Quote Originally Posted by 137ben View Post
Also, Rubyrock's explanation that the Council of Clans still exists, but is not the current Dwarven government makes it sound (to me, anyhow) like the Council of Clans has existed continuously since Dvalin was mortal, which precludes him being a holdover from a previous world, but I suppose it's possible that a previous world also had a dwarven council of clans.
I can't recall if it's confirmed or just implied, but I took that to mean the former. Dvalin is probably from this world.
Not all gods make it through the interim period, so a demigod is less likely to have survived. Especially since the last batch of Northerners were apparently quite different from this one.