Ilphyl can talk as they work, without slowing down too much.
"That sounds like dwarfs. The Durin, I mean. Or many gnomes." Ilphyl said. "Neither of those have sun-blindness, unless you count the duergar. Dwarves whose ancestors were deliberately altered. But, there's a lot of sorts of people where I'm from. Some of the same kinds as the Empire, like humans and elves. They live on the surface."
"But... I don't know if this place has a lot of caves, but my world does. They go miles down, and are laced with old magic. We call it the Underdark. Some people are native to there, like myconids. Those are mushroom-people. But my ancestors ended up there because of our sun-blindness. There's a few stories about how we got that, but it was thousands of years ago."
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Date: 2024-09-10 03:19 am (UTC)"That sounds like dwarfs. The Durin, I mean. Or many gnomes." Ilphyl said. "Neither of those have sun-blindness, unless you count the duergar. Dwarves whose ancestors were deliberately altered. But, there's a lot of sorts of people where I'm from. Some of the same kinds as the Empire, like humans and elves. They live on the surface."
"But... I don't know if this place has a lot of caves, but my world does. They go miles down, and are laced with old magic. We call it the Underdark. Some people are native to there, like myconids. Those are mushroom-people. But my ancestors ended up there because of our sun-blindness. There's a few stories about how we got that, but it was thousands of years ago."