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Why is Lance an Ageless if he is a Dvergr?
I ask this question for a decently important reason. It was established in Season 1, in the Silvermine Mountains campaign, that Dvergrs could not become ageless. Rob himself said this. So why was Lance made into an ageless when it should not be possible? Was the lore on this topic changed? If so why didn't, and hasn't, Rob addressed it? The easiest answer would be to say that Lance isn't a Dvergr but that wouldn't make sense since both Bruce and Virendra, his parents, were both Dvergrs.This just really bugs me and I hope Rob or someone else involved with the show comments to explain this because I can't stop thinking about it.

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Bopen was recently revealed this campaign to be a god, "it was a god that killed virgo sunsword" so most likely the restriction of Dvergrs not becoming ageless doesn't apply to him.
I guess it depends on genetics(magenetics?).
Dwarves crafted from stone are Dvergrs, while dwarves born from other dwarves are not.
it's also possible his upbringing had something to do with it. It looks like he may have been in some way raised by Douglas and Salazar, so it's possible some aspects of them carried over to him, including the fleshy skin.
or the constant use of a basketball, idk.
Are we sure that Lance? And not a pretender? How hard would it be to switch babies?
What if Douglass lost the original lance and replaced it with a dwarf baby?
And the real Lance is lost inside a painting somewhere, being feed silver till this day!
Easier(ish) answer: If I'm not going insane and/or losing my memory (both of which are possible), Rawb said there were not Dwarves in existence at the start of the S3 Finale, only Dvergr Dvergrs (aside from Douglass "I'm not from this show" Winechester). Obviously, Dwarves came about some way, and Rawb said it was probably as an off shoot of the original Dwarf/Dverg Dverg race. Lance happened to have a mutation or something that made him a Dwarf, becoming either the progenitor or a Dwarf that somehow just broke the rules of evolution and differentiated into a whole new race in one generation. Either theory (BopenDoingBopenThings or DwarvenEvolutionIsWeird) has... difficulties, but could both be the core of a plausible explanation Rawb might give to wave away the problem.
if lance was a dverg then I believe this is the most likely explanation.
And most importantly:
Can they puke on rocks to make other Dvergrs a la Porcs and pigs. (I kid, I kid, though I am curiou of their reproductive process if have baby-making makes baby Dwarves that aren't Dvergrs)
EDIT: Just had a thought! Maybe Dvergr Dvergr are made when two Dvergr Dvergr climax into stone form and that creates Dvergr Dvergr babies! Dvergr Dvergr literally have to get rock hard!
PS: Bad luck for Lance. He's a mere second generation Dwarf, the child of two of the original Dvergr Dwarves, and he ended up being a regular Dwarf and thus not immune to being made Ageless.
Alternatively... Hmm... It's also possible that Dvergr-ness is sex-linked, like color blindness. Bruce has a Y-Chromosome and an X-Chromosome without the gene, while Virandra has one with the gene and one without. It would still be a 25% chance (If Bruce is XY and Virandra is Xx, then the possible children are (XX, Xx, YX, and Yx)), but it would make it so that female Dvergrs are more common (as a "Soft" female would have to have a "Soft" father and a mother who is either a softie or is a Dvergr that is a carrier for the gene.
I doubt most of this matters though, as we are applying IRL genetics to URealms, where at least one race was created on accident by Thor after a hard night of partying (The Porcs being created by a pig being vomited on by Thor), possibly more (I wouldn't be surprised if the first Form was a tree he took a piss on), and the race we are debating about was spontaneously created from stone via divine intervention. So, who knows if actual genetics works in URealms, let alone the Dwarves.
Edit: Finished the comment after accidentally posting.
Also, I thought this thead died a while ago. Serves me right for not checking the forums very often.