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Calrond
Learned Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 13 Jul 2007 : 04:54:07
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I know this might come off as a bit of a dumb question, but what do dwarves eat? Let's take Mithral Hall for example. We never hear of the Mithral Hall dwarves coming to the surface in search of food, hunter-gatherer style. We don't hear about them growing their own crops above the surface (corn, wheat, etc.) or below the surface (edible mushrooms, although they certainly have the materials needed). Also, it says in The Lone Drow that their version of holy water is made mostly of mead, which means that they have access to honey. I don't imagine any dwarves are part-time beekeepers, not even Pikel.
The only solution I can come up with to the problem is that they must get the vast majority of their food through trade. Most likely that is what they get in exchange for their weapons and armor they craft.
And while that's a nice solution for some dwarves, others wouldn't like the idea that they rely on humans for everything from eating to making their holy water. With the dwarven attitude, I'd think that they'd want to be very independent of other races. And what about dwarves in the past that didn't engage in trade with humans? How did they get their food?
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 13 Jul 2007 : 05:37:54
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| Ed's Dwarves Deep touches a little on what dwarves generally tend to consume in terms of food, as well as how they go about supplying themselves with a limited variety of foodstuffs for most of their underground communities. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 13 Jul 2007 : 05:40:32
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| I'd imagine that there are plenty of dwarven farmers... They just don't get any air-time, for the same reason farmers for other races don't get air-time: when you can read about swords, magic, daring deeds and dark secrets, who cares about the guy who never did anything more exciting than falling off a horse? |
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Calrond
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 13 Jul 2007 : 06:05:11
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| Thanks for the quick replies gentlemen. I'll definitely be checking out Dwarves Deep. My favorite sourcebooks are 2E, after all. |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
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hammer of Moradin
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 14 Jul 2007 : 07:12:09
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Yes, honey was the subject of a whole article. I have yet to return to the cupboards of the dwarves, yet somehow I can imagine a dwarven meatlocker filled with sausages. |
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Alaundo
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Posted - 14 Jul 2007 : 16:31:49
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Originally posted by hammer of Moradin
Yes, honey was the subject of a whole article. I have yet to return to the cupboards of the dwarves, yet somehow I can imagine a dwarven meatlocker filled with sausages.
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hammer of Moradin
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 14 Jul 2007 : 18:37:38
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Caught!
Of course it is, o' great scribely one. Just not on the article, quite yet at least.
I just wanted to pop back in here to clarify. I will return, in the future, to discussing food and drink of the Stout Folk, just nothing planned yet.
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Matthus
Senior Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 15 Jul 2007 : 20:09:44
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Just assume that dwarves might try to eat any meat - remember when Bruenor (f)tried the dog from the bounty hunter who was looking after Drizzt (can't remeber his name) - but there was some lines in the novels about how the meat tasted - hmmmmm  |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 15 Jul 2007 : 20:21:07
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| Also check out Ed's replies. I know at some point a while ago he talked about what both elves and dwarves eat. I don't remember much, besides that many elven houses contain berry bushes that people will pick and eat whenever they're hungry, and that dwarves can digest a number of underground things that humans can't. I know there's more there, however, so see if you can find it in Kuje's files. |
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