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So I wonder... are the dwarves like the qunari when it comes to one's job?

That is, would a dwarf from the warrior caste be allowed to pursue nug wrangling?

Sifr!  You made it!  Atrast vala!

I'd love that to be referenced.  Over in the blanketfort there's people wanting it to be Solas' dying words.

In Orzammar, you're limited by what's appropriate to your caste if you don't want to lose caste (or worse, it's clear in the Brosca origin that caste violations is a crime.) On the surface, of course, technically it doesn't matter. But clearly a lot of people still keep to caste lines on the surface for whatever reason...

I admit, I tended to play Andrastrian Cadashes myself for several reasons. But the Cadash origin is open enough to have believable reasons to still believe in the Ancestors and the Stone. You could have been born in Orzammar and exiled to the surface and adopted the Cadash name later, or one of your parents might have been an exile. That's recent, and honestly, people tend to cling to a family religion for tradition's sake if nothing else. And I can see some dwarves clinging to the Stone just because they don't want to accept the marginal place they have in the Chantry or just because they find humans insufferable

Yeah, on one of my play through, I told Josephine that I believe in the stone. Jump some time ahead to Descent, Cadash will still say the line about not been close to the stone and all of that. I love the Cadash name and history, so I prefer that I was at least born into that family with the name . I'm sad that Shale wasn't able to meet Inquisitor Cadash.  But, yeah I see your point. All these humans are crazy with their chantry. 

Nothing against them as far as I know. I think most of us have used color in our tattoos, going back into DAO...

The casteless mark is a brand, not a tattoo. There's a difference, one which doesn't matter to a Cadash unless you headcannon her or him as being born in Dusttown. The surface merchant in the commons during the Brosca origin has a temporary mark he drew on because the surface casteless aren't branded. But an Orzammar-born casteless dwarf could still have it tattooed over later in color as a way of thumbing their noses at the Shaperate, especially the Carta. The actual facial tattoos seem to be something unrelated, and a lot of us speculate that they have more to do with indicating you belong to a group of some kind. They didn't actually show any non-Dalish NPCs in DAO with colored tattoos, but we also didn't see many other facial markings except the casteless brands and Legion of the Dead tattoos, which are presumably uniformly black because they're dead. I suspect they just did the minimum in DAO (I can't recall any humans or non-dalish elves with facial tattoos in DAO except Crows, and Rylen's fairly distinctive even in DAI for having facial tattoos.) But there's definitely nothing in lore yet excluding colored facial tattoos for dwarves.

If its the brand tattoo, you could even headcanon it to be your dwarf having the Brand reinked in color and kinda "claiming" it on their own terms in doing so.


I think maybe some of the Chasind in Lothering also had them?

Did they? Maybe I missed it or just didn't pay attention, but that would be another example of belonging to a "group" I think. Now I need to go look

I definitely hope we'll meet a small lady dwarf with a burning hatred of birds.

Well... might not have Shale's voice, if she is a dwarf again.