The Dwarven View Point & Maximum Mayhem Dungeons#4 Vault of Dwarven King In Castles & Crusades Sword & Sorcery

 Pulling down the idea of the Dwarves as a Fey power within our Swords & Sorcery campaign isn't as far fetched as one might think. Let's picked up right from here on the blog. And if we're using Dieties & Demigods by Kuntz & Ward's Celtic mythological section then there's very little in the way of tie ins with the Dwarves. 

However once we skip back into the the Codex Celtarum with it's section on 'Fairy Metals' now we've got our motives for the Dwarven kingdoms deep in the Fairylands. How does this fit in with the role of the Dwarves within  within Maximum Mayhem Dungeons#4 Vault of Dwarven King. written by Alan Chamberlain & Mark Taormino. The Dwarven kingdoms of the 'Ancient World' have held the line when it comes to protecting mankind long enough within thier view. 

"“The little poets sing of little things:

Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings;
Lovers who kissed and then were made as one,
And modest flowers waving in the sun.

The mighty poets write in blood and tears
And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears.
They reach their mad blind hands into the night,
To plumb abysses dead to human sight;
To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled,
Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world." 
Robert E. Howard.. 

The events seen within Maximum Mayhem Dungeons#4 Vault of Dwarven King are highly dangerous and very violetile in the Dwarven view. 

The Dwarven nations here are the more modern dwarves who have been trading with mankind for eons after the Norse and Germanic gods have put them into thier roles as the guardians and caretakers of mankind. This is something that the politics deep in   Autarch's By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization gets into. The Dwarven nations as abitors of the technologies of civilization and Law. 

Does this fit the ideals of a world of Sword & Sorcery?! Upon examination it does in so many ways. The magick of the world isn't dying but it is giving way to the newer orders of mankind. The world of the Ancients isn't giving up without a fight needless to say that Elemental Evil rulers are another form of Chaos just waiting to unleash themselves on the world. And where do the policies of mankind play into this?! Mankind in the Dwarven  view are fleeting at best and a nucience at worst. And this plays into the Fey approach seen in 

Castles & Crusades Codex Celtarum 2nd Printing.

You have divisions between the Fey Courts, the Dwarven nations, the European worshipers, and more. Not all of these interactions are going are going to be peaceful and at worst tinged by warfare. And this goes all the way back into a couple of cities that were mentioned in the 1980's Role Aids Dwarven book as far kingdoms and not well liked among the more 'modern' Dwarves of Fairyland.