Editing Fyreslayers (section)

==Where da Fyreslayer Women at?==
{{topquote|I mean it Bael. This could be the one. Your true heir. I had a dream. Grimnir told me as much...|Grunhilda to Bael-Grimnir after giving birth to his daughter.}}

As with all [[dwarf]] races to come out of [[Games Workshop]], we don't know very much about the presence of their women. We know they ''exist'', and we know they have to be pretty fertile, since a Runefather can have ''dozens'' of sons, but that's pretty much the extent of canon information. Aside from this obvious implication that fyreslayer women are veritable [[Skaven|broodmothers]] compared to the dwarf women of the World-That-Was, they have appeared in very bit-part mentions in canon. One Fyreslayer battle report in [[White Dwarf]] has framing fiction of the Runefather interacting with his pregnant wife before he leaves to fight the battle, and the returning to find she's given birth to a daughter, which doesn't displease him.

It's possible that Fyreslayers have lost both the overabundance of males and cripplingly long gestation periods that made Malus dwarves a dying race, and it's purely cultural values that keeps their womenfolk largely out of sight and off of the battlefield.

There is a recent notable exception to the standard Patriarchal system to the Fyreslayers introduced in the 3rd edition battletome, however. The current Runefather of the Hermdar Lodge, Kalmar-Grimnir appointed his Runedaughter, Bruja Brightaxe, to be his heir, rather than what would traditionally be given to one of his older Runesons, making her the first potential canon Runemother in the setting. This choice was made primarily because of Brujas's savviness and diplomatic mind that help to maintain the worldview Hermdar maintains that differentiates itself from other lodges, mainly it's willingness to uphold oaths and contracts more on the basis of honor and justice, rather than on solely the relentless pursuit of Ur-Gold to restore Grimnir.

As well, the Runefather mentioned above whose wife gave birth to a daughter, Bael-Grimnir of the Vostarg Lodge, is known to be notoriously difficult to please. So much so that, despite having sired over FIFTY Runesons throughout his long life, he refused to name any of them as his heir. However, shortly after the Necroquake was unleashed, Bael's Hearthwife Grunhilda gave birth to a daughter, while also having a vision that this new Runedaughter would finally be the one worthy enough to inherit the rule of Vostarg.