Regarding the war between Ulthuan and the Karaz Ankor, the name for it used by humans is usually the War of the Ancients. Mathilde typically uses the War of Vengeance from her exposure to Dwarven thinking, but I'm sure she's slipped up and referred to it as the War of the Beard at least once in her internal monologue. It's a very memorable name.
It's much less of a thing these days but it used to be extremely common for names within Europe, especially when studying history. Columbus, Magellan, Calvin, Homer, and pretty much every Roman to name a few. I don't think it would be as much of a thing within the Warhammer setting since there's no equivalent of Rome and Latin that everyone's drawing on for inherited authority and shared history. Maybe the Empire and Bretonnia would do it to each other, as might Tilea and Estalia.
Above all, Dwarves are predictable. As long as you know where the minefields are, you just have to not go into them and you'll be fine. Trouble starts when humans assume the way they think is the rational way to think and project that onto the Dwarves, like assuming they'd threaten and grumble but wouldn't really go to war over being deliberately shortchanged and told to pound sand when they complained. Like Belegar said to Eike: "Humans may bluff and bluster, but Longbeards don't. Listen when they speak and you won't go far wrong."
The Colleges have a collection of Scrolls of Binding that might descend from that same tradition.
That sort of thing is a component in a lot of very old magical and religious traditions. It's especially a thing in matters concerning the moon since a lot of cultures thought the menses and the moon were linked, which is why the two words share an etymology. But I agree it would take a very deft hand to handle it well for a modern audience.
This is a view I agree with, but it is a very modern one. Dulce et decorum est, and all that jazz. Though I'm not super familiar with it, my understanding of the Greco-Persian Wars especially highlights this: when Persian ambassadors were killed in Sparta (some might recognize this as the famous "THIS IS SPARTA" scene in 300), Sparta sent two of their own noblemen to Persia to be executed to even the scales. Not even to avoid war as the war still happened, but just because fucking with Ambassadors was not the done thing and it needed to be atoned for.
(Athens killed Persian ambassadors at around the same time too, but made no attempt to atone. Athenian philosophy might be seen as foundational to modern morality by some but they weren't huge on practicing what they preached in that regard, just ask Melos.)
It's much less of a thing these days but it used to be extremely common for names within Europe, especially when studying history. Columbus, Magellan, Calvin, Homer, and pretty much every Roman to name a few. I don't think it would be as much of a thing within the Warhammer setting since there's no equivalent of Rome and Latin that everyone's drawing on for inherited authority and shared history. Maybe the Empire and Bretonnia would do it to each other, as might Tilea and Estalia.
Above all, Dwarves are predictable. As long as you know where the minefields are, you just have to not go into them and you'll be fine. Trouble starts when humans assume the way they think is the rational way to think and project that onto the Dwarves, like assuming they'd threaten and grumble but wouldn't really go to war over being deliberately shortchanged and told to pound sand when they complained. Like Belegar said to Eike: "Humans may bluff and bluster, but Longbeards don't. Listen when they speak and you won't go far wrong."
The Colleges have a collection of Scrolls of Binding that might descend from that same tradition.
That sort of thing is a component in a lot of very old magical and religious traditions. It's especially a thing in matters concerning the moon since a lot of cultures thought the menses and the moon were linked, which is why the two words share an etymology. But I agree it would take a very deft hand to handle it well for a modern audience.
This is a view I agree with, but it is a very modern one. Dulce et decorum est, and all that jazz. Though I'm not super familiar with it, my understanding of the Greco-Persian Wars especially highlights this: when Persian ambassadors were killed in Sparta (some might recognize this as the famous "THIS IS SPARTA" scene in 300), Sparta sent two of their own noblemen to Persia to be executed to even the scales. Not even to avoid war as the war still happened, but just because fucking with Ambassadors was not the done thing and it needed to be atoned for.
(Athens killed Persian ambassadors at around the same time too, but made no attempt to atone. Athenian philosophy might be seen as foundational to modern morality by some but they weren't huge on practicing what they preached in that regard, just ask Melos.)
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