@actuallyautistic also idk if asking for #Deadzone stuff is appropriate for work. #manticgames isn't super popular but my friends and I play Deadzone sometimes. I've been borrowing a friend's #dwarves, but tbh I would rather play #astarii
Two tales about daughters being thrown into bitter cold by bitter mothers over minor mistakes.
[...because it's the Brothers Grimm & they are psychotic.]
After more listening, I cut the new Dwarves 'Concept Album' full track number (20) in half (sorry, guys, but this one needed it), and messed around order at the end. Here's a solid 10 track album that I dig. The order is whatever (pretty close to perfect), but damn, do I love the shit outta these 10 songs:
Feeling Great
Voodoo
Terrorist of Love
Kill or Be Killed
Roxette
You Lose We Win
Parasite
Ain't Playin
Stabbed My Dad
We Will Dare
My brain has looked at that #Dwarves are type caste with Scottish+ Irish accents, and decided that #Duergar speak with #Australian accents because... they're from 'down under'
Though later fantasy inspired by Tolkien often makes dwarves anti-magic, in "The Hobbit" the dwarves cast spells to open doors, hide their buried treasure, and curse their enemies. They're also less mistrustful of Gandalf's magic than hobbits or humans are.
🎨 John Howe #FaustianFriday#litereature#fantasy#JRRTolkien#MiddleEarth#dwarves
There would be a lot to say about the #LittlePeople, or #HiddenPeople!¹
Each country has several beliefs, sometimes very different one from each other, but this is one of those that can be found in many places, with different names.
Probably, the most famous version is the #Irish one, the Danann², or Danaan. In this #mythology, we can find many stories about several characters who twisted their destiny with the mortals' ones.
Similarly, a less noble version of a similar concept is from #England: they are often called pixies, or #fairies. This is a general term to indicate a universe of extremely diverse creatures, it depends very much on the region: they can be more helpful (as the Brownie³ from #Scotland), or even extremely dangerous (like the Cu Sith⁴, a ghostly dog from the Highlands).
Also, in all places, stories have been… Christianized, in the last centuries. For example, in #Iceland, it was said that the Hidden People were the children of Adam and Eve, who lied to God when He asked if she had any children. Since she was ashamed the babies weren't washed (baptized) yet, she lied, and the children escaped to a lake. From then, they lived in pools of water or in rocks… like #dwarves.
In fact, #gnomes, dwarves, #elves, and similar beings are pretty much all derived from the concept of Hidden People: some beings we can't properly see, but they are real indeed — we can feel it. And they have a huge power that should not be underestimated.
Basically, in this tale a farmer's girl lost her way in the forest and stumbled across a hut inhabited by seven dwarves. She asked them for a place to stay for the night, and received it (after the dwarves argued about who would get the honor of giving up his bed for the girl)....
A fun project today painting up this Dwarf smoking a pipe. I had a lot of fun painting this up, and I'm really happy with how he came out, the colours were just as I was hoping they would be.
TIL of a folk tale named "Death of the Seven Dwarves" (www.digitale-sammlungen.de)
Basically, in this tale a farmer's girl lost her way in the forest and stumbled across a hut inhabited by seven dwarves. She asked them for a place to stay for the night, and received it (after the dwarves argued about who would get the honor of giving up his bed for the girl)....