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   * **Religious Tolerance** - All dwarves are aware of the different origin stories of Moradin and Torag, and while there was some tension in the early days this has been resolved over the years.  Priests of the two faiths asked their respective deities for guidance, although none has been forthcoming yet.  In the absence of any divine instruction to start a war, the two communities co-exist peacefully.  However, Dwarves who worship the evil deities, associated with either pantheon, are generally shunned by all right-thinking dwarves.
-  * **Burial Customs** - Dwarves see death as a transition.  The soul has gone, and the empty shell is left, but that creates a problem - what do you do with a decomposing body?  On the surface, there is lots of space to bury people, or follow other funerary customs, but underground space is limited however, a practical solution must still be found.  Mine-hold funerary customs reflect that.  Priests have a spell that speeds decomposition, and the body is buried in the fungus caves - with all proper ceremony.  Six months later, the bones are disinterred, and placed in a crypt.  The crypt is often a series of tunnels with niches, for an urn containing the bones with the skull placed in front.  The tunnel network is extended regularly so that there is plenty of space for new ‘burials’ with each niche cut in the six months that the body is in the ground. Niches are maintained regularly by the priest's acolytes.  This practice is common across both faiths and, perhaps, helped the two set of priests reach a compromise.
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