From the release post

You might remember me saying that I was not sure if I would work on Dwarves.

But you know, in the end, we're making Heroes infinite for YOU, and you asked us for Dwarves. Repeatedly.

In fact, when we were starting to plan the Summer and Fall releases back in May, we ran a poll to ask you your wishes for the coming months, and many of you, more than ever before, asked for Fantasy Dwarves.

So I decided to finally take the plunge on a subject I had never tackled before!

An ambitious desire…

As I always do, I began by going back to your feedback and I saw that Arcanepunk had been a recurring ask that kept on growing throughout the past year.

And as I was looking for a unique angle for our Heroes Infinite Dwarves, I thought: “This is it! Let’s give some of our Dwarves a touch of Arcanepunk.”

But while I was working on this Fantasy Dwarves project, after all the concept work had already been done for the release and sculpts were coming in, we ran another poll to find out what you wanted for the upcoming Winter season. And among the over 900 answers we received, many of you said: Sci-Fi Dwarves!

And so, suddenly, I was like: “Aggghhh, can I make all of that work together at once?”

We worked on that very hard. We developed super cool concepts, and even a few early sculpts.

But we had to face the truth: it was way too much for us to try and output inside a single month… So we shifted our focus back to give you the best possible Arcanepunk Fantasy Dwarves that we could.

And there you have it: the first chapter of the Dwarves story at Heroes Infinite / Raging Heroes.

For now, they are these proud, strong and extremely ingenious Fantasy Dwarves.

But the future of these guys now rests on your shoulders! Will you want to see Dwarves in a Sci-fi version? Or will you want more of the Arcanepunk ones? As always, please tell us in the comments below!

Challenges make the best stories:

How does a team that usually creates lithe dancer-like models create small strong-bodied dwarves and still keep the style that our customers love?

This is the question we asked each other, and everyone came up with sketches and ideas to make this release a success.

We looked at some of our previous releases from both the Heroes Infinite and Raging Heroes lines. Doing this definitely helped when adding our own spin on Dwarves.

One thing was very clear to us: there are not enough Dwarves female characters in this world!

“Hell hath no fury…”

All along the work I did on that release, I had this saying in my head: “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. I know this saying usually refers to a woman who has been romantically betrayed. But I thought that this idea of the power of women’s wrath was a perfect inspiration for our dwarven female fighters!

Also, I thought about having some of them use massive magically powered powerfists: slamming down adversaries who have done them any kind of wrong is a great way to express that you should not try to play them, or else…

I also really like the Ram Forge Spirit. It perfectly blends two core ideas of this entire project: taking the raw force of nature and totemic animals and combining it with the ultimate expression of dwarven brilliance! This results in an incredible piece of Arcanepunk technology designed and brought to life by the Dwarves' Engineers, Mechanics, Warsmiths and Alchemists.