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Similarly, in the members of a war engine there ought to be the greatest harmony in the symmetrical relations of the different parts to the general geometry of the whole, showing the accomplished mastership of the dwarf over machine and slave alike. Then again, in the dwarf body the central point is naturally the beard. For if a dwarf be placed flat on his back, with his arms extended in a straight line, and a pair of compasses centred at his lordly kept beard, the fingers and soles of his two hands and feet will touch the circumference of a circle described therefrom and the arms will form its diameter. And just as the dwarf body yields a circular outline, so too a triangle figure may be found from it. For if the dwarf, conversely, raises his hands to the height of the top of the head and stretches his legs to a straight line, and we measure the distance from the toes of the feet to the fingers of the hands, and then apply that measure to the breadth between the fingertips of both hands, both measures will be found to be the same, as in the case of a perfectly equilateral triangle.
Thus is the measure of all things the dwarf.
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What the scriptures are about.
There once was a Dawi Zharr, one of those in possession of knowledge and magic, a High Priest of Hashut. As he was likewise in possession of wisdom, he was thinking about the place and nature of his people and their relationship to their saviour and souvereign, and he wrote down his theses.
Not everyone in the Great Conclave agreed with those scriptures’ contents. In fact, the predominant part and also the majority of members considered them to be to at least some degree blasphemous. They were speaking of servitude to Hashut, but also of opposition. They were speaking of pride in, but also of autonomy from gods. Speaking of tradition, but also scorning the ancestors. They were questioning so many things, many that were not to be questioned!
And so they became forbidden. Nakart Zhinn, such was their originator’s name, lost status in the Tower, two full ranks in the line of succession and his second biological arm, the one he had been using for writing blasphemy.
But he did not lose his conviction, nor his mind. One could assume he did, as he now is calling himself Dingir Nakart Zhinn, as a sign of his sought divinity, and is wasting his slaves’ working time by making them worship him. But he does so unhindered nonetheless, and the number and quality of engineers and daemonsmiths, but also of simple warrior-smiths joining his forges, prove that there inevitably is some merit to his scheme and perhaps even some truth to his ideas.
I was speaking about making an army thread/blog for weeks months now, but what are even years if world subjugation takes centuries to prepare.
The idea of me going into Chaos Dwarfs appeared last year when I was joking around with a notorious greenskin player of mine that of all the greenskins he had no hobgoblins (and some time later he actually got some AoS Dominion boxes for cheap), but to make the story complete, there was a need for the self-righteous assholes righteous overlords who would put down his imprudent revolt. So I thought, and now am on the way to building some.
Following this idea the army is supposed to be mostly greenskin-free, but not fully, as you can always* rely** on some Sneaky Gitz standing on the right side.
But as you can probably tell from the fluff pieces above, a devoted cult of holy warriors with many Bull Centaurs is also not the focus here (again, not fully excluding them), so we already can establish some priorities for the unit choices.
I should also add that we are mostly playing WCE***, as the rule set is in case of CDs a relevant info since there has been so long no full army list and consistent model range from GW that now, in the age of successor rule sets, they all differ to some extent in their available unit choices and interpretations.
