N°2 Fur (a little) and N°7 Pebble for the Design.A.Dwarrowdam Challenge of @helplessavacado
WARNING WARNING WARNING : I mention child's death and blood.
I present to you : Pebble. Because she hasn't been name yet by her parents, my Ocs Parar and Jrié, Mother and Father of the Firebeard Clan. Why ?
Because in the Firebeard Clan, a child isn't named until their 6th birthday in order to protect them. From whom ? From Aulë himself. They believe that by not having a name of their own, it is harder for "Aulë to call them back to him" and thus prevent the death of the infant (I think here to the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or Crib Death which happen in real life). So until the 6th birthday, every baby dwarf is a Pebble and is named like that.
She belongs to the first generation of dwarves Parar and Jrié birthed and so she helped them to build the Firebeard Kingdom alongside her brothers and sisters. She took the "teeny tiny smol bean" side of the Firebeard, thanks to her father being the tiniest of the Seven Dwarves Aulë created.
The Outside of the Mountains Outfit
Here she wears her "Outside of the moutains Outfit". It's a very large cloak with a large hood. It is very rare for children dwarves, especially the first generation, to go outside the mountains, but when they do, they wear this and are EXTREMLEY forbidden to remove it for three reasons :
1: It is a coat that has no sleeves but has openings at the front for the hands and has fur on the hood. Keep maximum warmth.
2: because the entire inside is lined with chain mail, protecting the child in case of sudden attack. It's a tiny armor but a comfortable one.
3: The bottom of the coat has embroideries on it which give informations about : the age, which clan the child belong to, their rank, food they need (Can they eat solid food yet ? Can they eat humans food or only dwarven food ? Do they have allergy ?) , which language they can speak (Are they mute ? Can they speak Iglishmek already ? Do they understand some humans languages like Westron ?). Very useful if lost in dwarven land.
I have to admit, I didn't have too much inspiration for this one, but here, Pebble wears leather gloves and a leather apron to protect herself for the fire. All children are required to have their hair styled as high as possible, often in a bun, to avoid any burning incident and clothes are as near the skin as possible too. Beard must be kept in braid.
The Tunnel Exploration Outfit
This is the outfit with the most layers on it to protect from the coldness of the deep parts of the mountains. They can styled their hair like they want but they must keep a braid that indicates their age by the number of knots on it. It's very important for others dwarves to know, based on her age, in which tunnels she is allowed to go or not in case she lost her way and is found by others dwarves. She also has a glowing stone on her foreheard to light her steps, much better than using torches. The outfit mostly consist of fur with a little cape, one tunic with short sleeves and one tunic with long sleeves, pants and boots. All with lining fur. On her waist she has a rope, a safe way to avoid knots and to not lost it. Gloves aren't allowed because it prevent children to learn how to recognize rocks when they touch it so she wears mittens.
Depending of their ages, Firebeard children spend their time either with their Mother at the forge or with their father in the tunnels.
-of to start a fire and how to keep it burning, how to extinguish it, how to treats burns
-how to recognize which material is best to use depending of the forging project
-geometry, engraving, sculpting
-what food to eat and how to prepare it (food that keeps you hydrated, unlike what is eaten in the tunnels, where food must contain more protein and be hot to combat the cold)
-building various tools, from weapons to kitchen utensils.
-to know where to dig, to recognize precious stones and how to extract them
-safety measures in case of heartquake, landslide, how to find their way if lost, how to extract someone from a rockfall
-how to swim in the lake underground (Firebeards are the only clan where dwarves know to swim from a young age)
-what food to eat when digging
I'm trying to do a comic about this Pebble, about how she wants to learn how to write and how, since the Firebeard Clan have an oral culture, she must go and travel to the Broadbeam Kingdom to learn this craft. She likes the forge and she likes digging but the sound of pickaxe and hammer is too over overwhelming and make it hard for her to do both. She has a little breakdown as some point in the forge because how can she forge anything if the sound is too much and how can she be a Firebeard if she can't forge or dig ? After some reassurance from Parar, Pebble choose to learn the craft of Writing.
This is her royal outfit (for now because I will change it) that she wear when she goes to the Broadbeam Kingdom to make her demand to Mirelm and Barkhem (my others Ocs Queen and King of the Broadbeam) to be take as a scribe apprentice. The braid that indicates her age is styled to be as much visible as possible and her "skirt" is embroided with stones she dug herself. The most important thing is the makeup on her face which is made to look like a flame...and which is made of blood and coal. This make up is made for battlefield or diplomatic meetings (which are kind of a battlefield in their own way). Usually the blood used is the dwarf's blood but until the age of 6, parents do the makeup and use their own blood and not the child's. It's only after the 6th birthday that children use their own blood for their make up.
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