“My father, and his father, and his father before him, for generations untold, worked the mines in the traditional way, We’ve used ancestral tools to protected our great halls from dragons, goblins, orc risings and evil wizards. The sounds of axe and shovel reverberate in our bones and color our blood. Our children suckle on carbon steel to pacify their cries, and the old use stone polished pick heads as crutches.
You can imagine then, the reluctance to embrace a technology that threatened these ardent symbols of our way of life.
However, when we were told in order for this new contraption to work, we needed to strap a steam forge onto our back while directing a impact hammer tied to our midsection … well, this new picture of dwarf virility was easily adopted.
After all, there’s not much call for slaying dragons anymore.”
I didn’t see any studular phallic symbolism…….honest…….
Glad to see a new update. I am enjoying reading these very much!
Thank you both for reading. I really enjoy writing/rendering them