The first peaceful day

[Nephrite]

Moore has to wonder which part of this is true and which part is just legend. Or perhaps it's both?

He soldiers on, making mental notes of the pictures.

[Anastasia]

The engravings continue as you walk. They repeat the same idea several times and then they are overtaken - this time carvings of war. Of great battles beneath the earth, against huge, hulking things only glimpsed and suggested. Battle after battle shown, more and more. Over time these shift - to one single dwarf, clad utterly in the finest armor and wielding a warhammer, against some titanic...thing. Something never well defined, but the two do battle as you flutter along the river's path.

[Nephrite]

"Huh." Moore says as he walks past. He'll have to do some reading as to what this is supposed to represent!

[Anastasia]

Perceptionings, oh pixie.

[Nephrite]

Take 10 for 91! Afina's Perfect Vision and all that stuff.

[Anastasia]

You notice that a nearby image of a dwarf is beginning to move, coming out of the work that houses it.

[Nephrite]

It's not going to do him any good to run away, so he just stands his ground!

[Anastasia]

You do so.

The dwarf statue emerges and stretches, as if shaking off a long rest. "You there," it declares in dwarven, "Hold, go no further!"

[Nephrite]

"Greetings, honored ancestor of the dwarves." Moore greets it in dwarven himself.

[Anastasia]

"I'd expect you to be with the elves, not here," Is the answer you get, "But it's all sandstone and rubble now. If you want to go forward, you have you prove your might to me. No one unworthy of the legacy of dwarven heroes will go a single step beyond me.""

[Nephrite]

"I have a need to go forward." Moore says.

Can I have a K. ... I have no idea what is appropriate, maybe History? I'd like to try and see if "dwarven might" can be proved in ways other than punching a dude really hard.

[Anastasia]

K:H or K:R sure.

[Nephrite]

That would be Take 10 for 109 on K:R!

[Anastasia]

It really depends on the exact meaning, ceremony or significance of it. It's not really a unified term.

In other words, maybe. Depends on why and how and who is involved.

[Nephrite]

Moore takes in a breath. Hopefully this counts...

"I am not someone who can beat others in martial prowess." Moore says. "My might lies in my words -- in my ability to inspire hope and betterment in the world around me. I have been tasked with the simple matter of saving the world from the evils of the likes of Shar. My might is the bonds that I share with my friends that bolster me and let me in turn give them the power to change Creation itself. My might has brought me victories and glories against Hell, culminating in saving an entire world from them."