"Stop right there!" Kurdran Wildhammer darted over, trying to hold the Bronzebeard Dwarf back.
"No, no, no, look at this, Kurdran!" Brann Bronzebeard hurriedly stood up, pointed at the statue before him, and shouted, "Calm down... take a good look at what this is!"
Kurdran lowered his head and glanced at the statue.
In that instant, he froze.
"Wait... why do I feel..." the Wildhammer Dwarf murmured.
"Exactly!" A faint smile appeared on Bryan's lips. "Doesn't this statue look very much like us Dwarves?"
"It... does!" Kurdran nodded, then lowered his head again to examine the statue closely.
Just as Bryan had said, the statue, made of rock, looked almost exactly like a Dwarf.
"Could... Dwarves have come here before and carved this statue?" Kurdran frowned and asked in confusion.
"Look up ahead, Kurdran!" Bryan pointed forward.
Following his gesture, Kurdran was astonished to see nearly a thousand such statues arranged in neat rows throughout the hall. There were not only statues that closely resembled Dwarves, but also another, smaller kind, much like the Gnomes of Gnomeregan.
"This..." Kurdran's mouth fell open, and he was speechless.
Work on such a scale would probably have taken thousands of Dwarves to complete... but what was the point of carving so many statues like these? Besides, there was no account of anyone ever setting foot here in Dwarven history.
"One thing is certain!" Bryan's expression grew serious. "Judging by my years of exploration experience and everything we saw earlier, these Titan Ruins showed no signs of any previous intrusion. They were completely intact..."
"So these statues are at least tens of thousands of years old! They may well have been created by the Titans themselves when they left our world."
"That... how is that possible!" Kurdran shook his head repeatedly. "Our Dwarven history