Barrowdork · Player's Cultural Guide

The Naming Stone

"The stone remembers." — fill each recess, and it will carve you a name.

The stone is blank. Strike it to carve a name.

Three dwarves in four across the Rushmoors are hill dwarves out of Dūnby — Flintbristle, Gravelthorn, Hillborn and the lesser families who came after. The old hold Houses are the rarer sight.

Carve it yourself Stock, line, family, byname, and how the name closes

1 · Stock — two peoples, two ways of being named

Hill — the Rushmoors

Mountain — the holds

2 · Line — which forename table

Male

Female

3 · Forename — build one from parts, or take a known name

Forename comes from

Prefix

Suffix

4 · Family — hill dwarves carry a plain surname, not a House

Clan

Flintbristle, Gravelthorn and Hillborn answered the Margrave's call in 881 and dug the canals. They aren't the only hill dwarf families — only the three that got quarters named after them.

5 · Byname — optional; earned, not chosen

This dwarf has earned a byname

6 · Standing — hill dwarves close on work, not blood

Where they live

And they're known as

The Standing Stone lists the original work crew, and new residents add their marks below the founders. Only the three founding clans were on it to begin with.