I have a strange theory.
Remember how Belegar stated, about the Dwarf psyche, that stone doesn't heal? Perhaps that is the reason dwarfs die. Not that they are unhealable per se, but because they accumulate cracks and flaws until they break, with the standard length being 200 years. Anyone that has enough cracks to die faster does... as a slayer, from unnatural causes, so no one notices.
On the other hand, look at the immortal dwarfs: I admit, my sample size is small, but of the few I have seen, they ain't the kind of dwarfs that are "honor, duty and the dwarven way are a burden we must all bear no matter how it hurts us", but rather the kind of idgaf dwarfs that just do what they want, when they want, never ever giving a chance to circumstance to crack them. Yes, they do uphold duty and honour, but not as a burden, but rather as a privilege, and they do not let small things like betrayal or loss make them lose sight of that, and that seems to be the key difference here. When they are sad, they are sad at the situation, and they may want to change it, but its never directed inwards, always outwards, because they know they will and are doing their best.
That, if true, means 1 very important thing and 1 thing
@Omegahugger is not gonna like. Starting from the second, it means necromacy is gonna be useless. But the first, the important one... if we could find a way to semi reliably heal their psyche, we'd have a race of much longer liiving indivinduals, maybe even immortals.
