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Dragon Age: Origins Codex Database: Entry Details
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Life in Orzammar [Entry #136] |
| Category: Culture and History |
| Installation: Base Installation |
The dwarves of Orzammar are quite unlike those found in most human cities. Although Orzammar derives its vast wealth from trade with human kingdoms, all dwarves who come to the surface to trade are stripped of their position in society. Dwarven merchants are so ubiquitous in human cities that many people labor under the impression that all dwarves are merchants, or that their whole race worships coin and trade. But these surface dwarves are atypical creatures, the ones willing to give up all ties to their kin and sacrifice their rank in order to conduct business.
Below ground, the dwarves are a people obsessed with honor--their own, and that of their family. Most nobles incorporate chainmail even into formal gowns, because slights and insults often turn deadly.
They are a people who revere excellence and strive to achieve it in all things. Even members of the Servant Caste have been elevated to Paragons, usually posthumously, in recognition of remarkable service.
--From In Pursuit of Knowledge: The Travels of A Chantry Scholar, by Brother Genitivi. |
| Obtained: | | • Orzammar Commons (Janar Armorers) - Received upon inspection of wall carving |
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