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While working on the language overhaul project I mentioned in http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=133998.0 I came to the realization that I'm not exactly sure what it even sounds like. How is a c any different than a k in Dwarven, and what are all of those funny vowel diacritics about? How DO you pronounce Urist? Reflecting on those questions led me to the further realization that I'm not really even sure how Dwarven psychology would work. I don't recall ever seeing anything about it beyond the raws for their values in the next release. Would the prototypical dorf be a mad craftsman-warrior who could go off at the slightest trigger? A tradition worshipping craftsman? I notice the lack of any family oriented behavior let alone stereotypical clan-based society. The same questions about the other races are almost as interesting...

Dear Forum, I ask your opinions.
-How do you read Dwarven? Exactly what does it sound like in your own opinion?
-How does the dorfy mind work, and what would you consider to be the stereotypical DF dorf?
-What will dorfen society be like in 1.0?
-Just as an afterthought, exactly what is cave adaptation and what benefits will it confer in the future? Right now it's purely negative, which one would think isn't really an adaptation at all...

Gotcha. I'm not very experienced with modding yet tbh. I'm still just playing around with raws and trying to make something work. Only just recently learned what happens if you try modding elves out. I meant to change the second Abbey to Abbeys. My bad.

Hey, you would know. I'm also kinda thinking about trying to make an evil tundra fort within the first decade or so of worldgen. Its theme is going to be mad !!SCIENCE!! (as in actually burning sciences to death) and technology and stuff. I'd like to make some kind of crude firearm weapon for that one fort, but I don't want NPC forts to use them and I want to mod them out whenever that specific one dies. Is that a currently impossible dream?

I'm planning to give kobolds lizard tails, add more adventure mode crafting reactions, re-add the removed words and add missing words for things, improve the language grammar issues* as much as working in the raws allows, as much as working with the raws allows, and (if it's possible and makes sense) add genitalia to most creatures required to reproduce. That last one is mostly just so I can end my civilization's king's lineage by wrestling it off. Childish maybe, but that don't bother me a bit. :3