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Joshed Delerer

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Old Guild Name
« on: January 13, 2007, 05:49:37 pm »
As requested by the GM


Hells Dwarves


In the battles of the past, the 5 original dwarves of the unnamed guild used to slaughter the enemy with no mercy, the enemy at the mere thought of these 5 shuttered, the enemy decided to give a name to these "dwarves of bringing hell", the Hells Dwarves

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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2007, 06:22:24 pm »
Who is the enemy?

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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2007, 06:25:42 pm »
When was the battle? Who are the descendants of the five who carry on the guild, if they are not the same five? :>
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« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2007, 06:40:49 pm »
But how did the enemy come to the word "hell." Unless "In the battles of the past" means in another older realm where hell is an actual thing.

EDIT: Also, why did the five dwarves kill enemies without mercy? Any reason? Or were they just a few teenagers pissed off at the world? Also, are there different groups of enemies? Because if all were slaughtered, I wonder who gave them the name...unless only most were...anyway.
« Last Edit: January 13, 2007, 07:06:13 pm by Robinmagus »
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« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2007, 07:17:35 pm »
But how did the enemy come to the word "hell." Unless "In the battles of the past" means in another older realm where hell is an actual thing.
And why do we say: "What the hell"? Why is spoon called spoon?
Nontheless i believe each word originates from something, so it would be happy to hear. But possibility that this knowledge has been forgotte is possible.



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« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2007, 07:40:02 pm »
second edit(the orignal one i had was 3 pages long and sadly i cant get it off my desky due to windows issues)



Many dawns ago, 5 young dwarves were enslaved by the laanx followers to mine platinum for them. Over the years they noticed the mine was giving more and more silver, they all realized what was happening - and what would happen to them. Over the long nights where the guard would have gone home, they devised a plan to escape, they decided to make weapons out of the silver, which by now was in abundance, they made daggers and swords, crude but weapons none the less. Every morning they heard the footsteps of the guard return, when those footsteps were heard they threw the weapons into a small cavern at the very end of the mine. When the day came when all the platinum disappeared they realized it was do or die. One day in the morning they heard 6 pairs of steps instead of just one, this time they knew this was it. they grabbed their crude weapons of weaved silver and hid them in their hands, they heard the ladder being dropped, they heard the rope bridge creaking, now is the time they said. As the footsteps got louder they got more and more angry, all the hardships they went through, all the pain and suffering, finally, revenge is at hand. As the executioners came around the corner, they drew their weapons and attacked! The executioners were ready for something like this, with mail of chain and weapons of Iron slash, a battle of almost impossible victory for the dwarves. For the exececutioners were wearing much armor, they were slow to attack, to evade compared to these dwarves of almost legendary strength and endurance. With strong will and even stronger hearts they managed to fight relentlessly, and eventually, to win. After the battle, their thirst for revenge, for blood, just was not satisfied; they wanted to know who did this, to these 5, to them. They released a rage of such fury, of such terrible things, such bloodshed; the enemy started calling these "bringers of such terrible things" the Hells Dwarves.

Overtime, these 5 started to help others, and the guild began to grow, they became dwarves of peace, but still the rage is within them, thinking, pondering, never out of thought as of why this done to them and who is responsible. They keep the name Hells Dwarves for the one simple reason, to continually strike fear into the hearts of the enemy and to let them know the battle is not over...it has just begun



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« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2007, 09:01:14 pm »
So its another one of those sort of Dermorian Lords and Dwarvesbane types... But wait no! A twist. Instead of race vs. race its race vs. religion. Don't you just love pushing boundaries?
I suggest the statue of Laanx gets turned into a statue of Parallo <3. An NPC could never replace the huge hole he left in my heart when he died  :'(

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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2007, 12:05:14 am »
Maybe the word "Hell" developed from the term "Hail". The Dwarves used to shout in combat "Hail Dwarves!", but in the heat of battle they misspoke the word and said "Hell Dwarves".  ;)

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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2007, 12:09:58 am »
For a start hail is a greeting. Secondly how would a transmutation like that stick from one mispronounciation?
I suggest the statue of Laanx gets turned into a statue of Parallo <3. An NPC could never replace the huge hole he left in my heart when he died  :'(

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« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2007, 12:14:45 am »
Well, words change over time, don't they? Different can become associated with them, and by chance the word "Hell" was invented in Yliakum.

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« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2007, 12:17:22 am »
Hail has nothing to do with hell. For that mutation to work hail and hell would have to have the same meaning.
I suggest the statue of Laanx gets turned into a statue of Parallo <3. An NPC could never replace the huge hole he left in my heart when he died  :'(

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« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2007, 12:50:02 am »
Well, words change over time, don't they? Different can become associated with them, and by chance the word "Hell" was invented in Yliakum.

That's a bit far reaching of an excuse.

And it has an awesome slippery slope

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« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2007, 12:53:55 am »

And it has an awesome slippery slope



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I suggest the statue of Laanx gets turned into a statue of Parallo <3. An NPC could never replace the huge hole he left in my heart when he died  :'(

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« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2007, 01:54:02 pm »
The name Hells Dwarves doesn't strike any fear into anyone. It strikes doubt about your knowledge over the setting. You should've realised this by now.
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« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2007, 06:06:46 pm »
What people dont understand about the name is that we are not implying religion with the word "hell." In fact the word hell isnt even used for religion anymore, it has worked its way into pretty much every language. Our guild uses hell as the definition of terrible things in the worst way
or as the first 2 lines from google
Define:hell
# any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";
# a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"

Religion does not even make the first definition in a dictionary anymore

if my communication skills werent so bad right now i would give a much better explination of this

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