: What about the barbacan anyway? What exactly is it? From
: what I can tell, it is some kind of undergound thing
: which the Dwarves were able to build and collapse in
: upon themselves to prevent outside influence from
: coming in, like how a bomb shelter undergound is:
: keeping people underground in a chamber until the
: radiation goes away.
A barbican is the innermost defense, like a really big tower or wall, before the actualy gates. What they did was collapse that over the entrance of Stonehiem. Also the words "entombing" make me feel like they died down there. They'd rather kill themselves than let the ghols have both cities.
: King Albrecht is most likely the new King of the Dwarves
: after Balin was able to free Myrgard (and likely
: Stoneheim as well). My interpretation of the poacher
: flavor text is that Albrecht was presented with the
: new invention of the blunderbuss and saw how utterly
: deadly it was saying, "Such a thing would make
: war too terrible to wage," as visible in the same
: text. In the other poacher flavor text, it says how a
: group of inscrupulous men got their hands on the
: blunderbusses via an equally inscrupulous group of
: Dwarves. King Albrecht probably had tried to suppress
: the invention of the fire arm as much as possible
: after discovering so it would get into the wrong hands
: or actually be used in war, making it as truly
: terrible as it is today in reality. Then, word of
: mouth in the black trading market might have gotten to
: Jimbo, Biff, Joe Bob, Hank, Remus, Billy Joe, Cletus,
: Bobby Joe, and Joey Bill about these knew kind of
: weapon which could revolutionize "huntin' fer
: sport." So, they paid these filthy Dwarves a fair
: sum to gain access to the new weapons. Then we see
: "A Long Awaited Drinking Party."
I'd think that he simply kept the dwarven invention around. A couple of merc dwarves got ahold of a prototype and duplicated it, then sold them for a buncha cash.
The dwarves don't use them 'cause they've got bad eyesight. The morter dorfs are the only ones with far vision and they're trained for morters as soon as the dwarves realise that a baby's exibiting those signs. If only the dorfs invented glasses....
: Basically, King Albrecht likely did not take the office
: until after the Great War. Also, they'd always have to
: stay in their city walls to live since the Ghôls would
: often come and attack unprotected villiages at any
: convenience.
I suspect that there's dwarven towns that aren't Myrgard or stoneheim, but these would be very well fortified and probably not too far from thier "parent" cities.
-Disc
