#warhammer dwarves

[mumblingsofanerd]

I've been playing some Total War: Warhammer again recently and I'll admit my knowledge of Warhammer fantasy is pretty much exclusively from that game but as presented in Total War, I really love Warhammer Dwarves. Not like mechanically in game but just like the vibe and lore. I'm not sure I can properly explain it but they are just so perfectly Dwarfy to me. They just feel like dwarves, no other depiction gives me such a simple yet profound sense of yes that is a dwarf. Like they got big beards and are proud of them, strong sense of honor, live in mountain holds, great smith's, traditionalist and yet innovative they are everything I expect a dwarf to be a very few things I don't and even the things that aren't super typical dwarf traits like grudges and Slayers just make sense to me. They fit the vibe in a way that almost feels inevitable. I guess this is really just my long winded Marge Simpson "I think they're neat" meme but I don't know a lot about Warhammer fantasy and in a lot of ways I don't really care to know that much about Warhammer Fantasy but they absolutely nailed dwarves 10/10 no notes

[clevermird]

Review: Daemonslayer  by William King

Okay, I haven't been totally won back, but this book was better than Skavenslayer for sure. 

Daemonslayer is the third book in the adventures of dwarf Trollslayer Gotrek and his chronicler, witness, and semi-reluctant human partner in crime Felix. The pair is roped into a secretive dwarf expedition that will pit them against the most terrifying of forces in the Old World - Chaos. Near-certain death is no deterrent for a Slayer, after all, especially when there's a chance to settle old grudges in the mix. 

After Trollslayer's anthology structure and Skavenslayer's weird hybrid model, this book is the first proper novel in the series, and it's a net positive for the book. Skavenslayer's repetitive structure, with the same story loop followed over and over, isn't as much of a problem here, and it allows for more development of some of the side characters and concepts than individual short stories. The skaven take a back seat, but fans of Thanquol and Lurk will get a few entertaining scenes thrown their way as well. This wasn't a deep read, but I found it a fun, light-reading adventure story, a sort of literary potato chips. 

That being said, the book still isn't perfect. The pacing is strange - it feels like more page count is dedicated to the opening bar fight than to the final "boss battle", and the ending is rushed. There are a couple of interesting characters who kind of just drop out of the narrative without really doing anything. I hope that this is setup for future books, and if so, I will retract this complaint, but for this book, it just felt like Chekov's gun never fired. Overall, while I still wouldn't catapult this series to the "love" category, I'll be returning for Dragonslayer. It just probably won't be a very high priority. 

Rating: 3.25/5

[oldschoolfrp]

Elves and dwarves assault a castle of chaos, in a miniature battle scene from Casus Belli 44, April 1988

[swedebeast]

Dwarf concept art for Warhammer Fantasy Battles 4th edition, 2004, by Mark Gibbons.

[fromcommorragh]

Leagues of Votann by Hugo Llera on twitter

[japo-orbo]

[andysuriano]

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[farsight-the-char]

The White Dwarf (WD #500 cover), by Johan Grenier

Unified Dorfs for 4th Edition (or at least, better rules allies), I can feel it.

[kaarls-repository-of-grudges]

Belegar was my first favorite dwarf lord only overtaken by Grombrindal overtime. I now have my 2 favorite dwarf lords in Warhammer.

All I need now is Malakai Makaisson!

[amorphousbl0b]

Something that I think people need to acknowledge is that the entire Dwarves vs Elves debate is just whether you prefer bears or twinks

[madmeks]

DWARVES IN SPAAAAACE!!!

Just got my copy of The High Kâhl's Oath by Gav Thorpe.

[cswiftrock]

The ancestors' new champion

[feletida]

Elves are terrific. They beget terror.

[lin-squiggly]

confession

I love Dwarves, especially space Dwarves like the Leagues of Votann

I HATE Dwarf memes, like, despise them. I hate how creatively restricted Dwarves in fiction are by them, I hate most of all that a few series, distilled down to their hyperbolic extremes, define Dwarves in modern fiction and deviation from that cultural head canon always either faces push-back or the memes are slapped on it like a bad paint job on a new car.

Why do Dwarves have to be booze loving drunkards? why do they have to live in mountain cities and mine greedily? why do they have to hold unending grudges and hate elves? why do they need to be grumpy master crafts-folk who fight with axes? why do they need to have massive beards?

I dunno I just wish fictional Dwarves could separate themselves from the memes, let them be more than a rough homogeneous mix of beer, elf racism, grumpiness and beards. There's so much cool stuff to do with Dwarves in fiction, heck, even within the bounds of older myth, if they were just allowed to be.

[dagaz-s-disastrous-descent]

GW doesn't get enough credit for how they have crafted their dwarves in WHFB's fluff. Unlike in other IPs they are not just little bearded people who talk funny and care only about two things in life: beer and killing elves. They are utterly alien creatures who, while having some similarities with humans, don't think and function like them. For dwarves, every memory is as fresh as if it happened minutes ago, which is both a blessing and a curse. Perfect memory gives you the ability to create works of engineering, but it also makes every wound and every slight against you feel like something you have to address because otherwise the pain will never go away, and it will remain with you till you die. That's where slayers come from: dwarves who have shame so great it leads them to being dead while alive, sheding their past and their future to atone for their, most of the time, percived grave mistakes. It can be a thing truly great and dire, like allowing an enemy to infiltrate your hold and kill your loved ones, or something petty, like creating inferior armor that did not meet your master's standards.

[vitamaeternum]

Forgot to post these earlier but I've been slowly and steadily working on my Votann models and have these guys slowly starting to get done (there's still some stuff I want to finish on them) but I figured I would share them.