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In this digital painting, the artist pokes fun at the often exaggerated design of weapons in fantasy games.

“Show Me Your Wares” by onlychasing-safety: http://bit.ly/2LuC6cE

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hey, fantasy and historical writers!! Just a quick thing but uh, you know your blacksmiths? yeah? okay, so,they don’t just make weapons. Like, the  general village blacksmith was a person who made kitchen utensils, latches for gates, pots, cauldrons, candle holders — lots of stuff! 

Your blacksmith can make some awesome swords, yeah, but swords were generally useful for like, people with armouries, travellers, knights, etc. And swords weren’t the most important thing that blacksmiths made! Door hinges, horseshoes, spurs, sickles, axels for horse-drawn carts, iron bands for wheels, kettles, hooks to hang stuff on… that’s where most of their work would come from. It was vital! Blacksmiths, along with many other crafting professions, literally made the stuff that held society together, right down to the tiny steel loop fastenings on a shirt. 

Just remember that next time you’re doing worldbuilding for your story. 

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The Blacksmith

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Knife 101 - Blade styles

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Strike while the iron is hot

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Horse, raven, and serpent dagger, ready for his long journey to Europe. 🗡

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Finished making a pickaroon.

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Large gold diadem with idol-shaped pendants; Troy, 2600-2300 BC. [1042x780]

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Video games for Your Dwarven spirit!

We know you absolutely adore the forge. But every Dwarf needs a good break every now and then. So wanna play hard just as you work hard, here are some games for you! (These include nice smithing, mining, or even playable dwarf race!):

The Dwarves

Divinity Original Sin 2

Dungeons and dragon: sword coast legends

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (while you don't get to choose your race, you can choose your size and you can make a very Dwarven Arisen)

Deep Rock Galactic (wanna be a space dwarf, mining ore on a hostile planet and shootin alien bugs? This is definitely for you.)

Baldur's Gate series

Neverwinter

Ice wind dale

Craft the World

300 dwarves

Dwarf tower

Dwarf fortress

Delve deeper!

D.W.A.R.F.S.

Dwarfs?!

Minecraft (there are dwarves skins, but also if you get the Norse mythology pack, it has the four Dwarves from the myths, Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri. )

Blackguards

Most Warhammer games

Bloodbowl games

A game of Dwarves (literally the name)

Dragon age Origins

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Vermintide 1& 2

Golden Axe

Lord of the rings games & online

World of Warcraft

If you know of any that I missed, add to the list!

May your forge always be lit, and you always find the best of the vein!

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There’s a fine line between goblincore and dwarfcore because the similarities for me are real close.

» Love shiny/colorful rocks. See it on the ground, gOTTA COLLECT » Live in a secluded area or really like the concept of large forests » Wildlife is a part of us; nature is beautiful » Resourceful! (Why would someone throw this away, they’re mAD- I must use this in a grand scheme) » Probably drink at odd intervals » Probably also drinks in the middle of the night or have night munchies

idk, I found it funny and I love both

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Dwarfcore Aesthetic: Scents

» Leather sword sheaths » Coal » Woodsmoke » Early mountain fog » Far-off rain » Fresh, upturned dirt » Heat of the forge » Iron and steel » Hot ale » Children that rolled with the swine at the bottom of the mountainside » Creeping lavender

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Dwarfcore Aesthetics

Tapestries Stonework sculptures and architecture thats mostly faces Gilding things that shouldn’t be gilded Shiny Collections Hearty Stews Heavy Armour Non-Existent Gender Roles Beard Challenging the cvs cashier to a fist fight in the parking lot because they dishonored you by declining your coupon thats been in the family since 1967 Monologues about the differences between types of rocks and stones

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A very useful guide from Matthew Forde of Forde Military Antques and antique_steel on Instagram.

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Funny thing about us, Dwarves

People always ask us if we have women. Sodding idiots probably think we spring up from the stone itself. We have men, women, nonbinary, folks who choose not to have a gender at all. The only that matters in the underground is if you follow the law, know how to work your craft, and give back to the community. All us Dwarves have beards. Even the young Dwarblets. You can tell how a Dwarf chooses to identify as by their beard braids. If you are unsure, just ask the pronouns like humans do. But never go touching a beard without permission. That's a fast way to lose your fingers.

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You got me there.

I wonder how many of us dwarves took a look at the beauty community for beard oils, make-up tutorials and once thought “Elves and their silk touch wrists must have somethin’ else goin’ on!”

And then you did it yourself and you realized “Oh, this ain’t that bad”

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The Dwarves called themselves Khazâd in their own language, Khuzdul.

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Dragon Age Inquisition: In-game dwarven facial tattoos as .png

redrawn by hand because I never got daitools to work for me somehow…

I’ve seen things like that for the vallaslin already but never for human/dwarf tats and I had time soo