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The Layonara Community => Just for Fun => Topic started by: Stephen_Zuckerman on February 26, 2007, 12:58:22 PM
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0305.html
This just says it all.
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It's actually quite funny that Thor is worshipped by dwarves, in the northen mythology the gods and dwarves are two different "factions", as far as I know. But yeah, Thor knows how to drink ale, there goes a story where he is cheated to drink from a horn magically enchanted so he will drink from the sea. He drinks so much that the sea level sinks!
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SHHH. The Norse pantheon fits the typical "dwarvish" culture for D&D better than any other that spring to mind. ;)
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Awesome! I like the transcribing the accent bit...
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Stephen_Zuckerman - 2/26/2007 11:01 AM
SHHH. The Norse pantheon fits the typical "dwarvish" culture for D&D better than any other that spring to mind. ;)
but Thor dont have a scottish or irish accent or whatever strange accent it is!
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SHHHHHHH.
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Stephen...it MUST be done :)
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Random...
Does anybody know where the whole dwarves have Scottish accent thing came from? I used to play a dwarf based heavily on the Norse conception (which Tolkien used for his as well; almost all the names come from the the Voluspa), created a detailed, nuanced background, wrote a significant portion of the game material about dwarves. . . and then everyone said I wasn't roleplaying a dwarf well because I didn't speak in a Scottish accent. *sigh*
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ycleption - 3/5/2007 3:27 PM
Random...
Does anybody know where the whole dwarves have Scottish accent thing came from? I used to play a dwarf based heavily on the Norse conception (which Tolkien used for his as well; almost all the names come from the the Voluspa), created a detailed, nuanced background, wrote a significant portion of the game material about dwarves. . . and then everyone said I wasn't roleplaying a dwarf well because I didn't speak in a Scottish accent. *sigh*
Smack them.
I'm not actually sure where it started... Though the dwarvish accent isn't quite "Scottish" per se. It's a nice brogue, aye, but...
Honestly, I've always thought of the dwarves as Norse, too. Apparently, so does Rich Burlew, as his dwarves worship the Norse pantheon. ;)
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We are tall, blond proud, muscular people, or well.... they say we used to be that.. anyway, not dwarves!... Play some more elderscrolls, they know who we are!
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Well, in terms of culture, Niles... Not in terms of any physical resemblance (aside, perhaps, from the sturdiness you northmen exhibit), but culturally.
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well Ive noticed that some people drink some pretty unhealthy amounts of liquid at parties... which I guess suits Ducan's praise of Thor.
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Bjornigar's low charisma leads him to combine a neigh incomprehendable combination of scottish, Irish, English Cockney, and even some ebonics. (aight!) He has a decent intelligence too, so he often mangles some fairly complex words to boot. Only his name is Nordic, heheh.
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a wizard did it.
for all other technicalities, remember that it's not norse or scottish, it's "Dwarvish" (except for Thor, he's spanish)