Im not at all sure I agree with this - given the extremely rigid nature of the mostali and their castes I don't think that they do have much of any other skills outside their caste. They are all part of the world machine. Does a piston need to know how to act as a cog or gear? I view the dwarves as being the very opposite of generalists.
> In addition, as an Ancient Mostali, I find it entirely possible that
> Isidilian the Quicksilver Mostali had some rock dwarfs, gold dwarfs, etc
> with him, to help carve up the statue.
This is far more plausible - but does away for any need for Isilidian to be any form of generalist.
> So, even discounting the fact that Isidilian is firmly in print as a
> Quicksilver Mostali, and that the evidence for him being Flintnail is
> quite strong,
Well, if you could present some of that evidence then maybe we could come to agree with you...
Cheers,
Yak
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Dave Pearton
pearton_at_u.washington.edu
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"The Hunting of the Snark" Lewis Carroll +
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