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[darkgloomie]

You can verify in the raws that Stosbubespo translates to Hategift. Turns out I've had a cannibal locked up in my zoo the whole time! Now, what to do with her?

Looks like !!Science!! has to be performed.

I wonder, will she eat a fresh dwarf corpse if you were to free her? This requires testing.

I say release her in a pit and throw children or peasent after her. Possibly from a height high enough to kill them, unless dwarfplosion occurs. Other options is to send the kid through a danger corridor leading to her "chambers" (possibly with a set of floodgates to prevent either from escaping the pit), since children aren't really resistant to danger room.

Or simply chuck them in the same room and hope the child/peasant doesn't get a lucky shot.

Though, now that I think of it, do invaders even need food?

[itg]

Invaders don't normally eat, but I guess I can't totally rule out some sort of special attack. Maybe it counts as devouring if she kills a dwarf by biting off a part? I think I'll lock her up with some children and see what happens. If she somehow dies, well, death by child execution squad is a pretty solid punishment.

[darkgloomie]

Invaders don't normally eat, but I guess I can't totally rule out some sort of special attack. Maybe it counts as devouring if she kills a dwarf by biting off a part? I think I'll lock her up with some children and see what happens. If she somehow dies, well, death by child execution squad is a pretty solid punishment.

Wait, since the engravings say that she devoured them in a battle that happened in your fort, can you check if the body of the devoured dwarf is still around somewhere?

If not, "special attack" covers it.

[itg]

It happened during worldgen, before my fort existed. I just noticed the title of the battle was the same in both engravings. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

It may be that devouring a creature in battle is only possible in worldgen. But either way, I want to give this particular dwarf "special treatment." I'm thinking of exposing her to syndrome dust and putting her back in the zoo.

[GreatWyrmGold]

My guess is vampire.

Vampires drain blood, they don't eat people.
My guess was that he's a member of a goblin or elven civ. Maybe kobold. It was elves, of course.
Devouring is a special worldgen action that elves and maybe kobolds/goblins do to their defeated enemies.

[darkgloomie]

It's a shame it's not implemented in Dwarf mode

Think of how much it'd make cleaning easier!

[Hammerstar]

From memory here, since I'm not on my own computer right now, but I'm fairly sure goblins are okay with eating sapients.

Elves will only eat sapients that they kill in battle, whereas goblins are okay with it regardless of the source, IIRC.