"Yes, I imagine you would. Anyway, regarding your other questions - I'm not sure how to describe what counts as stone, and I'm not sure what it would mean to know what we were sensing it with."

"You see with your eyes and hear with your ears..."

"Well, we don't have any extra parts that humans and elves and qunari don't, or at least if we do no one's found them yet. Maybe we sense it with our souls, which must be distinct from the other three kinds because they aren't naturally connected to the Fade...? And in fact are said to be connected to the Stone instead, somehow. Or maybe to lyrium."

"It sounds interesting. I wonder if there's a way to make a chip blessing for it, but probably not..."

"From my extremely limited understanding of how chips work at all, it seems like there wouldn't be... you'd need something to serve whatever function a dwarf's soul-or-whatever is serving in actually perceiving the stone around them, right? And it would be very hard to come up with something like that when we have no idea how Stonesense works in the first place."

"Not something to work exactly like yours, but something to sense stone - or maybe material in general - around us. Blessings can do some odd things - there's one that my friend Tyelcormo has that lets him talk to animals, although that took a lot of practice."

"...how does that work? I wouldn't have thought animals were the sort of thing that could talk - it'd seem like you'd need to do something to the animal, more than to the person trying to talk to them, to change that..."

"He doesn't talk to them in words. It took a lot of practice but he can get across some concepts by building up to them from basic things animals understand."

"So he sort of... thinks to animals?"

"Yes, almost how we think to each other."

"You think to each other?"

"The chips do it, it won't work with anyone here."

"That's a pity, I think I'd like being able to think to people."

"It's useful but Dwarves think it's overrated - I'm not sure what orcs think of it, it doesn't work for them."

"It just seems like it would make communication so much more efficient - imagine how much quicker I could've taught you the language..."

"It is very useful for translating. And sense impressions and memories and all kinds of things. It's called osanwë."

"Yeah, I could just show you what Stonesense is like... oh well. Maybe someday someone will figure something out. Actually, I can think of a few experiments but they're kind of roundabout and probably not worth it for day-to-day communication - there's a dwarven archival method called Shaping, where we imprint our memories directly into lyrium-infused stone, and then any other dwarf who accesses it can experience the memory themselves. But it's a specialized skill which I do not currently possess. And I have no idea whether the Memories are accessible to non-dwarves, or to people-not-from-this-world."

"Maiar and Valar can osanwë to orcs, whose chips don't have the feature - although not to Dwarves, they're outright immune - so they could bounce it, but there aren't any here. "

"Yeah. And if there were I think they'd be a little too busy to serve as mental messengers for a while."

"Some Maiar don't... really do things, or don't do major things. Some just sing all the time or are a dog."

"I could find a use for a dog, depending on the dog."

"He's taken."

"...hmm?"

"The Maia who is a dog belongs to my friend who talks to animals."

"Well, that seems like a very logical arrangement."