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What is less well known is the dwarvish skill at farming -- mushrooms, glow-worms for lanterns, underground jellies which feed on water and slime -- all manner of underground delicacies are created deep below the earth (though it seems only dwarves actually find them palatable).
Alcohol forms a massive part of dwarvish culture, but not as many know it.
They use it primarily for light or cooking, as it gives less smoke than other fuels.
Dwarves, they say, can ferment anything -- living oozes, fungi, goblins.
All live underground eventually converts to light.%
\footnote{If it lives, it can die. When it dies, it rots. If it rots, you can burn it.}
Commonly, dwarvish tunnels to the outside will end in a gnome-warren. Direct contact with the outside world, opening into a forest or plain, is seen as `letting the sun in', and generally frowned upon, but if the dwarvish tunnel ends in a gnomish village and those gnomes happen to let the sun in, well -- that's their business.
This persistent crossing of paths means that the dwarvish and gnomish languages are very similar, and patient speakers of one can mostly understand the other.
