All dwarves go off to school at the age of 25...these years they spend 5 years of training in each of the following: Mining, Smelting, Smithing, Relgion and Weapons. Which ever field they excell in is where they go. Most dwarves stay with their clan, though some do go else where.
By the young age of 60, Dorium already earned the right to own his own shop. Whenever time aloud, with all his normal chores done, Dorium would stay up late at nights working on Weaponsmithing. To dwarves, swords and maces are useless tools, so weaponsmithing is discourged...unless the dwarf is great. So, Dorium practiced long hours in the night perfecting his work. By the age of 76, Dorium Bedrock earned the title: Master WeaponSmith, and hired two apprentices of his own.
One day, a tiny group of travelers came to Dorium's door. A priest dressed in ragily clothes and shaggy hair stepped up and introduced himself as, Jameson. Needing to have his famous 'J-mace' repaired, Dorium did it and imroved the quality of it. The group, Phoenix, Jameson, and Mirage, became good friends and began to travel together.
There travels went all over URSA and beyond. Time marched by and this group became well know to all dwarves(they also OPENLY joked about elves...even though Mirage is an elf. There 'worst' insult was, "You fight like an elf. You smell like an elf. You even look like an elf..." this was said to a human prisoner of Lord Agry's army during The Battle of The Faiths. This statment was soon followed by a stream of steaming-urine from Dorium.)
Now, the dwarves say the battle went like this:
Sir Browen the Bold was charging in on his faithful mount, Loial, and hurting Traz and keeping his attention. 'Towel"(Talamorin goes by 'Tal' for short, but Dorium and IlL'ese're made fun of that by calling him "Towel") was being thrown up into the air like a rag doll, Que'llar and Aralyn were off playing with dolls and IlL'ese're got offeneded by a 21foot tall Tannar'ri(Traz was only 18 foot) and was killing it. SO it was all left up to Dorium to capture Traz
Dorium climbed to the top of tree 100 feet tall. He took a stee-rope and tied it to a massive grapel-hook, spun it twice and on the first thrown grabbed Traz. With a mighty yank, he pulled the demon god to the ground. Dorium leaped from the tree and delivered a tremendous two handed-hammer blow, killing the beast..
The rest of this can be found in the History section.
Battle Ax +1..............This ax was one of the first weapons Dorium made himself. Dwarves may not like magic a whole lot, but they do know the better they make their wepoans and tools, for some reason they can retain or even just have magic. Dorium made this ax when he was 69 years of age.
Dorium is said to be in Thorojax, working at the forge all day...doing what he loves. He know has a companion, a pet...if you must call it. It is a very large Wolf...brown with grey wolf. Priest and men of faith can feel something...holy about this animal.
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