What do you imagine do the Chaos Dwarfs eat? I am an avid cook at home, and just today it occured to me that I might someday invite some friends from our Warhammer group to a Dawi'Zharr-themed dinner.
Feel free to post recipes!
I agree that the Dawi Zharr diet should be mostly made up of meat. There are probably not many types of vegetables that will grow in Zharr Naggrund. Barbecues and flambéed pork would be suitable. Do Chaos Dwarfs drink beer or rather a stronger beverage?
Yep - try to catch some snotlings
The animals would live off the few plants that grow in the Darklands. Withered trees - that sort of thing.
Chaos Dwarfs around Flayed Rock would most likely eat greenskin and ogre.
I can well imagine things like mushrooms and algae growing under ground. These would work fine as diet for the pigs and the (rare) vegetarians among the Dawi Zharr.
Being a Bull-God, maybe Hashut has even granted the Chaos Dwarfs with a special breed of holy cattle that can feed on volcanic ashes...?
The Dawi Zharr may have some sort of flat bread or pita bread (baked on a hot stone), which would be a nice addition to a fiery barbecue. Nothing too complicated, as grain probably needs to be imported / looted from the realms around the Dark Lands.
NO VEGES!! they dont grow to well in volcanic regions.
WHAT!?!? Part of the reason people in the real world run the risk of living near volcanoes is that the soil is so fertile. I suspect the sorcerers and lords of the chaos dwarfs would have slaves to grow their food, more favoured slaves to prepare it and considerably less favoured ones to taste it (poisoning being an excepted form of political intregue in Zharr Naggrund). If you are looking for inspiration, try looking at Persian food, seeing as this is the culture the Dawi'zharr are - very loosely - based on. You could also add a very rare joint of meat and try to convince your friends it is goblin. I think Dawi'zharr would prefer blue red meat (if that makes sense) rather than cooked to cinders. Besides, the image of blood dribbling down tusks seems to suit. Good luck, its good to know that someone else shares two of my favorite hobbies: Food and Warhammer
I was also under the impression that volcanic soil is quite fertile. The pollution caused by the Chaos Dwarfs relentless industrialisation might however even have the more considerable impact on the lands surrounding the ziggurat.
Persian food, now that's a good idea! I'm quite curious if there is any source material out there on what the people in Persia actually ate some 3000 years ago...
Perhaps Chaos Dwarfs wouldn't eat cow at all. Seeing as Hashut is a bull god, they might reguard eating them as heresy.
Ishkur, you should try getting a Syrian cookbook, and see if anything strikes your fancy in there. Or even better if you can find a Syrian or Iranian restaurant that would be cool too. Heck, just go for shawarma!
As for what Chaos Dwarfs would eat, I assume that since they are still dwarfs they would enjoy some kind of mead or ale. I envision a sorcerer wearing a malignant BEER HAT, powered by the wailing souls of a thousand tortured slaves, with the putrescent liquid gushing into his slavering maw like the spasmodic pumping of an arterial wound, as he prepares a falafel bound and chained in a smoking daemonic harness.
Holy animals are often eaten by cultures that revere them. Usually the priests would get all the best bits, regular folks get the rest, and people considered unholy wouldn't be allowed it at all.
I really can't imagine the Chaos Dwarfs as being cannibalistic either.. there are just too few of them, and reducing their dwindling numbers even more by eating each other just doesn't seem to be the best idea...
There is no reason why they couldn't eat some of their prisoners, though (elf flesh sashimi on ice being a special delicacy
) and have some deep fried gnoblar feet instead of French Fries.
Of course they might as well send hunting expeditions to the Mountains of Mourn regularly, to hunt Rhinoxen and return tons of pickled meat to Zharr Naggrund.
Not much meat on an elf, Bretonians make thebest eating, unless you object to canned food...
Naturally. The Flayed Rock Bunch were always a little backward. *laughs*
A litle cannabalism never hurt anyone. What about eating greenskin slaves? The only one I don't see being eaten is the Gnoblar as they have very little real meat on them.
Is an Orc a cannibal if he eats a Goblin or only if he eats another Orc?
Perhaps the Chaos Dwarfs would keep Gnoblars in coops like chickens. Cover them in a few feathers and no one will know the difference.
Maybe they're just good as appetisers. Gnoblars for the starter, a roast Questing Knight for the main with wood elves as veges, skaven tails for desert (they have a million and one uses) and an elf as a palete clenser. Wash it all down with elf blood.
Right, but elf blood is so hard to come by in the Dark Lands... the elf realms are just so far away! Their blood probably is almost as rare as pickled Kroxigor eyeballs...!
Right, but elf blood is so hard to come by in the Dark Lands... the elf realms are just so far away! Their blood probably is almost as rare as pickled Kroxigor eyeballs...!
Yeah, but its a banquest for the sorcerer lords, rarity wouldn't be a problem as they'd claim te best of everything and wouldn't worry about its rarity as they're the richest and most powerful figures in the dark lands.
Bac to the notion of an entirely predatory eco-system; that is unfeasible, but if you look at the dangerous regions of earth, even the herbivores have fierce defensive mchanisms. Just look at some of the dinosours to see what I mean - even plant eater had tusks, mace tails, or even sheer size as a defence
Horned ones would be more acceptable, seeing as these live in the southlands but cold ones don't. I don't see how these rare beasts would be aquired as mounts for hobbos
Ogre's do eat Gnoblars but generally either by accident or when they're very poor. The reason for this being that a great deal of the meat on them (aside from the nose and the ears) tastes awful.