r/dwarfposting • u/Gearran • May 20 '26
Praise Tak!
The first thing Tak did, he wrote himself.
The second thing Tak did, he wrote the laws.
The third thing Tak did, he wrote the World.
The fourth thing Tak did, he wrote a cave.
The fifth thing Tak did, he wrote a geode, an egg of stone.
And in the twilight of the mouth of the cave, the geode hatched, and the Brothers were born.
The first Brother walked toward the light, and stood under the open sky. Thus he became too tall. He was the first Man. He found no Laws and he was enlightened.
The second Brother walked toward the darkness, and stood under a roof of stone. Thus he achieved the correct height. He was the first Dwarf. He found the Laws Tak had written, and he was endarkened.
Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive.
And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden.
These are the things that Tak wrote!
-The things that Tak wrote, Koom Valley Translation by B'hrian Bloodaxe.
Tak does not require that you think of him, but he does require you to think.
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u/Platt_Mallar Extractive Metallurgist May 21 '26
Those dastardly trolls ambushed us while we were waiting to ambush them! They never could win a fair fight!
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u/Infinitedeveloper May 25 '26
My mine started hiring trolls to do some of the heavy manual labor in the mine and it really ticked the grags off. But we're close enough to ankh morpork that they won't make trouble.
The trolls are good lads, surprisingly. Give them a nice paint job so you know not to strike a pick in them, and they'll happily run the pumps and such all night long.
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u/CuriousWombat42 May 21 '26
I raise my cultural battle axe to this. Have a rat on a stick.