The dwarven tongue is often spoken in a stern gruff tone. Dwarves are very proud of their language and will easily become upset if they suspect their language is being ridiculed in any way. If they come across something foreign they will fabricate a new word for it rather than borrow a word from another tongue. Dwarves have a great number of words to describe the quality, size and shape of rocks. The dwarven runic alphabet is preferably etched into stone. Dwarven runes do not contain any curved lines, making them shapeable with chisels. All dwarven runes are derived from the Borgin Rune, a set of lines that describes the basic cutting of a diamond. Somewhat simplified, a dwarven rune is a Borgin Rune with lines subtracted.