#surface dwarf

[vangold]

Finally more Dragon Age for this Inktober, Yaya! :D

Welp, that one's a bit late again, however, I'm honestly glad I took my time here, since.....heh, boi I actually nailed this one XD

Decided to simple plant the PC's of the P&PRPG Inquisition I'm playing with my folks at the war table and simple let them do their thing. Took some inspiration from this gorgeous piece of artwork and simply sprincled some bits of the game's wartable-room into the background. Sou yeah, I think I couldn't present these 4 dorks better in a nutshell than I did here XDDD

Tho let me introduce from left to right:

On the left we have our party's mage Farel. Former Dalish and now apostate (and if I remember right actually the youngest of the party), just as usual facepalming in the background about the attics of his companions.

Sharles here in the middle you probably have seen before (my PC ^__^). Proud Fereldan Rogue from Redcliffe, as usual blubbering random bs. Not sure if he's ranting bout how Orlais sucks, how Dorian is hot or just giving random silly comments about the current topic.

Next to him we have Dolph, our Inquisitor. Snakeoil-Conm- sorry - "totally not shady Merchant" from Orzammar. As usual reconsidering his life choices and wondering how Sharles keeps coming up with this crap XD

And last but not least we have our muscle on two little feet, Borzag. Surface dwarf, Mercenary and master in bitchslapping people with axe and shield, tho currently busy slapping the table while howling in laughter, probably still audible on the other side of Skyhold.

And with that I FINALLY finally now managed to give these four a worthy and proper group picture.

Currently we are approaching the end of our campaign, but I will deeply enjoy these guys while the story still lasts. Feels like we played this campaign for ages, it's an absolute joy tho to revisit Inquisition's plot with that alternative story line ^__^

#inktober #dragonage #dragon age inquisition #Pen and Paper RPG #Inquisitor Dolph #Dolph #Fereldan #Orzammar Dwarf #Surface Dwarf #Dalish #Dragon Age XD-Timeline #Sharles #Sharles of Redcliffe #Borzag #Farel #Rogue #Mage #Warrior #Inktober Challenge #Inktober 2023 #Inktober Day 5 #Day 5 #Inktober Day 5 Map #Map #Wartable #Inquisition #Inquisitor

[0dracoagec]

“I may be Casteless, but underground I feel a connection with the stone.”

Kove Tethras

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #female dwarf #inquisitor of colour #carta dwarf #inquisitior cadash #dwarf inquisitor #surface dwarf #koy cadash #kova cadash #faceapp #anime camera filter #kove Tethras

[bravest-notts]

i spotted vax peering over the edge of my ottoman while we were playing dnd, so my DM made this (while still running a fight no less)--

"Meow do you want to do this?"

#not cr #the restful goose #a very eventful day #we figured out that the demons have sent a strike force to the material plane to get the fire orb we're after #and also that the expansionist hobgoblin element we've run into in the dwarf tunnels below ground #is also on the surface and probably also going after the orb #so we're like. okay #what if we make them aggro the dragon who has it #and we run in and kill steal #i am sure this will go fine

[sboochi]

Little Mermaid inspired AU!

Drawing fish people is fun :)

#it contradicts what I drew but I was thinking snow would make a deal with the sea witch (regina) #and she gets a pair of legs to search for her father on the surface #but in exchange she must make someone genuinely fall in love with her #regina curses her to also become skinnier so that's a bit of a problem when everybody is so fixated on her body and not her personality #red shoes and the seven dwarfs #red shoes and the 7 dwarfs #my art

[thekingofwinterblog]

Varric Tethras - The Proud Dwarf

So it's not a big secret that the best companion Bioware ever created was Varric Tethras, the lovable rogue, crossbowman, author and handsome Viscount of Kirkwall.

There are ao many reasons to love Varric, but one I don't see much discussed, is the subtle, and contradictory relationship Varric has with his own race, the Dwarves of Thedas.

Varric makes it a point of always putting his seeming disdain for his own people out in the open, always making it clear how much he dislikes the traditional Dwarven culture, wqy of life and so on.

He describes Orzammar, one of the great wonders of the world as cramp tunnels filled with shit and body odor, he never fails to mention how much he hates the deep roads, and he often mocks dwarven pride at any opportunity with his usual wit and charm.

On the surface, Varric might seem like he has a lot in common with Sera and her racist views on all elvhen kind, but that really, really is not the case.

Because under that exterior of seeming disdain, is a man who both understands Dwarven Culture in all it's flaws, but also loves it and hates it in equal measures.

Varric has always made it clear how much he loved the Hanged man, and essentially made his room there his office, his real home away from the uber dwarfish merchant guild.

And do you know what he fills it with?

The dwarfiest architecture you can imagine. Varric has a dwarf table, a noble dwarf chair, dwarven artwork on the wall, and even a dwarven stone bed.

All expensive and traditional stuff which he would have had to had personally paid for to transport into this room out of his own pocket.

Varric for all his harsh words on the Dwarven people, WANTS to live in a home that looks utterly Dwarven.

The most obvious moment that puts Varric's love for his dwaf ancestry on full display is of course the act 2 quest from da2, where he and an insane(temporary lucid) Bartrand has a heart to heart where both puts their real feelings on the tragedy of their situation on display.

Varric chastises Bartrand for in his madness having thrown away every bit of his dwarven nobility and honor on a stupid trinket, and Bartrand ends up begging his brother not to let house Tethras fall with him, in this display of utter madness and dishonor.

The entire thing is a deeply tragic display where the two brothers show that deapite all their differences, they really did love each other deeply, as well as the fact they had a shared love of their ancestry as Orzammar Nobility.

Of course Varric almost never comes out and says it nearly this clearly anywhere else, as showcased in another side quest where you give him back the Tethras family signet ring that Bartrand had to pawn to finance the expedition.

He doesn't come out and say it, instead focusing on the bad aspects of Orzammar in this quest, but unless hawke is rivaling him when he gives him the quest, varric has a huge approval boost in response to getting his family ring back, showing the thing really did mean a lot to him, despite his disparaging it and Orzammar in said quest.

Later, in Inquisition, Varric never misses a chance to badmouth Orzammar and tradition, but he reacts with incredible sadness at the prospect of Orzammar one day possibly falling.

When Solas asks him about Dwarven literature, and whether there is a lot of Dwarven tricksters, varric gives a smartass remark summing it up as Dwarves tend to write how they want the world to be, while humans write how they think the world is, eith the latter being clearly superior.

It's a good scene, but it has a deeper meaning that ties into Varric's deeper views on Dwarven culture.

Varric knows how Dwarves write, because he has read Dwarven liturature, and understands it completely as both a dwarf, a reader, and a writer, and how it in turn differs from human literature.

For all his grumbling on dwarves in Orzammar being obsessed with their ancestors, he himself is the exact same way as shown in legacy when you find the original Tethras and gives him to the stone, able to shortly remember every bit of his own family lore on the spot and being moved to tears by the tragedy of it all.

Varric defends both surface dwarves and Orzammar dwarves against Solas accusation that they have given up against the darkspawn threat, though in his usual way, he makes it out like surface dwarves are clearly superior.

Varric genuinely loves and cares about so much of Dwarven culture and history, and he understands it deeply.

Which in turn also is the reason he genuinely hates so much about it.

Like all of the DA2 companions, Varric has something he is deeply, deeply obsessed with, something that drives him as a person, and motivates his actions through the entire story. The difference between him and everyone else, is that this obsession never reached a conclusion, because Varric doesn't get to actually face it, and confront it.

That obsession is, of course, the Dwarven Merchant Guild.

Varric HATES the Dwarven Merchant guild, and though he uses his regular humor to portray it, in this case it's actually the opposite of the way he will always be critical of the Dwarven people. Because Varric hates the guild far, far more than he ever pretends to hate Orzammar.

Varric always talks of how shitty the guild is, how it embodies the absolute worst parts of dwarven culture, and essentially how it ruined Bartrand from ever being able to function as anything other than a cutthroat businessman. He time, and time, and time again, refuses to interact with the guild, breaks the law hard to not have to participate, and all in all cold shoulders them and their cutthroat culture completely.

There is a very important, significant moment in act 3, that is incredibly easy to miss, but completely recontextualizes varric's entire motivation for wanting the deep roads expedition.

Varric talks about the real reason why Bartrand wanted to go through with the expedition, of how it represented the one chance he had to get AWAY from the guild forever, just by being rich enough he no longer had to deal with them anymore.

Varric portrays it as Bartrand's big wish and motivation, hut it's incredibly obvious if one pays attention that this was a wish the two brothers actually shared, a mutual desire in the world. Which in turn is one of the reasons why Varric is so incredibly angry at his brother when he goes off the deep end due to the idol and betrays them.

Him and Bartrand got into this venture to finally, once and for all get out of having to deal with the worst parts of surface Dwarf society, and here his brother seemingly willingly turned his back on all of that, showing the only thing he ever cared about was pure greed.

In other words, everything both he and Bartrand hated about the Merchant Guild.

Varric hates the Caste system. He hates the division between surface and "regular" dwarves, and he thinks Orzammar's nobility has a collective stick up it's ass. And yet despite all of that, he loves the Dwarves. He loves the idea of nobility and the ideals it is supposed to represent, he loves Dwarven architecture, their grand ability to make shit, and the incredible grit and romanticism about the Dwarves long, unending struggle against the darkspawn.

The only part of Dwarven society Varric has no love for, is the Merchant Guild. It is Orzammar's nobility without anything resembling virtues, nobles who lost their caste, and yet still enforces a brutal hierarchy of blood, and cares for no ideals, no honor, no cause, except for the clink of money.

Varric is such a deep character, and I really wish that in the future, we get to see this aspect of him fleshed out even more.

#dragon age inquisition #varric tethras #meta #dragon age 2 #dwarves #dwarf #orzammar #surface dwarves #castes #dwarven pride

[dwarvendiaries]

Glazednourishes, 4th of Granite Year 14

This is an affront to common sense; Observe the giant ball made of logs. Even so, this has solved the accommodation issues so all the dwarves (and humans) have their own rooms.

I had to go into stonesense's init file and change the fog alpha so the ground was visible in this picture.

#dwarf fortress #glazednourishes #stonesense #dorf fort #df classic #dfhack #fortress mode #surface building

[ghostlyalbacore]

This Pangolin has been locked in eternal struggle with the coral web spewing mountain titan that's been plaguing my fort for the past bit. Multiple mercenaries and wandering adventurers and assorted migrants have died to this titan, inflicting the laundry list of wounds seen. But this fucking Pangolin? She keeps getting webbed, stunned, knocked into a wall, grabbed ungrabbed and only comes out bruised???? I've managed to set up an airlock (that I'm considering setting up a bridge atomizer in or luring the forgotten beast in to harvest webs from) to easily detain the thing but I don't think it's ever going to wander off.

#dwarf fortress #okay so this has been going on nearly two seasons #As far as I'm concerned the mountain titan is an unstoppable force #and the pangolin is an immovable object #at least the tree farm is nearly up and running if I can't ever touch the surface again

[breadedsinner]

At some point, hearing about yet another "my Inquisitor was so hurt when they found out Blackwall lied!!!" will compel me to write Rota/Thom in the direct aftermath of the reveal. I can make it so much WORSE.

#DA Tag #I just think it could go to some more interesting places others than 'lies are bad' #I have to imagine a surface dwarf all but forced into crime #Would have a MUCH different idea of justice than most people in the Inner Circle or anyone in Orlais

[peppermintgrim]

*blows a kiss to my computer* this one's for you, Aldith Sereda Wilhelmine Aeducan, kinslayer & kingmaker

#dragon age #more vague shit about my cracked au in the tags #if I got a nickel everytime I was instrumental in crowning a king I'd have two nickels #thinking about my multi-warden au and its gotten way out of hand #might seperate the tags into a coherent post at some point #In this au all warden origins (with some changes) live and make it to osagar - Mahariel is the 'canon warden' so to speak #Aeducan and Brosca escape the deep roads together bump into Bodahn and Sandal and head south with them. #Hereswith Brosca is her new second by default #“There is not a dwarf in Orzammar not born into a Darkspawn siege – this war is in our blood as surely it will be in the stone when we die” #let's be real this blight never ended for the dwarfs - start numbering them infront of dwarves and you'll get spat at girlie #just because the darkspawn stopped bothering you surface chumps doesn't mean they stopped for the Stone's sake #Aldith supporting Bhelen's claim to the throne for Hereswith and so he owes her one #this au I'm never going to write is ridiculous though - I've practically co-opted the Wit from RotE -I mean in my canon playthrough also oo #Amell in this is a Blood Mage/Spirit Healer and I have decided to fuse a the spirit of Valour and the Desire demon at Redcliffe #tempered by Amell to be Sacrifice rather than Conquest - canon who I don't know her? #Oh and Aeducan is literally a Spirit Warrior because I think it's pretty dope concept - she also becomes Queen of Ferelden btw #learning things through the song - of wardens long fallen to the taint #you know the fereldens would jump at the chance to hold something over orlais #and how better to do that with a marriage alliance with the only legal producer of lyrium? Loghain weeps with joy from his grave #I've decided completely against canon to make Cousland a warrior/mage fusion bc it's a lawless wasteland meet my Templar/Battlemage #is she /you know/ fade sensitive? #Surana is a shapeshifter/arcane warrior/entropy mage - man cannot conjure anything for shit #crows (actual birds not zevran) love him - templars fear him #Reaver Beserker Mahariel ankle deep in a Morrigan romance #Vunora Tabris is also here with Slyfoot the wolf

[inscrutablemachine]

So, This Happened, NOW WITH SURFACE KOBOLDS!

I have retired the successful older fortress because SURFACE KOBOLDS.

I noticed while making the last one, that you can put buildings on floors in the modern version, and that means easy surface building!  Behold some of the first screenshots of my castle!

It’s working!  The castle is much bigger than this now, and I only go underground to mine and farm.  In theory, there is nothing to stop anyone from building elevated farms and pumping water up to muddy the floors, and relying only on surface crops.  Maybe later I will add that to an upper floor and abandon underground farming.  I’ll think about it.

I made a priority of walling the castle off ENTIRELY, and if I have to expand on ground level, I add the new exterior, THEN open it up to the interior and do interior building.  It works:  An undead siege stood around scratching their heads.

Blocks.  It takes SO MANY BLOCKS to do this, especially if you like a consistent aesthetic theme.  I couldn’t do it if it weren’t for making wooden blocks for floors, 4 blocks per log.

Further posts will feature actual adventures in this new surface world!

#Dwarf Fortress #Kobold Fortress #kobold #surface building #megaproject

[darthkvznblogs]

What does Thanos think of species that don't fit his worldview? Like the Pyronites, who live on a star and therefore are not wasting the resources of a planet.

Well, they may not consume the same kind of resources that organics do, but they still consume something. Living organisms (those that develop naturally, as opposed to manufactured synthetics like Geth or the Mechamorphs) don't just exist; they are born, they grow, they reproduce, and they die. Obviously, these functions take different forms for different species, but in the end, they still follow these rules in some way.

In a sense, a species like the Pyronites would be worse; the resources they require are even more rare than those of organics (who can typically share food somewhat safely and have a much wider range of habitats they can live in) so in Thanos' eyes, they're destined for collapse even quicker than the rest.

(Of course, that is the issue here; this is Thanos' opinion. And sure, many species throughout the centuries have ended themselves in a similar way to the people of Titan. But many have also found workarounds, solved their problems and avoided extinction - not that this knowledge would sway the Mad Titan. I think Thanos can justify pretty much anything he does in his crusade, because at the end of the day, he enjoys the killing just a bit more than he values the living)

#ask box #anon ask #kryptonverse #side note #pyros is not a star #it's a hot jupiter #aka a brown dwarf or failed star #while pyronites could comfortably walk on the surface of any star #no matter how hot #...stars don't have a surface to walk on #neither do gas giants admittedly #but the landmasses on pyros are actually the remains of captured satellites and small planets that got a bit too close

[bapzap]

my greatest power is that i can talk for hours about the most inane nonsense about media i'm interested in

my greatest flaw is that i will talk for hours about the most inane nonsense about media i'm interested in

#sorry everyone who has ever had to listen to me rant about the way the splatoon 2 octo expansion section where you reach the surface #has a callback to the wii u start up process to represent agent 8 joining the rest of inkopolis for the first time #and into her first turf war against tartar #also sorry everyone i've ranted to about how cool dwarf fortress's legend gamemode works #also sorry everyone x3 for talking about deltarune #i will do it again

[agoosehonkingintothevoid]

Playing dwarf fortress and I have no idea why, but about half my visitors went crazy and started attacking my dwarfs? A couple if my dwarves died but mostly it was a complete bloodbath.

My best guess is it was somehow linked to the artefact theft attempt that happened at the same time somehow?

Anyway the corpses have been cleaned up so uh. I guess that's all fine?

#dwarf fortress #i was so busy watching the dwarf Id happened to catch walking out of the artefact room with a giant gem that I didnt notice the fighting #first I was aware was him dropping the gem to beat a frog person (or something) to death #now trying to engrave every surface my legendary engraver can reach cos dwarves are unhappy about all the corpses they saw

[idledoll]

Both of the hamsters' nails have been looking extremely long lately, so I've been steeling myself to cut them (I'd like to at least give it a go before having to take them to the vets).

I just pulled Egg out of her cage after getting everything ready, scruffed her and flipped her over...only to find her nails are the perfect length. Suddenly. Somehow.

I guess she got tired of them being long and decided to bite them a bit shorter? Who knows, who cares, I'm just glad I don't have to trim them because wow was I dreading it.

Now I just have to wait for Bathrick to wake up and then it's his turn. His nails are way worse -- I have no idea why he doesn't wear his down like hamsters are supposed to -- so I doubt I'll be granted clemency twice. Wish me luck.

#hnnnngh I am not looking forward to it #one of the many reasons I love syrians is they bite their nails so you don't have to do this #dwarfs usually wear theirs down naturally on rough surfaces #but I guess Bathrick is one of the odd hamsters who doesn't do...any of these things #Egg had an excuse #she's old #why Bathrick why #The Hambones

[dwarvendiaries]

News from Glazednourishes year 11, Summer

Our new tavern draws in new guests. Yes we hired a bard, we need someone to keep all our 9 residents entertained.

Oh I see that's how it is.

I refuse of course, Slyriddle is one of the three best artifacts we have.

#we have only 5 #glazednourishes #surface fortress #dwarf fortress #v0.47.05

[limendesign]

Dwarf Cook 3D Model | Video Game Character Design

#b3d #blender #3d art #3d artist #hard surface #3d cgi #prop #video game #character design #dwarf #cook #cooking tools