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Putkin Presents: Axe of the Valkyrie.
PUTKIN PRESENTS: AXE OF THE VALKYRIE.
"Folks, we've finally come back around to the best type of weapon: the axe. This here is called the Axe of the Valkyrie, and its story is ALL myth. Legend says that long ago, when the dwarves hadn't yet formed the region of Gotram, they were at war with an enemy from underneath. They faced a race of giants renowned for their hideousness: the fomorians. These twisted, horrendous giants plagued the dwarves every time they dug too deep into the earth. Mining for iron? Fomorian colony. Hollowing out a mountain to establish a city? Fomorian colony. Just tried to dig a well for a small village in the middle of nowhere? You guessed it: fomorian colony. They popped up like the lesions they were covered in, and laid waste to the dwarves that encountered them.
"In their feud with the giant adversaries that dwelled in the Underdark, the dwarves made a number of special weapons, ruthless in nature and especially effective against giants. They had started to turn the tide of their war against the fomorians, and those outcast giants knew it. They had gathered their forces from all over the region, and planned to attack the dwarves' main civilization, the now-destroyed city of Skaargot. But one dwarven priest claimed to have a vision from the angels above, that said they would arrive in the dwarves' hour of need. According to the legend, the fomorians did, in fact, attack their city. It was a completely unwinnable battle, until the vision came true: from the heavens descended a force of fighting dwarves that seemed to float with the grace of clouds, though their blows landed like mighty thunder upon the giants. When the battle was won, any remaining fomorians had fled back underground, and never again showed their ugly mugs. The Cloud Dwarves, as the legend tells, bestowed upon the surface-dwellers a weapon that would smite down the giants with ease, should they ever rise again: The Axe of the Valkyrie.
"So, what'd you think? Sounds like malarkey, doesn't it? Everybody knows there's no such thing as Cloud Dwarves, and I think we'd have heard about it if fomorians really dwelled in the Underdark. Still, it makes for a compelling story!"
Putkin Presents: Axe of the Valkyrie.
PUTKIN PRESENTS: AXE OF THE VALKYRIE.
"Folks, we've finally come back around to the best type of weapon: the axe. This here is called the Axe of the Valkyrie, and its story is ALL myth. Legend says that long ago, when the dwarves hadn't yet formed the region of Gotram, they were at war with an enemy from underneath. They faced a race of giants renowned for their hideousness: the fomorians. These twisted, horrendous giants plagued the dwarves every time they dug too deep into the earth. Mining for iron? Fomorian colony. Hollowing out a mountain to establish a city? Fomorian colony. Just tried to dig a well for a small village in the middle of nowhere? You guessed it: fomorian colony. They popped up like the lesions they were covered in, and laid waste to the dwarves that encountered them.
"In their feud with the giant adversaries that dwelled in the Underdark, the dwarves made a number of special weapons, ruthless in nature and especially effective against giants. They had started to turn the tide of their war against the fomorians, and those outcast giants knew it. They had gathered their forces from all over the region, and planned to attack the dwarves' main civilization, the now-destroyed city of Skaargot. But one dwarven priest claimed to have a vision from the angels above, that said they would arrive in the dwarves' hour of need. According to the legend, the fomorians did, in fact, attack their city. It was a completely unwinnable battle, until the vision came true: from the heavens descended a force of fighting dwarves that seemed to float with the grace of clouds, though their blows landed like mighty thunder upon the giants. When the battle was won, any remaining fomorians had fled back underground, and never again showed their ugly mugs. The Cloud Dwarves, as the legend tells, bestowed upon the surface-dwellers a weapon that would smite down the giants with ease, should they ever rise again: The Axe of the Valkyrie.
"So, what'd you think? Sounds like malarkey, doesn't it? Everybody knows there's no such thing as Cloud Dwarves, and I think we'd have heard about it if fomorians really dwelled in the Underdark. Still, it makes for a compelling story!"