poplitealqueen:

Imagine Nain Lord of the Iron Hills with a Longbeard father who embraced the doctrines of the Eastern Dwarves because of his Blacklock wife.

Imagine mixed race dwarf Nain with scrimshawed hair and a mind that switches with ease between the Khuzdul dialects of the west and east.

Imagine Nain who traveled the Orocarni in his youth alongside his mother. Who took note of the inventions and styles and people they had there.

Imagine jovial Nain laughing at those of his kin who warned him to be wary of his mother’s people. Laughing because they don’t understand how stupid they sound.

Imagine inventive Nain drawing up plans for those twirling death lances in the BOTFA ee. Do I headcanon that he invented those because of a type of fishing spear he saw used in the canals of the Blacklock capital?

Hell. Fucking. yeah.

Imagine Dain being cut off from that influence too soon when his father passes at Azanulbizar. 

Imagine Dain having to figure out where he fits after that.

Now cry.