#I'm kind of extrapolating the effects of the rite on children

[meeeeeeese]

Seeing the dwarves in [place name redacted for spoilers] made me realise how fucked up the rite of the great dwarf was. They don't touch on it that much but that magic spared nobody. What I'm getting at, though they don't show it in game, is that dwarvan children and infacts were turned to stone along with the rest of the population. And along with the rest, they'd have been compelled to march into the depths to face the destroyers. They were probably some of the first to fall against the destroyer horde...

They kind of delved into the non-willing participants of the rite in forging steel with the stone summit dwarves but honestly there's a whole gold mine of story potential there, so I hope they do more on it.