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I had an interesting idea last night.  Would it be a stupid idea to write most of the armybook descriptions of things from a Dwarf Loremaster point of view?

The Dwarfs apparantly will never enter us in the Dammaz Kron (the Great book of Grudges), but they must keep records of what they know about us.

So what I was thinking was something like a collection of notes in a journal.

So all the unit descriptions of things would be from his point of view, or him recounting things he's heard.  Some of the stories and text would be done as normal, because the dwarf could not see everything.  You could have sketch like artwork of things.

It would be an interesting idea though because you could show his frustrations "I must know more...".  You could even include some cryptic sections written in dwarf runes in the background.

I think doing it this way would add mystery, but you would need to balance it with enough material from the CD side that the fluff makes sense.

Anyone who has Grudgelore, it would be very much in that style.

It would certainly be an interesting read. But then again, what do the Dawi know about Chaos Dwarfs? I imagine only very little.

The Dark Elf armybook was entirely written from a DE's point-of-view and it worked nicely. The same could also be done for Chaos Dwarfs

This is the best idea i've heard all day!
(though i just woke up...)

But nice thinking, it might be interestting

@Ishkur
As a whole I'm sure they know little of the arcane depths to which the CD have sunk/ embraced, but the Dwarf PoV things would be more concerned with what he had seen and heard.  For instance the battlefield effects of hellcannons, or him hypothesising about CD sorcerers because of a fellow dawi that had escaped torture, or the reports of miners/ rangers/ slayers.  So focused primarily on the unit descriptions section, but with a few stories as well.

Things like their timeline, descriptions of cities and other secret locations would be done as normal.

@Perv
It would carry on the tradition of GW ignoring the CD, even in their own armybook!

So true its not even funny, well actually it is.

Sounds good, but tricky to pull off well. Along a similar vein, I think that telling the Armybook from the slave's point of view would be good, because you could get the opinions of a number of different races

Only Hashut knows. Some say yes, some say no, some say maybe. Search the forum there are numerous opinions on that topic.

Aye, the only thing that is for sure however is that the Chaos Dwarfs have their place in the Warhammer fluff, even if they don't get an army book. They have been mentioned everywhere in the latest additions to the game, be it the Ogre Kingdoms AB, the O&G Army Book, even in Mighty Kingdoms. So we definitely won't share the same fate of the Zoats and Squats, and that's a good thing. ^^

We also forced GW to recognize us in the battles for the Nemesis Campaign!

i say grims just do it!!!!! Your one of the best fluff writers ever.
I do as one of the lost dwarf clann .That turn into the first chaos Dwarfs and go from there.
and write us a book PLease!!!

Thats an excellent idea because the dwarf/CD relation has never been clear. What do they deeply think of each other.
One thing that could be of interest is to show when and how the dwarfs realized that CD exist. What kind of sources could dwarfs have? (battle reports, spies, tortured CD, escaped prisionners...?) I think dwarfs could be the only ones who know exactly what the CD are, even if they refuse to talk.

This could be the main idea. Dwarfs trying to understand how CD could exist. Their innability to understand how their own race can turn to chaos.
I support Kera. You could wrote something great. Sadly I can even do a good english translation of my ideas.

Well I've had a go at a few pages.

It's written from the point of view of Ralkan Grumbak, Loremaster of Karak Kadrin (made him up).  I thought this would be a good spot.  He can have reports from slayers, miners, gyrocoptor pilots, rangers and other troops (from peak pass),  Also a few merchants (dwarfs, humans and maybe even elves *spit*) who have travelled through the Dark Lands.

The last page was something I've wanted to do for a while (half mysterious letters).

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Great stuff grims see you do a hella of good job.  i love the blunderbuss you sketched too
and the goat killing cd

the commander from the warriors has the same stats as the rest of the untit the same is true with the blundies

Hmm.... I typed the stats again so I could put them in a spreadsheet (nice and tidy), seems I forgot to change it.

That is true, perhaps I should re phrase that.

Actually the historical blunderbuss is neither. If anything a blunderbuss is more akin to a shotgun then anything else.

Forgot to ask, what did you think of my names for notable hobgoblin tribes:

Red Backz  (i.e. bloody from back stabbin')
Lucky Gitz

and my personal favourite the Black Stabbath

The broke back tribe (there a mountain group) Gnobler hill tribe. The dull blade tribe

Off Topic: Funny Story. My wife and I have two young kids so we don’t get to watch much TV other then the Disney channel , Pixar Movies etc.. Let alone got to the movies…

So when that movie was out and the clips/promos were appearing on TV, she says to me “Why don’t we go see that movie”. I just look at her with a smirk on my face knowing what is coming next. “You don’t ever want to see any movies I want to see or romance movies”… To which I dryly reply “Oh. It’s a romance all right…” Imagine her chagrin when she found out what the movie was really about…

Back on Topic: Sad that one of the coolest units in the CD army in terms of fluff is currently one of it the most useless.