All this discussion of joining one of the elder races has started me thinking on what it would take to become a Dwarf or Clay Mostali.
I do not believe that Mostali go in for trollish disection or aldryami replanting.
I guess that they are more interested in the applicant functioning
properly
and helping to repair the world machine as a good dwarf should.
My theory is that there are no surgical body modifications.
The applicant must first demonstrate there friendship and desire to
become a dwarf.
Then they are taught the skills necessary to begin functioning as a very
junior
member of the caste that has been chosen for them. Then they are set to
work as
a member of the cast. Typically this will envolve tending the same
machine on
every work period for a large number of years. This continues until
they have
either become a dwarf, got bored and left or died of old age...
I would view the life in tunnels, hard work, lack of sunlight and the
diet of
dwarf-food as having something to do with the gradual transformation
into
the stumpy, short limbed, sturdy and strong, short sighted, stone boned
specicies.
Cheers
Lewis
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