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2E and 3E lore said that dwarves began to see a marked turn-around in fertility and birth rates in the year 1306 DR, and called this the Thunder Blessing. But 1E Bruenor appears to have still been running his clan with the old, over-protective, gender-role-based outlook. I guess news of the Thunder Blessing must have traveled really, really slowly up to Icewind Dale?

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I don't recall any mentions of the Thunder Blessing, or its effects, in 2E.
That said, Bruenor had already grown up and become an adult by the time the Thunder Blessing happened. Perhaps his exiled clan didn't have many females for them to even note the Blessing, or -- more likely, to me -- Bruenor was doing as many people do and holding on to the ideals he'd been raised with, despite cultural shifts that had happened since then.

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And/or it's "buy a fish, feed for a day, buy a fishing net..." approach in self-inflicted version. Thunder Blessing was one-shot event, after all, and until he is sure...

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