Okay, bit of a silly question, but it's been something I've been mulling over:
Culturally, visually, and tactically, chaos dwarves are everything their World's Edge "cousins" are not. Dwaves hate and loathe greenskins. Chaos dwarves employ with, and trade with them en masse. Dwarves distain calvery. Chaos dwarves ARE the cavlery (well, the bull looking blokes, anyway). Dwarves fear the power of magic, whilst chaos dwarves embrace it with a vengence. And so on, and so on...
...so here's my fluff question:
If dwarves drink beer; then what do chaos dwarves drink in it's place?
The closest thing I can come up with is one of those bar trick drinks that you light on fire before serving. XD
Well, thinking about this, got me thinking about the nature of Chaos Dwarf crop production in general. I mean, thier lands are always described as being barren and volcanic, not really the best place to produce a large amount of food for the nation, so where they heck would it come from, and what would they subsist on? That'll give you the answers I suppose, because traditionally speaking, your booze comes as a fermented form of your primrary food stuff. ^_^
...umm... why cider?
well rum of cource it a lot better than are water. we where once dwarfs so the beer ale and stronge spirits are part of us .
Hmm... I suppose growing crops near an active volcano would be a bit problematic, especially if you had to induce erruptions every so often. I suppose the ash could be transported to safter locations, though. It would be grisley, dangerous, and backbreaking work, but you know that's what hobgoblins and the like are for. XD
well, if they drink vodka, they're a-ok in my books
to solve the problem of crops, they should just eat meat. who needs fibre and vegetables anyways!? hehe
but HB is right, ash would be fertile AND depending what crops are planted, the heat would help open seed pods for further cultivation (the reason there are often controlled forest fires; the heat opens pine cones so the seeds drop
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well that you land loving chaos dwarfs if you adventure to the sea you find all types of food but don't forget the rades and we do the trades of metal work so i think we will inport the food
who would eat a hobo. that like eating your pet!!
Well, 1 problem with the fertility thing is that I always imagined the area the chaos dwarves are in to have the sun blocked by all of the volcanic ash... This would make it almost impossible to grow plants that need any form of sun light, so wouldnt they need to raid or trade for food? (or use the idea to eat the hobbos
the sun is basicly a giant fireball, so there could also be a couple of sorcerers wich are casting fireballs
Not certain about CD themselves, but reckon the Hobbos would drink fermented wolf milk (ala kumis/ayrag). And we can keep the slaves fed/content/manageable on bread and simple barley beer like the baylonian/egyptians are alleged to.[/color][/size][/font]
Yea a great spice trade!!! maybe we will catch you some mermaids too.
lol
i say there has to be some types of bird we could eat like cute sea gulls there every where!!!!!!
and some sort of vultures i heard they tast like chicken.
If hobos taste terrible, i guess we could try brewing them in some way... If it works - great, if not its a sacrifice in the name of hashut and descent threat to keep the others in check... Maybe they just drink whatever water is around, and wolf/goat milk, or blood. Eating goats cheese and manflesh could work too... I am beginning to feel that vegetarians may have no place in CD society, unless they are eating the gobbo's mushrooms, but that has to have a bad outcome...
thats what i think anyway
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milk!!!! their gods a giant cow
i say pork kill all the greenskins pigs.
i say the would eat and drink stuff they stole
I think they'd drink Strongbow... which is my drink of choice.
Hobgoblin casualties might make good fertilizer too...
Bullcentaur milk! Alcohol is a part of dwarven blood, som you got walking boose machines!
that hobgoblin drink needs more poison in it
yea there drinking lite beer.(poison) heck the one look dwarfish