History and dwarves

From: richard <richard.develyn_at_nwpeople.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 14:15:54 +0100


It strikes me that if we really wanted to find out what had actually happened many years ago in Glorantha, we should ask a dwarf.

If I've understood these little guys correctly: they're technicians. So keeping written records must be very important to them.

These records must also be truthful, accurate, and as detailed as possible.

Furthermore, I reckon very few dwarves lie (i.e. tell lies), since I can't see why they should be programmed to do something so counter-productive to their function. It is possible that they lie to non-dwarves as a sort of security feature - but I reckon you could probably break this.

The only dwarves which I reckon lie are gold ones specialising in non-dwarven communications (and I imagine lying is simply seen as part of the communication process).

So ... if you were able to get yourself a rock dwarf, or a gold one who wasn't wised up to telling fibs, who was sufficiently capable, and you dressed up as a dwarf (or whatever you have to do to get past any security feature), and you asked him to tell you everything about the Spike (say), you would find out pretty much everything there is to know about it with as much true historical accuracy as it is possible to get.

Has anyone done this?

A couple more dwarfy questions:

Are the workings of the world machine all underground? Why don't we see them wandering about above ground with their slide-rules, tape measures, clip-boards, etc?

Elder Secrets says that a diamond X dwarf has 9 skills at 2000% !!! Seems a bit excessive to me - are such skill levels always possible? A diamond iron dwarf could murder everything in Dorastor, couldn't it?

Cheers

Richard
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