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THE
LIBRARIANS
NOMLI
AND VOMLI
URCHAEEN |
The
Plain Dwarves Nomli UrchaEnn (155 b.S.–23
a.S.), later called DishunHtuu (Thergerim
DishunHtuu,
"Incomplete-Knowledge") and Vomli UrchaEnn (155
b.S.–102 a.S.), later called
ZinHthom (Thergerim
ZinHthom,
"Sharp-Head") were brothers and founders of
“Nomli's Kavogerim Library” and “Vomli's School of Sandlife”. They lived their
entire life together on the continent of
Nybelmar.
Nomli and Vomli were born into a rich family but
didn’t go in their father's footsteps.
Instead they left home and founded a library and a school in one of the
biggest Holtyrs (a Holtyr is a village or a compound
in the dessert with walls around the houses, called HolHunds).
With them they initially had their inheritance:
some money, two burrow
bachiks and about twenty books and parchments.
At Vomli's death the library contained over four
thousand books and were the largest building of the Holtyr.
Till this day Nomli's Kavogerim Library
is one of the largest
dwarf-owned libraries on Nybelmar.
Appearance.
Both brothers were short even for dwarves,
Nomli about two nailsbreadths taller. They had grey hair and beards and for
those who do not know their nature they are very hard to separate. The only way
was to look at their eyes.
Nomli, the older one of them, by five minutes, had light blue eyes that people
described as searching and inquiring. Vomli's eyes were dark brown and people
found them friendly and tended to open their heart to him easily.
Unlike most dwarves their hands were not hard
and rough. They did not work in mines and smithies but amongst books in a
library. At their death friends to them noticed that their hands looked almost
fragile. Under the coats their bodies were thin for
dwarves, but still more sturdy than
humans.
One thing about them made other dwarves
cautious. They did not wear the traditional Har-Eh (Thergerim
Har-Eh), a sort of veil the
dwarves
use to cover their faces, mainly because they did not believe in the Hunyeh
Hthom, the Plain Dwarves
version of TolBarol or
Urtengor, as much as they believed in
knowledge. Therefore you could always see their grey beards moving as they
walked around talking to one another.
Vomli was given a staff by their grandmother at their 90th birthday. He carried
that around for the rest of his life, which also become a distinguishing mark
for him.
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Biography.
The UrchaEnns had been clanleaders for generations and when Feroli became
pregnant the father, Ormli, saw no reason to suspect anything else than that a
new leader would be born soon. But Feroli gave birth to twins and the proud
father named them Nomli and Vomli. He was sure that one of them would become the
new leader.
During the first years he saw his sons grow up to nice-looking
dwarves. It was at 25 years of age that the
parents started to suspect that the brothers weren’t the great leaders they’d
hoped. They didn’t want to hunt
burrow
bachiks with the other young
dwarves. Instead they stayed home. Nomli read
every book in the Holtyr while Vomli's thirst for hearing stories never seemed
to be stilled. After his death Vomli's favourite expression was carved into the
wall of his school. It read "If people want to tell you something, and you’ll
listen, then you’ll learn."
At the age of 90 (65 b.S) Nomli and Vomli were old enough to find a woman and
leave their home. They left home, together, without any women. For their entire
life they never got married.
After some time wandering they ended up in the largest Holtyr in the area. They
chose an open space still inside the walls and started to build their dream, the
library. Like most dwarves, they did not rush
things but took their time and made it a good work. During the years, as they
got more books, they had to expand the library further and further under the
sand. Beside the library they placed their HolHund.
When the dwarves had bought or had been given
every book in the Holtyr, about twohundred and fifty books, Nomli started to
travel to other Holtyrs and one time even as far as Kormendale (see
Korweyn) to buy books. His
main interest were non-fiction books, of which he wrote many himself.
Because of the fact that the Plain
Dwarves serve as guides to caravans, lots of
different people came to the Holtyr. Vomli always tried to talk with as many of
them as possible and he made some good friends among the writers and librarians
in both Lhindal (see Ehebion) and Kormendale
(see Korweyn). Many of them he met only once, but he was a
frequent writer of letters. From his friends both books and donations came
often.
Nomli on the other hand always inquired if they had any books for sale. He seemed more interested
in getting more books than reading them.
In 21 b.S. Vomli started building a school next to the library. The two
buildings were later connected by a tunnel. Nomli then took charge of the
library and he wrote more books himself. His most famous books were “Bachik for
life” which was a book about burrow
bachiks, “Whining of Winds”, a
book about the weather in the region and “Sand, sand and there is life”, a book
about farming in the desert.
Vomli wrote too, but mostly novels and stories for the children. His most famous
story was “King Gorsand and the Dragon”.
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Importance.
The brothers are nor the most important persons in
Kavogerims history, but
they are important persons for the history. They were the first
dwarves to start tracking down family-trees
and ancestors as well as gathering information about the tribe itself. No
dwarf in the continent even had the idea to
build a library as big as they built. If the brothers had not existed many old
stories would have been forgotten.
Their writings also became important to the
dwarves in areas like military, farming and housing. The school also helped
many dwarves learn the
Thergerim language. Vomli
chose his teachers carefully and they kept teaching in his spirit long after his
death.
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