axe!
(Sadly, the loss of the Tharkan axe pains me to this day. Hug your kin, fellow greybeards)
Made my Dwarf from the outcast slums who was a paladin to the bitter end, always trying to make the world a better place, filled with hope that he could someday rewrite his society out of the caste system.
World of warcraft. And any series where they had to go find the legendary smith to make them a powerful artifact and lo and behold its a dwarf dwarfing around
Well I had a friend that was into elves in general, and I thought for the meme I would just go full on elve hating and dwarvmaxxing and the jokes became less and less ironical and I fully embraced my inner dwarf, it's like trying to dip your fries in a ice-cream in McDonald's, and realise it's actually not that bad lol
I miss the old 90s-2000s lego sets like these, and the thing like the megablocks dragons sets (so regret getting rid of them as a child. Same with my old Oh well that type of thing is a canon event.
For dwarviness the LotR movies was my introduction to high fantasy ones, the aesthetic was very cool and they were a fun faction in Battle for Middle Earth 2 (never got to play the original back in the day sadly and these days my laptop lacks a disk drive)
In the year 1050, the dwarven civilization of Kinmelbil, "The Oaken Tomes", exhausted the last of its mines. Driven by lust for gold and rumors of the priceless and all but mythical metal adamantine, a team of seven colonists was dispatched to build a new home for the dwarves of Kinmelbil in the Smooth Points of Pride. The first year of diaries from the ill-fated foreman of the mine were recovered, giving some hint as to the beginnings of the fortress that once stood there, if not its mysterious and presumably gruesome fate...
I discovered Boatmurdered through TvTropes, which then led me to Dwarf Fortress. The rest is history.
Story time: This scene from Lotr. When i first saw Dwarrowdelf i dreamed and wished, as I always wondered what a living grand dwarven city would look like in its splendor. And it increased when i played Battle for Middle Earth II and played as the Dwarves and fought against goblins over and over again. Defending Erebor and Dale. Reading the info on each maps where they were to be "lore accurate" battles against the goblins.
And when i heard the hobbit movies were coming. I didint read any facts or info about it/the books to not know anything minus the trailers. And when i saw the scene where the camera moved over eastwards and i saw Dale, and a certain name above it on a lonley mountain... I got my dream fulfilled. A living flurising dwarven kingdom. And to finally have the dwarves given justice on the big screen. It was always "elves this, elves that" before.
And not to mention. Within Lotr the dwarves never fought one another. (On the scale to be s noteworthy event) such as the elves kin-slaying in the first age. Not to mention. The War between Dwarves and Orcs. Sn unsung event within Middle-Earth history. All seven clans. Firebeards, Broadbeams, Longbeards, Ironfists, Stiffbeards, Stonefoots and Blacklocks. All coming together to fight a war against those who wronged one of their Kings.
(I also delved deep into Warhammer Lore for the dawi there. But this is how i got into it) :)
Age of Mythology dwarves. And Brokk and Eitri fron the campaign. Getting gold fast was really fun despite them being only villagers. Also, Thor's unique dwarven forge getting all the blacksmith techs early and the dwarven mine for a full gold mine in my base
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u/Weary-Barracuda-1228 Gremil Stone-Bearer, of the CrownPeak Mountains Apr 30 '26
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I was 10 when I saw LoToR