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Westenev

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Unless there is a magic that can tell ones age, I doubt anyone will have surficiant records to prove one's exact age. Moreso if a child is abandoned by some circumstance. I mean, look at all the kids who wormed their way into ww1 because they had mature faces.

That being said, I do think people would begin asking questions if a small immature girl wanted to join.

Unless... does reincarnation magic exist?
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15-Jun-2018 03:43:18

Westenev

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Here's the thing I don't understand: If Dwarves are their usual subterranean misanthropes, why would they want a country to themselves? Wouldn't it make more sense to just claim individual city states inside of rich mines or areas of interest? That way trade would be more efficient with the surface dwelling people. Well, better than sticking your cities out in the cape of nowhere far from your Human trading partners.
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15-Jun-2018 05:34:59

NotFishing

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Westenev said :

Here's the thing I don't understand: If Dwarves are their usual subterranean misanthropes, why would they want a country to themselves? Wouldn't it make more sense to just claim individual city states inside of rich mines or areas of interest?


Because then the local surface dwellers can just stop sending them food and place an army outside their gate to prevent them from leaving. Eventually the dwarves will be forced to submit.

Also, only about a third of their population is underground. The rest is on the surface. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

15-Jun-2018 05:45:44 - Last edited on 15-Jun-2018 05:49:02 by NotFishing

Westenev

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NotFishing said :
Westenev said :

Here's the thing I don't understand: If Dwarves are their usual subterranean misanthropes, why would they want a country to themselves? Wouldn't it make more sense to just claim individual city states inside of rich mines or areas of interest?


Because then the local surface dwellers can just stop sending them food and place an army outside their gate to prevent them from leaving. Eventually the dwarves will be forced to submit.

Also, only about a third of their population is underground. The rest is on the surface.

But they live in plains and forest, which is the ideal place to grow the very thing they seem to need to import (grain). Either they are having a bad harvest, or you're painting dwarves to be incompetent at managing (or unable to manage) their own lands (from my point of view). O_o
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15-Jun-2018 06:01:59 - Last edited on 15-Jun-2018 06:05:11 by Westenev

NotFishing

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Most of it is still hills and mountains. Also their plains aren't that fertile. But they still produce enough food to feed the majority of their population, just not all. There's really not much you can do other than import if the natural resources cannot sustain your population. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

15-Jun-2018 06:12:50 - Last edited on 15-Jun-2018 06:15:02 by NotFishing

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