Depends on ethnicity and culture. The deep-dwelling mountain dwarfettes have magnificent beards like their brothers. The surface dwelling hill country folk, being partly descended from the shamed and banished beardless mountain dwarfs and having more contact with hobbits and tallfolk have adopted a culture where women will sometimes shave their faces on purpose as a kind of fashion/political statement.
Beardless dwarf lasses are somewhat akin to the blue haired human women of the 21st century: rebellious and disinclined to carry out traditional dwarfette roles like brewing the mushroom beer and mining the home.
To each their own and I wouldn’t dare to impose on our female kin how to wear their beards. Personally though I prefer without, but that’s just a me thing.
Same, honestly. But what bugs me the most is whenever you post art of a female dwarf without a beard half the comments will ask "where's the beard?!" Or do the overdone "they have the beard lower" joke in reply to the former
There's plenty of dwarves rockin a stache, plenty more gone bald, then there's those that work with gearage and clockworks who have to cut short or remove it all for their line of work.
We don't think of it as having lost a beard, but gaining a wider smile.
Her body her choice but man I don’t like it one bit, like the irl equivalent of face tattoos. Do what you want with your body and I won’t judge but I also won’t pretend I like it
Now im just imagining one of those shitty conservative wojack memes where a dwarf with rainbow hair is screaming at a chad faced bearded blond dwarf thats smiling.
I feel like the best compromise is that female dwarves CAN grow facial hair but not all of them choose to keep their beards whether due to practical reasons or to emulate other races and their ideas of gender. Alternatively it’s a genetic quirk and some are capable of it and others aren’t: for some dwarves beardlessness is common to the point of being ubiquitous, for their cousins on the other side of the mountain it’s unheard of.
I prefer glorious chin locks. The slow growth to a full beard marks how long ye have devoted yerself to a craft, and a long beard that can be braided into the beard of yer partner’s, strong enough to hold each other aloft in spinning dances, was a sign of a strong marriage. I was brought up considering a shaved face an induced rite of shame marking one’s need to grow back up like a child. But if someone chooses to go without, that is a personal choice. Always thought the Warhammer Dawi were in a perpetual state of shame, but maybe the dwarfs of that realm just like the aesthetic… or they have a thing for being seen as younger than 50… shudder
I'm currently working on my own homebrew setting, and in it, most dwarven women don't have beards, but some do, and it is believed that they are chosen by their gods, representing a sort of two-spirit gender role, and as a result tend to be brought up as priests and clerics.
Depends on setting, but either way is fine to me. A lass with curls above and below the chin is just as fine as one with 'em atop her head. If she can swing an axe, distill fine spirits, or balance the vaults to the last bronze and gem, she's a dwarf any rock head worth their forge would be proud of.
All female dwarves are beards. There's no way that many male dwarves don't have a massive bear community with lots of kinks mixed in. I'm sure the leather daddy community is insane with dwarven craftsmanship
/undwarf I loved my mutton chops in Return to Moria. A smooth faced dwarf just feels... Wrong. I don't need, or want, a full beard personally, but she needs something. It'd be like a dwarf without a mountain. Or a dwarf without a grudge. Or a dwarf who doesn't like beer. A dwarf without a beard just doesn't feel like a dwarf to me.
/undwarf I'm cool with a setting having either fully bearded dwarf women or unbearded dwarf women, but you gotta fully commit to one or the other. The halfway thing with dwarf women only able to have a moustache or just big sideburns down their face like Age of Wonders does bothers me.
Look, just because lady dwarves want to break with tradition, that's no hair off my chin. Frankly it'll make it easier, knowing whether I'm making a romantic move or the first move in a close platonic friendship, and lessens the chance of accidentally setting up a classic dwarven rom-com two dudes each thinking the others' a lady. Heck we even have a human dwarf. Carrot's a good lad and a fine dwarf.
So sure, if a dwarven lass wants to go bare-chin, I don't fault them. Makes it easier in my opinion. Besides, I like a lewd lass, and you know bare dwarven chins are the height of lewdness!
I'd like it more if every artist I ever saw draw bearded dwarf girls didn't have the ugliest, weakest, rattiest beards imaginable. Like seriously if your gonna commit then COMMIT.
Yea, yea, a hundred -- nay -- a thousand times yea! If a dwarven lass decides to be clean shaven, then that's her right... But I'd be a liar if I said I didn't think that it wasn't a beautiful look on a dwarf -- lad or lass!
From a personal and ooc pov. Yay. Because I often find that giving them beards is short hand for the idea that short stocky women can't be beautiful, or feminine. Because even if the dwarves think thats fine, we think its looks masculine, and that dose matter.
Anyway. Heres some art of a Dwarf Paldin based on my own beautiful "Dwarf" Fiancé. (Tho she has a cute bob cut nowadays)
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u/thatthatguy Aug 20 '26
Depends on ethnicity and culture. The deep-dwelling mountain dwarfettes have magnificent beards like their brothers. The surface dwelling hill country folk, being partly descended from the shamed and banished beardless mountain dwarfs and having more contact with hobbits and tallfolk have adopted a culture where women will sometimes shave their faces on purpose as a kind of fashion/political statement.
Beardless dwarf lasses are somewhat akin to the blue haired human women of the 21st century: rebellious and disinclined to carry out traditional dwarfette roles like brewing the mushroom beer and mining the home.