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I've got a touch of writer's block
The dwarves of my roughly bog standard fantasy pre-register setting shun raw magic, instead favoring metallurgy and engineering, and dabbling with spiritual "knowledge of the forefathers" type magic. The glorious ancient empire is lost, the old highways closed off and ruins dot the landscape with no record of their treasures.
So what could they have stowed away in a lost keep? A clan of dwarves having set out hundred of years ago, falling victim to the Fae in a swamp of briars, their men not even buried in the tombs.
Ancient golems? A wondrous rod that shapes earth to your will? A device capable of shunting a soul into a new body? A crystal array that let's you view the past through it's lenses? Bronze cannons that fire rays of pure light and heat?
I know I want it to be limited to use by dwarves, or at least very much so appeal to my two musketeer/dragoon type dwarf players
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>>54068995
What about some steampunk "lost tech" armor that's cut for tiny dwarves? Put some crazy ass guns on there and have some dead guard half buried in a slide or something, under the rubble?
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>>54069170
Ehhh that could work; the old empire used sci-fi levels of retrotech to put down superhighways underground, so I could see powerarmor being a thing.
Maybe a cadre of trapped souls bound to the suits, insane from being sealed away for so long...
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>>54068995
Quartzlock muskets.
Pneumatic cannons.
Spring-powered clockwork dart pistols.
Bonsai crystals.
Siege golems.
A lost nest of alicantos.
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>>54068995
The very same magic they shun now. Turns out they didn't always hate it. Perhaps it caused problems and they hid it away for everyone's good. Maybe they are they descendants of an ignorant sect that overthrew their more knowledgable peers, and those peers hid their knowledge to prevent it's destruction
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>>54071573
>Bonsai crystals.
Dude, that sounds mystical as fuck! I'd kill for one of those... use a little rock hammer and chizzel and hack little bits off or use one of those mini saws...
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>>54073936
See, I was leaning to this, certainly.
What major enough(to be impactful) but minor enough(to have been lost but not yet recovered) item could I plant?
The formula to transmutation of gold from lead? The resonant frequency if the earth? The quantification formula for the soul?
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>>54074210
In my setting ancient dwarves focused on applying their aptitude for magical craftsmenship to fleshcrafting. It got the kind of reactions you'd expect, and the knowledge was buried with their creations.
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>>54074423
Ooooooooooh!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!
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