Dwarven Husbandry

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The relationship the Gildenfolk share with their belongings - be those belongings animal, servitor, or inanimate in nature - is complicated and often misunderstood. This misunderstanding runs especially deep among human- and halfling-kind, who have a weakness for small "cute" mammals, and so who are often mortified by the Dwarven penchant for making food and hide out of anything. To the Dwarven mind, often practical and legalistic, it is not some intangible factor like "cuteness" that determines sacrosanctness, but rather "naming." Indeed, an ill-prepared visitor to Gilden lands might find anything from rat to cat to bat in his stewpot or as a bedsheet, while some Dwarves grow deep attachments to any manner of inexplicable creatures: cows, turtles, or whathaveyou. Generally speaking, when a dwarf takes a pet - of any type - it is given a name and a specially forged collar, and is treated kindly by all dwarves, often including burial rituals, even should the pet outlive the master. However, those dwarves not taken as pets are generally regarded as fair game for butchery, foodstores, and industry. Thankfully for Dwarven/Halfling relations, Dogs are generally *not* used as food, but are rather trained as war animals.

Dwarves, however, generally find the human and halfling distinction between "pet-type animals" and "food-type animals" bafflingly arbitrary and illogical.

Trivia

• Germain wears a +kitten leather cloak+ of dwarven make, which helped save him during a harsh winter trek