Editing Valaya (section)

==[[Age of Sigmar]]==
In AoS, female Dwarfs (now called "Duardin") are entirely unmentioned and are only implied to exist by mention of marriage and fathers.

While Grimnir (<s>now [[Gotrek & Felix|Gotrek]]</s> nope, still the first Grimnir. Gotrek is his own dwarf and hates Grimnir's guts now) and Grungni survived and formed the new pantheon, no Valaya or Valaya replacement is mentioned. She HAS "appeared" because she is represented with a mighty statue in Barak Thrying, the most conservative port of the Kharadrons. So at least her legacy lives on.

Fittingly the common Dwarf is without a home of their own, with only the [[Kharadron Overlords]] and Grimnir's Fyreslayers having Holds. The rest of the race are called Dispossessed and dwell with [[Sigmar]] or are scattered. Also fittingly, reference to alcohol in AoS is very rare and Dwarfs have apparently replaced their lust for [[alcohol]] with a far more obsessive lust for gold.

So remember that while there's evidence of AoS becoming more gender and race inclusive, Dwarf women got [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WomenInRefrigerators Fridged].

Until the Fyreslayers Battletome appeared. It reinforced the Tolkien trend that Dwarf women are much rarer than Dwarf men, so as a result while Fyerslayer women filled vital roles, these were nearly all non-combat roles and despite women being valued the Fyreslayers are patriarchal.

Things became more equal-opportunity as the lore for the Kharadron Overlords was expanded beyond their first edition codex. As of 2020 the Kharadron are far more gender equal. Several pictures of female Duardin are shown in leadership positions in the tome. Also the Black Library Novel [https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/code-of-the-skies-ebook-2019.html Code of the Skies] stars a lady Admiral as the main protagonist. Further mention of Kharadron women are made in other aeronautical novels, suggesting a more balanced gender ratio. Which makes sense, since 1/10 Duradin being female would mean that the average woman would have to have 10 children just to keep the stunty population STABLE, and that's assuming all those children live to adulthood and don't die to standard Warhammer violence.