I think because dwarves fortress stuff I've seen, it's given my brain precedence to think about how dwarves work in my world and get a vibe for them easier.
I've got two types of dwarves so far, one sit themselves within Well Fortresses. The other fancy themselves great with architecture and design, creating splendid cities out of colored rocks and chiseling out murals, and epics in the halls to inspire their people of their past glory.-
The well dwarves is an idea I had of weylines, where dwarves understand how they work into the earth and create these large pit like structures to unearth them almost, or let it flow more freely. These dwarves well up from the skyline tangible magic and forge it into things like glyphs, magical items, or golems. Also nice idea of them being a selective type of dwarven race only magical type of class. Welling up magic from the earth to use in combat.-
Somethings I thought about them, is dwarves when it comes to death, they don't just bury and forget, they return to the stone almost. Books and papers can only hold exploits of dwarves for so long before a dwarves natural life would out live paper, so in death how are they immortalized? I've thought of dwarves willingly petrifying their dead in selective states, to return them to the stone.-
The architect dwarves, what they do is they create stone sarcophagus, or a base and then set the dead dwarf inside, sometimes with armor or clothing befitting them, and then petrifying or stonifying them into the sarcophagus, then creating these covers. Depending on your life you can get up to 3, that swing out, and on the inside are colored murals of the dwarves exploits, to honor them in death and to remind them in death of their life.-
Dyl of Possum