Raccoon 🏳️‍🌈 :unverified:<p>For anyone wondering, that word I keep using when I talk about my <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fantasy</span></a> setting, &quot;<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Dwerg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dwerg</span></a>&quot;, is the Norse word which Tolkien repurposed as &quot;Dwarf&quot; when he was writing about the <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Dwarves" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dwarves</span></a>. I feel like it&#39;s good to shift away from a word which is associated in more modern contexts with &quot;dwarfism&quot;. I&#39;m not writing about people with dwarfism, I&#39;m writing about dwergs, a fictional sub-species of humans.</p>